Deuteronomy 4:1 “Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to f…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them, that you may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.

American Standard Version

And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, giveth you.

Geneva Bible 1599

Nowe therefore hearken, O Israel, vnto the ordinances and to the lawes which I teache you to doe, that ye may liue and goe in, and possesse the lande, which the Lord God of your fathers giueth you.

Darby Translation

And now, Israel, hearken to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do [them], that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers giveth you.

Young's Literal Translation

'And now, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving to you.

Bible in Basic English

And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

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Cross references

“unto the statutes”

Deuteronomy 8:1 Deuteronomy 5:1 Leviticus 22:31 Deuteronomy 4:8 Deuteronomy 4:45 Deuteronomy 11:1

Deuteronomy 8:1 · BSB

You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

Deuteronomy 5:1 · BSB

Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.

Leviticus 22:31 · BSB

You are to keep My commandments and practice them. I am the LORD.

Deuteronomy 4:8 · BSB

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

Deuteronomy 4:45 · BSB

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

Deuteronomy 11:1 · BSB

You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

“that ye may”

Romans 10:5 Ezekiel 20:11 Leviticus 18:5 Ezekiel 20:21

Romans 10:5 · BSB

For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Ezekiel 20:11 · BSB

And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.

Leviticus 18:5 · BSB

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

Ezekiel 20:21 · BSB

But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My…

Also

Deuteronomy 30:16 Deuteronomy 30:19 Deuteronomy 5:33–6:2 Deuteronomy 16:20

Deuteronomy 30:16 · BSB

For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land tha…

Deuteronomy 30:19 · BSB

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

Deuteronomy 5:33–6:2 · BSB

You 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.

Deuteronomy 16:20 · BSB

Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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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