1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."
All the commandment which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.
That they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise Yah!
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
But the children rebelled against me; they didn't walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
You have commanded your precepts, That we should fully obey them.
You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.'"
in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.
What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
"Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.
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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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