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Deuteronomy 6:17

Be careful to keep all the Laws which the Lord your God has told 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.
Berean Standard Bible
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;
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 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

17 Be careful to keep all the Laws which the Lord your God has told you. 18 Do what is right and good in the eyes of the Lord. Then it will be well with you. And you may go in and take the good land for your own which the Lord promised to give to your fathers. 19 You will drive out of your way all who hate you, as the Lord has promised. 20 "In time to come your son will ask you, ‘What do all the Laws mean which the Lord told you?' 21 Then say to your son, ‘We were servants of Pharaoh in Egypt. But the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand. 22 The Lord showed us great and powerful works against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all those of his house. 23 The Lord brought us out from there to bring us into the land He had promised to our fathers.' 24 So the Lord told us to do all these Laws and to fear the Lord our God for our good always, as it is today. 25 We will be right with the Lord our God if we are careful to obey all of the Law before Him, just as He told us.

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 made man from the dust of the ground. And He breathed into his nose the breath of life. Man became a living being.
Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not stay in man forever, for he is flesh. But yet he will live for 120 years."
Genesis 6:4
Very large men were on the earth in those days, and later also, when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, who gave birth to their children. These were the powerful men of long ago, men of much strength.
Genesis 6:7
So the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have made from the land, man and animals, things that move upon the earth and birds of the sky. For I am sorry that I have made them."
Genesis 6:12
God looked at the earth and saw how sinful it was. For all who lived on the earth had become sinful in their ways.
Genesis 6:13
Then God said to Noah, "I have decided to make an end to all the people on the earth. They are the cause of very much trouble. See, I will destroy them as I destroy the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make a large boat of gopher wood for yourself. Build rooms in the boat. And cover it inside and out with tar.
Genesis 6:20
Two of all the kinds of birds, and animals, and every thing that moves on the ground are to be with you to keep them alive.
Genesis 6:21
And take with you every kind of food that is eaten, and store it. It will be food for you and for them."
Genesis 6:22
Noah did just what God told him to do.

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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