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Exodus 24:3

in Exodus 24

When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the ordinances: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which Jehovah hath spoken will we do.

KJV

And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.

This verse in Exodus 24

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Moses - told the people all the words of the Lord - That is, the ten commandments, and the various laws and ordinances mentioned from the beginning of the 20th to the end of the 23d chapter.

This site's exposition

they all responded with one voice

Israel consents three times in six chapters, at 19:8 before the law was spoken, here after the words are read out, and at verse 7. The answer comes with one voice and nothing in the text compels it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This is the tenour of the covenant, That, if they would observe the foregoing precepts, God would perform the foregoing promises. "Obey, and be happy." Here is the bargain made. How it was engrossed in the book of the covenant: Moses wrote the words of the Lord (

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And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

How it was sealed by the blood of the covenant, that Israel might receive strong consolations from the ratifying of God's promises to them, and might lie under strong obligations from the ratifying of their promises to God.

The words behind it

23 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.

  • וַיָּבֹ֣אand he went

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֗הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • וַיְסַפֵּ֤רand he recounted

    vaysaperH5608 →159 times

  • לָעָם֙to the people

    laamH5971 →1873 times

  • אֵ֚ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • דִּבְרֵ֣י[the] words of

    divreiH1697 →1440 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וְאֵ֖תand <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֑יםthe judgments

    hamishpatimH4941 →422 times

  • וַיַּ֨עַןand it answered

    vaiyaanH6030 →331 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֜םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • ק֤וֹלa voice

    kolH6963 →506 times

  • אֶחָד֙one

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּand they said

    vaiyomeruH559 →5305 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַדְּבָרִ֛יםthe words

    hadevarimH1697 →1440 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • דִּבֶּ֥רhe has spoken

    diberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • נַעֲשֶֽׂה׃we will do

    naasehH6213 →2628 times

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

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

    Deuteronomy 6:1

    These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:1

      Hear 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…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Deuteronomy 12:1

      These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.

    • Deuteronomy 4:45

      These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,

  • Through

    Exodus 19:8

    And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought their words back to the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 24:7

      Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

  • Through

    Exodus 24:7

    Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 31:11–13

      when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.

    • Hebrews 9:18–23

      That is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.

    • Exodus 24:3–4

      When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”

  • Through

    Joshua 24:22

    Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 119:173

      May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.