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Deuteronomy 6:17

You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has commanded you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Diligence;   Obedience;   Watchfulness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   Commandments;   Keep;   Testimonies;   The Topic Concordance - Obedience;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Diligence;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Frontlets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Phylacteries ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cuttings in the Flesh;   Diligence;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ceremonies and the Ceremonial Law;  

Parallel Translations

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.
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.
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.
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.
New Century Version
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.
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.
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.
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,
Legacy Standard Bible
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
Complete Jewish Bible
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.
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.
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.
Good News Translation
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.
Literal Translation
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,
American Standard Version
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Bible in Basic English
Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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,
Update Bible Version
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.
World English Bible
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.
New Living Translation
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.
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.
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;
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
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.

Contextual Overview

17You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has commanded you.18Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land which the LORD your God swore to give your fathers, 19driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said. 20In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?" 21then you are to tell him, "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household, 23but He brought us from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers. 24And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we might always prosper and be preserved, as we are this day. 25And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God just as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 6:3
So the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years."
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and afterward as well, when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:7
So the LORD said, "I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth-every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air-for I am grieved that I have made them."
Genesis 6:12
And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
Genesis 6:13
Then God said to Noah, "The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
Genesis 6:20
Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
Genesis 6:21
You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals."
Genesis 6:22
So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.

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.


 
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