Deuteronomy 7:11
in Deuteronomy 7So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.
KJV
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 7
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion
on Deuteronomy 7:9-11
Verse 9 repeats the second commandment's wording at Exodus 20:5-6, and verse 10 changes what stands there. Exodus visits iniquity on the third and fourth generation, but here the repayment lands on the man himself, "to their faces". Deuteronomy 24:16 states the same limit as law.
This site's exposition
So keep the commandments
So draws the conclusion from verses 9 and 10. A God who keeps covenant with those who love Him and repays those who hate Him is to be obeyed. The words this day tie the law to the speech Moses is giving.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
That people accordingly were truly happy as a nation, and found every promise which the faithful God made to them amply fulfilled, so long as they adhered to that obedience which was required of them.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS ‘EIKEV’ YE HEARKEN. Eikev means “because.” So also, ‘eikev’ ( because ) that Abraham hearkened to My voice. 1 Genesis:5.
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
12 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֨ | veshamarta | and you will keep | H8104 → | 468 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַמִּצְוָ֜ה | hamitzvah | the commandment | H4687 → | 181 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַֽחֻקִּ֣ים | hachukim | the statutes | H2706 → | 127 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֗ים | hamishpatim | the judgments | H4941 → | 422 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֨ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| אָנֹכִ֧י | ʾanokhi | I | H595 → | 359 times |
| מְצַוְּךָ֛ | metzavekha | [am] commanding you | H6680 → | 494 times |
| הַיּ֖וֹם | haiyom | this day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| לַעֲשׂוֹתָֽם׃ פ | laasotam | to observe them | H6213 → | 2628 times |
וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֨and you will keep
veshamartaH8104 →468 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַמִּצְוָ֜הthe commandment
hamitzvahH4687 →181 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַֽחֻקִּ֣יםthe statutes
hachukimH2706 →127 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֗יםthe judgments
hamishpatimH4941 →422 times
אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
אָנֹכִ֧יI
ʾanokhiH595 →359 times
מְצַוְּךָ֛[am] commanding you
metzavekhaH6680 →494 times
הַיּ֖וֹםthis day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
לַעֲשׂוֹתָֽם׃ פto observe them
laasotamH6213 →2628 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
it leads to
- 1 John 2:3–5
By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
- 1 John 5:2–3
By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
- John 14:21–24
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
- 2 John 1:6
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.
- John 15:10–14
If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
- 1 John 2:3–5
Through
Deuteronomy 4:1Hear 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…
it leads to
- Romans 10:5
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
- Romans 10:5
Through
Deuteronomy 5:32So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
it leads to
- Proverbs 4:27
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.
- Joshua 23:6
Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the…
- Proverbs 4:27
Where this verse is studied
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.