Deuteronomy 26:16

This day LORD thy God commands thee to do these statutes and ordinances. Thou shall therefore keep and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

In Context

15Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the ground which thou have given us, as thou swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

17Thou have avouched LORD this day to be thy God, and that thou would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and hearken to his voice.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:29But from there ye shall seek LORD thy God. And thou shall find him when thou search after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

Deuteronomy 6:5And thou shall love LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Deuteronomy 8:2And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

Deuteronomy 11:1Therefore thou shall love LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

Deuteronomy 12:1These are the statutes and the ordinances which ye shall observe to do in the land which LORD, the God of thy fathers, has given thee to possess it all the days that ye live upon the earth.

Deuteronomy 13:3thou shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams, for LORD your God proves you, to know whether ye love LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 26:13-16

Appropriation of Tithes. ( b. c. 1451.) 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 13 Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all… Read the whole commentary →

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