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Wycliffe Bible

Deuteronomy 4:44

This is the lawe which Moises `settide forth bifor the sones of Israel,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Law;   Thompson Chain Reference - Lawgiver;   The Topic Concordance - Law;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Beth-Peor;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Law;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Polytheism;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Education;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
This is the law which Moshe set before the children of Yisra'el:
King James Version
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Lexham English Bible
Now this is the law that Moses set before the Israelites;
English Standard Version
This is the law that Moses set before the people of Israel.
New Century Version
These are the teachings Moses gave to the people of Israel.
New English Translation
This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.
Amplified Bible
This is the law which Moses placed before the sons of Israel;
New American Standard Bible
Now this is the Law which Moses set before the sons of Israel;
Geneva Bible (1587)
So this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel;
Contemporary English Version
Moses said, "People of Israel, you must set aside the following three towns east of the Jordan River as Safe Towns: Bezer in the desert highlands belonging to the Reuben tribe; Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gad tribe; and Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manasseh tribe. If you kill a neighbor without meaning to, and if you had not been angry with that person, you can run to one of these towns and find safety." The Israelites had come from Egypt and were camped east of the Jordan River near Beth-Peor, when Moses gave these laws and teachings. The land around their camp had once belonged to King Sihon of Heshbon. But Moses and the Israelites defeated him
Complete Jewish Bible
This is the Torah which Moshe placed before the people of Isra'el —
Darby Translation
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Easy-to-Read Version
Moses gave God's law to the Israelites.
George Lamsa Translation
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;
Good News Translation
Moses gave God's laws and teachings to the people of Israel.
Christian Standard Bible®
This is the law Moses gave the Israelites.
Literal Translation
And this is the Law which Moses set before the sons of Israel;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is the lawe which Moses layed before the children of Israel:
American Standard Version
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Bible in Basic English
This is the law which Moses put before the children of Israel:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so this is the lawe which Moyses set before the children of Israel:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;
King James Version (1611)
And this is the Law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
English Revised Version
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Berean Standard Bible
This is the law Moses set before the Israelites.
Young's Literal Translation
And this [is] the law which Moses hath set before the sons of Israel;
Update Bible Version
And this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel:
Webster's Bible Translation
And this [is] the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
World English Bible
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
New King James Version
Now this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
New Living Translation
This is the body of instruction that Moses presented to the Israelites.
New Life Bible
This is the Law which Moses gave to the children of Israel.
New Revised Standard
This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, then is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel:
Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the law, that Moses set before the children of Israel,
Revised Standard Version
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;
THE MESSAGE
This is the Revelation that Moses presented to the People of Israel. These are the testimonies, the rules and regulations Moses spoke to the People of Israel after their exodus from Egypt and arrival on the east side of the Jordan in the valley near Beth Peor. It was the country of Sihon king of the Amorites who ruled from Heshbon. Moses and the People of Israel fought and beat him after they left Egypt and took his land. They also took the land of Og king of Bashan. The two Amorite kings held the country on the east of the Jordan from Aroer on the bank of the Brook Arnon as far north as Mount Siyon, that is, Mount Hermon, all the Arabah plain east of the Jordan, and as far south as the Sea of the Arabah (the Dead Sea) beneath the slopes of Mount Pisgah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel;

Contextual Overview

41 Thanne Moises departide thre citees biyende Jordan at the eest coost, 42 that he fle to tho, that sleeth his neighbore not wilfuli, and was not enemy bifore oon and `the tother dai, and that he mai fle to summe of these citees; 43 Bosor in the wildirnesse, which is set in the feeldi lond, of the lynage of Ruben; and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the lynage of Gad; and Golan in Basan, which is in the lynage of Manasses. 44 This is the lawe which Moises `settide forth bifor the sones of Israel, 45 and these ben the witnessyngis, and cerymonyes, and domes, whiche he spak to the sones of Israel, whanne thei yeden out of Egipt, 46 biyende Jordan, in the valey ayens the temple of Phegor, in the lond of Seon, kyng of Ammorreis, that dwellide in Esebon, whom Moises killide. And the sones of Israel yeden out of Egipt, and weldiden `the lond of him, 47 and the lond of Og, kyng of Basan, twei kyngis of Ammoreis, that weren biyende Jordan, at the rysyng of the sunne; 48 fro Aroer which is set on the brenke of the stronde of Arnon, `til to the hil of Seon, which is Hermon; 49 thei weldiden al the pleyn biyende Jordan, at the eest coost, `til to the see of wildirnesse, and `til to the rootis of the hil of Phasga.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

This is evidently an introduction to the discourse of the subsequent chapters. Moses having practically improved some particulars in the history of Israel, proceeded to repeat and enforce the laws which he had delivered before, with additions and explanations, beginning with the ten commandments. Deuteronomy 1:5, Deuteronomy 17:18, Deuteronomy 17:19, Deuteronomy 27:3, Deuteronomy 27:8, Deuteronomy 27:26, Deuteronomy 33:4, Leviticus 27:34, Numbers 36:13, Malachi 4:4, John 1:17

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:37 - the statutes Jeremiah 26:4 - which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel. Not the law concerning the cities of refuge, but the law of the ten commands repeated in the following chapter; so Jarchi remarks,

"this which he should set in order after this section;''

as he does in the next chapter, where he repeats in order the ten precepts, and makes observations on the manner of the delivery of them, and urges obedience to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses would be more properly assigned to the next chapter. They are intended to serve as the announcement and introduction of the address now to be commenced. Deuteronomy 4:44 gives a kind of general title to the whole of the weighty address, including in fact the central part and substance of the book, which now follows in 22 chapters, divided into two groups:

(a) Deut. 5–11,

(b) Deut. 12–26.

The address was delivered when they had already received the first-fruits of those promises Deuteronomy 4:46, the full fruition of which was to be consequent on their fulfillment of that covenant now again about to be rehearsed to them in its leading features.

Deuteronomy 4:48

Sion must not be confounded with Zion (compare Psalms 48:2.).


 
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