Deuteronomy 7:11

THE MESSAGE

So keep the command and the rules and regulations that I command you today. Do them.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall therefore keep the mitzvah, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

King James Version
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Lexham English Bible
And so you shall keep the commandment and the rules and the regulations that I am commanding you today to observe them.

English Standard Version
You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.

New Century Version
So be careful to obey the commands, rules, and laws I give you today.

New English Translation
So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.

Amplified Bible
"Therefore, you shall keep (follow, obey) the commandment and the statutes and judgments (precepts) which I am commanding you today.

New American Standard Bible
"Therefore, you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Keepe thou therefore the commaundements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which I commaund thee this day to doe them.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Contemporary English Version
So be sure to obey his laws and teachings I am giving you today.

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, you are to keep the mitzvot, laws and rulings which I am giving you today, and obey them. Haftarah Va'etchanan: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 40:1–26 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Va'etchanan: Mattityahu (Matthew) 4:1–11; 22:33–40; Mark 12:28–34; Luke 4:1–13; 10:25–37; Acts 13:13–43; Romans 3:27–31; 1 Timothy 2:4–6; Ya‘akov (James) 2:14–26; and all the readings for Parashah 17 "Because you are listening to these rulings, keeping and obeying them, Adonai your God will keep with you the covenant and mercy that he swore to your ancestors. He will love you, bless you and increase your numbers; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground — your grain, wine, olive oil and the young of your cattle and sheep — in the land he swore to your ancestors that he would give you. You will be blessed more than all other peoples; there will not be a sterile male or female among you, and the same with your livestock. Adonai will remove all illness from you — he will not afflict you with any of Egypt's dreadful diseases, which you have known; instead, he will lay them on those who hate you. You are to devour all the peoples that Adonai your God hands over to you — show them no pity, and do not serve their gods, because that will become a trap for you. If you think to yourselves, ‘These nations outnumber us; how can we dispossess them?' nevertheless, you are not to be afraid of them; you are to remember well what Adonai your God did to Pharaoh and all of Egypt — the great ordeals which you yourself saw, and the signs, wonders, strong hand and outstretched arm by which Adonai your God brought you out. Adonai will do the same to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. Moreover, Adonai your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left and those who hide themselves perish ahead of you. You are not to be frightened of them, because Adonai your God is there with you, a God great and fearsome. Adonai your God will expel those nations ahead of you little by little; you can't put an end to them all at once, or the wild animals will become too numerous for you. Nevertheless, Adonai your God will give them over to you, sending one disaster after another upon them until they have been destroyed. He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their name from under heaven; none of them will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. You are to burn up completely the carved statues of their gods. Don't be greedy for the silver or gold on them; don't take it with you, or you will be trapped by it; for it is abhorrent to Adonai your God. Don't bring something abhorrent into your house, or you will share in the curse that is on it; instead, you are to detest it completely, loathe it utterly; for it is set apart for destruction.

Darby Translation
And thou shalt keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Easy-to-Read Version
So you must be careful to obey the commands, laws, and rules that I give you today.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall therefore keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which I command you this day, and do them.

Good News Translation
Now then, obey what you have been taught; obey all the laws that I have given you today.

Christian Standard Bible®
So keep the command—the statutes and ordinances—that I am giving you to follow today.

Literal Translation
And you shall keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Kepe now therfore the commaundementes, and ordinaunces and lawes, which I commaunde the this daye, that thou do therafter.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Bible in Basic English
So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Kepe thou therfore the commaundementes, and ordinaunces, and lawes, which I commaunde thee this day, that thou do them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt therefore keepe the Commandements, and the Statutes, and the Iudgements, which I command thee this day, to doe them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt keep therefore the commands, and the ordinances, and these judgments, which I command thee this day to do.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Berean Standard Bible
So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor kepe thou the comaundementis, and cerymonyes, and domes, whiche Y comaunde to thee to dai, that thou do.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding thee to-day to do them.

Update Bible Version
You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

World English Bible
You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

New King James Version
Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

New Living Translation
Therefore, you must obey all these commands, decrees, and regulations I am giving you today.

New Life Bible
So keep and obey all the Laws I am telling you today.

New Revised Standard
Therefore, observe diligently the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that I am commanding you today.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shalt thou keep the commandment and the statutes and the regulations, which I am commanding thee to-day, to do them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I command thee this day to do.

Revised Standard Version
You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Contextual Overview

¹When God , your God, brings you into the country that you are about to enter and take over, he will clear out the superpowers that were there before you: the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Those seven nations are all bigger and stronger than you are. God , your God, will turn them over to you and you will conquer them. You must completely destroy them, offering them up as a holy destruction to God . Don't make a treaty with them. Don't let them off in any way. ³Don't marry them: Don't give your daughters to their sons and don't take their daughters for your sons—before you know it they'd involve you in worshiping their gods, and God would explode in anger, putting a quick end to you. ⁵ Here's what you are to do: Tear apart their altars stone by stone, smash their phallic pillars, chop down their sex-and-religion Asherah groves, set fire to their carved god-images. ⁶ Do this because you are a people set apart as holy to God , your God. God , your God, chose you out of all the people on Earth for himself as a cherished, personal treasure. ⁷ God wasn't attracted to you and didn't choose you because you were big and important—the fact is, there was almost nothing to you. He did it out of sheer love, keeping the promise he made to your ancestors. God stepped in and mightily bought you back out of that world of slavery, freed you from the iron grip of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know this: God , your God, is God indeed, a God you can depend upon. He keeps his covenant of loyal love with those who love him and observe his commandments for a thousand generations. But he also pays back those who hate him, pays them the wages of death; he isn't slow to pay them off—those who hate him, he pays right on time. ¹¹ So keep the command and the rules and regulations that I command you today. Do them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 5:32, John 14:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:20 - teach

Cross-References

Genesis 6:17
"I'm going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction.

Genesis 7:5
Noah did everything God commanded him.

Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth. Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood. Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. In seven days the floodwaters came.

Genesis 7:11
It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open. Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:24
The floodwaters took over for 150 days.

2 Kings 7:2
The attendant on whom the king leaned for support said to the Holy Man, "You expect us to believe that? Trapdoors opening in the sky and food tumbling out?" "You'll watch it with your own eyes," he said, "but you will not eat so much as a mouthful!"

Isaiah 24:19
The Landscape Will Be a Moonscape Danger ahead! God 's about to ravish the earth and leave it in ruins, Rip everything out by the roots and send everyone scurrying: priests and laypeople alike, owners and workers alike, celebrities and nobodies alike, buyers and sellers alike, bankers and beggars alike, the haves and have-nots alike. The landscape will be a moonscape, totally wasted. And why? Because God says so. He's issued the orders. The earth turns gaunt and gray, the world silent and sad, sky and land lifeless, colorless. Earth is polluted by its very own people, who have broken its laws, Disrupted its order, violated the sacred and eternal covenant. Therefore a curse, like a cancer, ravages the earth. Its people pay the price of their sacrilege. They dwindle away, dying out one by one. No more wine, no more vineyards, no more songs or singers. The laughter of castanets is gone, the shouts of celebrants, gone, the laughter of fiddles, gone. No more parties with toasts of champagne. Serious drinkers gag on their drinks. The chaotic cities are unlivable. Anarchy reigns. Every house is boarded up, condemned. People riot in the streets for wine, but the good times are gone forever— no more joy for this old world. The city is dead and deserted, bulldozed into piles of rubble. That's the way it will be on this earth. This is the fate of all nations: An olive tree shaken clean of its olives, a grapevine picked clean of its grapes. But there are some who will break into glad song. Out of the west they'll shout of God 's majesty. Yes, from the east God 's glory will ascend. Every island of the sea Will broadcast God 's fame, the fame of the God of Israel. From the four winds and the seven seas we hear the singing: "All praise to the Righteous One!" But I said, "That's all well and good for somebody, but all I can see is doom, doom, and more doom." All of them at one another's throats, yes, all of them at one another's throats. Terror and pits and booby traps are everywhere, whoever you are. If you run from the terror, you'll fall into the pit. If you climb out of the pit, you'll get caught in the trap. Chaos pours out of the skies. The foundations of earth are crumbling. Earth is smashed to pieces, earth is ripped to shreds, earth is wobbling out of control, Earth staggers like a drunk, sways like a shack in a high wind. Its piled-up sins are too much for it. It collapses and won't get up again. That's when God will call on the carpet rebel powers in the skies and Rebel kings on earth. They'll be rounded up like prisoners in a jail, Corralled and locked up in a jail, and then sentenced and put to hard labor. Shamefaced moon will cower, humiliated, red-faced sun will skulk, disgraced, Because God -of-the-Angel-Armies will take over, ruling from Mount Zion and Jerusalem, Splendid and glorious before all his leaders.

Ezekiel 26:19
"The Message of God , the Master: ‘When I turn you into a wasted city, a city empty of people, a ghost town, and when I bring up the great ocean deeps and cover you, then I'll push you down among those who go to the grave, the long, long dead. I'll make you live there, in the grave in old ruins, with the buried dead. You'll never see the land of the living again. I'll introduce you to the terrors of death and that'll be the end of you. They'll send out search parties for you, but you'll never be found. Decree of God , the Master.'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments,.... The laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, urged thereunto both by promises and threatenings, in hopes of reward, and through fear of punishment:

which I command thee this day, to do them; in the name of the Lord, and by his authority; by virtue of which he made a new declaration of them to put them in mind of them in order to observe them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Deuteronomy 6:10 note.

Deuteronomy 7:5

Their groves - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is to the wooden trunk used as a representation of Ashtaroth; see Deuteronomy 7:13 and Exodus 34:13 note.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The fewest of all people - God chose for Himself Israel, when as yet but a single family, or rather a single person, Abraham; though there were already numerous nations and powerful kingdoms in the earth. Increase Deuteronomy 1:10; Deuteronomy 10:22 had taken place because of the very blessing of God spoken of in Deuteronomy 7:8.

Deuteronomy 7:10

Repayeth them that hate him to their face - i. e., punishes His enemies in their own proper persons.