1 And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.
Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.
So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.
So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.
They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.
Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.
But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.
You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.
You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.
In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.
Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.
And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them.
And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?
So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.
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Commentary on Deuteronomy 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
In this chapter we have,
Deu 4:1-40
This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper heads, for we cannot divide it into paragraphs.
Now let all these arguments be laid together, and then say whether religion has not reason on its side. None cast off the government of their God but those that have first abandoned the understanding of a man.
Deu 4:41-49
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