Deuteronomy 12:1
These are the statutes and the ordinances, which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Deuteronomy 3:18And I commanded you at that time, saying: 'The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it; ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the men of valour.
Deuteronomy 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land whither ye go in to possess it.
Deuteronomy 4:19and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.
Deuteronomy 5:1And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them.
Deuteronomy 12:19Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land.
Job 7:1Is there not a time of service to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 12:1
Moses at this chapter comes to the particular statues which he had to give in charge to Israel, and he begins with those which relate to the worship of God, and particularly those which explain the second commandment, about which God is in a special manner jealous. I. They must utterly destroy all relics and remains of idolatry, ver. 1-3 . II. They must keep close to the tabernacle, ver. 4, 5 . The former precept was intended to prevent all false worship, the latter to preserve the worship God had instituted. By… Read the whole commentary →