Deuteronomy 4:1

People of Israel, pay attention to the rules and regulations I'm teaching you to observe. That way you can stay alive, and go in and take over the country the Lord, the God of your forefathers, is giving you.

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In The King James Version

Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

In Context

2You are not to add to or take away from what I'm telling you, so that you can keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I'm ordering you to follow.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:5If you keep my rules and do what I tell you, you will live. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:37Keep all my rules and regulations, and make sure you follow them. I am the Lord.”

Leviticus 22:31Keep my rules and put them into practice. I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:8What nation is as great as us, having such good rules and regulations like all these laws that I'm placing before you today?

Deuteronomy 4:45These are the laws, rules, and regulations Moses gave them after they had come out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 5:33Follow all the ways the Lord your God has shown you, so that you do well and live long lives in the country that you will occupy.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:1

In this chapter we have, I. A most earnest and pathetic exhortation to obedience, both in general, and in some particular instances, backed with a great variety of very pressing arguments, repeated again and again, and set before them in the most moving and affectionate manner imaginable, ver. 1-40 . II. The appointing of the cities of refuge on that side Jordan, ver. 41-43 . III. The particular description of the place where Moses delivered the following repetition of the law, ver. 44 , &c. Read the whole commentary →

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