Deuteronomy 8:1
All the commandment which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do; in order that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord hath sworn unto your fathers.
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Deuteronomy 1:8Behold, I have given up the land before you: go in and take possession of the land which the Lord hath sworn unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it unto them and to their seed after them.
Deuteronomy 5:32(5:29) Observe ye then to do as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.
Deuteronomy 8:18But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God; for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth; in order that he might fulfill his covenant which he hath sworn unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 8:1
Moses had charged parents in teaching their children to whet the word of God upon them ( ch. vi. 7 ) by frequent repetition of the same things over and over again; and here he himself takes the same method of instructing the Israelites as his children, frequently inculcating the same precepts and cautions, with the same motives or arguments to enforce them, that what they heard so often might abide with them. In this chapter Moses gives them, I. General exhortations to obedience, ver. 1 , 6 . II. A review of the… Read the whole commentary →