Deuteronomy 8:1

Ye shall observe to do all the commands which I charge you today, that ye may live and be multiplied, and enter in and inherit the land, which the Lord your God swore to give to your fathers.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.

In Context

2And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and that the things in thy heart might be made manifest, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:8Behold, God has delivered the land before you; go in and inherit the land, which I swore to your fathers, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to them and to their seed after them.

Deuteronomy 5:32And ye shall take heed to do as the Lord thy God commanded thee; ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left,

Deuteronomy 8:18But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, that he gives thee strength to get wealth; even that he may establish his covenant, which the Lord swore to thy fathers, as at 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 →

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