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Deuteronomy 5:31 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 5 · verse 31
But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.Deuteronomy 5:31 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 5:31 in context
29O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
30Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
31But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
32Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
33Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- commandmentsmitsvâha command, whether human or divineH4687 →
- judgmentsmishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
- statuteschôqan enactmentH2706 →
- standʻâmadto stand, in various relationsH5975 →
- speakdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- teachlâmadproperly, to goadH3925 →
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Here, I. Moses reminds them of the agreement of both the parties that were now treating, in the mediation of Moses. 1. Here is the consternation that the people were put into by that extreme terror with which the law was given. They owned that they could not bear it any more: "This great fire will consume us;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 23-33