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Deuteronomy 27:1

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Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all the commandments I am giving you today.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.

KJV

And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 27

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Moses in a third discourse Deut. 27–30, proceeds more specifically to dwell upon the sanctions of the Law. In these chapters he sets before Israel in striking and elaborate detail the blessings which would ensue upon faithfulness to the covenant, and the curses which disobedience would involve.

This site's exposition

And Moses with the elders

on Deuteronomy 27:1-3

Moses commands with the elders of Israel at verse 1, and at verse 9 the priests the Levites stand with him, so the charge comes from the whole leadership of the nation rather than from one voice. The first work ordered for the far side of Jordan is a writing, great stones plaistered with plaister and carrying all the words of this law. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown point to Egyptian inscriptions laid in paint or plaister that have survived three thousand years, and observe that Moses was raised where that craft was practised.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying,.... The seventy elders, at the head of whom was Moses, which made the great sanhedrim, or council of the nation; Moses having recited all the laws of God to the people, these joined with him in an exhortation to them to observe and obey them: keep all the commandments which I command you this day; not in his own name, as being the supreme legislator, but in the name of the Lord, whom they had avouched to be their God and King, from whom he had received them.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

KEEP ALL THE COMMANDMENT etc. The meaning thereof is that after Moses completed his words [to the people,] he ordered the elders also to join him and warn the people to keep all the commandments, for every nation follows the advice of its elders.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Deuteronomy 27:1:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְצַ֤וand he commanded

    vaytzavH6680 →494 times

  • מֹשֶׁה֙Moses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • וְזִקְנֵ֣יand [the] elders of

    vezikneiH2205 →178 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָעָ֖םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • שָׁמֹר֙keep

    shamorH8104 →468 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַמִּצְוָ֔הthe commandment

    hamitzvahH4687 →181 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֧רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אָנֹכִ֛יI

    ʾanokhiH595 →359 times

  • מְצַוֶּ֥ה[am] commanding

    metzavehH6680 →494 times

  • אֶתְכֶ֖ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times

  • הַיּֽוֹם׃this day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.4 worksJames 2:10Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.3 worksLuke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”3 worksDeuteronomy 4:1–3Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.2 worksDeuteronomy 26:16The LORD your God commands you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be careful to follow them with all your heart and with all your soul.2 works1 Thessalonians 4:1–2Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Deuteronomy 11:32be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Luke 11:28

    But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

    it leads to

    • Luke 6:47–48

      I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:

    • Luke 8:21

      But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”

    • Psalms 112:1

      Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.

    • James 1:21–25

      Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

    • John 13:17

      If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

  • Through

    James 2:10

    Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

    it leads to

    • Galatians 3:10

      All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

  • Through

    John 15:14

    You are My friends if you do what I command you.

    it leads to

    • John 14:15

      If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Matthew 12:50

      For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 27 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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