Deuteronomy 4:1

Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, 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 must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:37You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”

Leviticus 22:31You are to keep My commandments and practice them. I am the LORD.

Deuteronomy 4:8And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

Deuteronomy 4:45These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 5:33You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.

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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