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Deuteronomy 6:17
Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;
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Hebrew Names Version
You shall diligently keep the mitzvot of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
You shall diligently keep the mitzvot of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
King James Version
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Lexham English Bible
You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and his legal provisions and his rules that he has commanded you.
You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and his legal provisions and his rules that he has commanded you.
English Standard Version
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
New Century Version
Be sure to obey the commands of the Lord your God and the rules and laws he has given you.
Be sure to obey the commands of the Lord your God and the rules and laws he has given you.
New English Translation
Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.
Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.
Amplified Bible
"You shall diligently keep [foremost in your thoughts and actively do] the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you.
"You shall diligently keep [foremost in your thoughts and actively do] the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you.
New American Standard Bible
"You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His provisions and His statutes which He has commanded you.
"You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His provisions and His statutes which He has commanded you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But ye shal keepe diligently the commandements of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee,
But ye shal keepe diligently the commandements of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee,
Legacy Standard Bible
You should diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you.
You should diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you.
Contemporary English Version
Always obey the laws that the Lord has given you
Always obey the laws that the Lord has given you
Complete Jewish Bible
Observe diligently the mitzvot of Adonai your God, and his instructions and laws which he has given you.
Observe diligently the mitzvot of Adonai your God, and his instructions and laws which he has given you.
Darby Translation
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
You must be sure to obey the commands of the Lord your God. You must follow all the teachings and laws he has given you.
You must be sure to obey the commands of the Lord your God. You must follow all the teachings and laws he has given you.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
Good News Translation
Be sure that you obey all the laws that he has given you.
Be sure that you obey all the laws that he has given you.
Christian Standard Bible®
Carefully observe the commands of the Lord your God, the decrees and statutes he has commanded you.
Carefully observe the commands of the Lord your God, the decrees and statutes he has commanded you.
Literal Translation
Keeping you shall keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.
Keeping you shall keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but kepe the commaundementes of the LORDE yor God, and his witnesses, & his ordinaunces, which he hath commaunded the,
but kepe the commaundementes of the LORDE yor God, and his witnesses, & his ordinaunces, which he hath commaunded the,
American Standard Version
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But you shall diligently kepe the commaundementes of the Lord your God, & his testimonies, and his ordinaunces which he hath commaunded thee:
But you shall diligently kepe the commaundementes of the Lord your God, & his testimonies, and his ordinaunces which he hath commaunded thee:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes, which He hath commanded thee.
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes, which He hath commanded thee.
King James Version (1611)
You shall diligently keepe the Commandements of the Lord your God, and his Testimonies, and his Statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
You shall diligently keepe the Commandements of the Lord your God, and his Testimonies, and his Statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt by all means keep the commands of the Lord thy God, the testimonies, and the ordinances, which he commanded thee.
Thou shalt by all means keep the commands of the Lord thy God, the testimonies, and the ordinances, which he commanded thee.
English Revised Version
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Berean Standard Bible
You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has commanded you.
You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has commanded you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Kepe thou the comaundementis of thi Lord God, and the witnessyngis, and cerymonyes, whiche he comaundide to thee;
Kepe thou the comaundementis of thi Lord God, and the witnessyngis, and cerymonyes, whiche he comaundide to thee;
Young's Literal Translation
ye do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee,
ye do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee,
Update Bible Version
You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
World English Bible
You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
New King James Version
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.
New Living Translation
You must diligently obey the commands of the Lord your God—all the laws and decrees he has given you.
You must diligently obey the commands of the Lord your God—all the laws and decrees he has given you.
New Life Bible
Be careful to keep all the Laws which the Lord your God has told you.
Be careful to keep all the Laws which the Lord your God has told you.
New Revised Standard
You must diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his decrees, and his statutes that he has commanded you.
You must diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his decrees, and his statutes that he has commanded you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye shall, keep, the commandments of Yahweh your God and his testimonies and his statutes which he hath commanded thee;
Ye shall, keep, the commandments of Yahweh your God and his testimonies and his statutes which he hath commanded thee;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and ceremonies which he hath commanded thee.
Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies and ceremonies which he hath commanded thee.
Revised Standard Version
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You should diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you.
"You should diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you.
Contextual Overview
17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you; 18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers, 19 To send out from before you all those who are against you. 20 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you? 21 Then you will say to your son, We were servants under Pharaoh's yoke in Egypt; and the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand: 22 And the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt, and against Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes: 23 And he took us out from that place, guiding us here to give us this land, as he said in his oath to our fathers. 24 And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day. 25 And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.
Bible Verse Review
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Deuteronomy 6:1, Deuteronomy 6:2, Deuteronomy 11:13, Deuteronomy 11:22, Exodus 15:26, Psalms 119:4, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Titus 3:8, Hebrews 6:11, 2 Peter 1:5-10, 2 Peter 3:14
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:45 - These Deuteronomy 26:16 - keep Joshua 22:5 - take 2 Kings 17:15 - testimonies 2 Chronicles 30:8 - serve Psalms 119:2 - keep
Cross-References
Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:4
There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.
There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.
Genesis 6:7
And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.
And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.
Genesis 6:12
And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.
And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.
Genesis 6:13
And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.
And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.
Genesis 6:20
Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.
Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.
Genesis 6:21
And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.
And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.
Genesis 6:22
And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.
And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God,.... Not only the ten commands, but all others:
and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee; those of a judicial and ceremonial kind.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger;
(1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and
(2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors.
The former error Moses strives to guard against in the verses before us; the latter in Deuteronomy 7:1-11.
Deuteronomy 6:13
The command “to swear by His Name” is not inconsistent with the Lord’s injunction Matthew 5:34, “Swear not at all.” Moses refers to legal swearing, our Lord to swearing in common conversation. It is not the purpose of Moses to encourage the practice of taking oaths, but to forbid that, when taken, they should be taken in any other name than that of Israel’s God. The oath involves an invocation of Deity, and so a solemn recognition of Him whose Name is made use of in it. Hence, it comes especially within the scope of the commandment Moses is enforcing.
Deuteronomy 6:25
It shall be our righteousness - i. e., God will esteem us as righteous and deal with us accordingly. From the very beginning made Moses the whole righteousness of the Law to depend entirely on a right state of the heart, in one word, upon faith.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Deuteronomy 6:17. Ye shall diligently keep, &c. — On this and the following verse Deuteronomy 6:3; Deuteronomy 6:3.
