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Deuteronomy 5:29-31
New English Translation
Deuteronomy 5:29-31
New English Translation
29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey[a] all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever. 30 Go and tell them, ‘Return to your tents!’ 31 But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments,[b] statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them.”[c]
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- Deuteronomy 5:29 tn Heb “keep” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).
- Deuteronomy 5:31 tn Heb “commandment.” The MT actually has the singular (הַמִּצְוָה, hammitsvah), suggesting perhaps that the following terms (חֻקִּים [khuqqim] and מִשְׁפָּטִים [mishpatim]) are in epexegetical apposition to “commandment.” That is, the phrase could be translated “the entire command, namely, the statutes and ordinances.” This would essentially make מִצְוָה (mitsvah) synonymous with תּוֹרָה (torah), the usual term for the whole collection of law.
- Deuteronomy 5:31 tn Heb “to possess it” (so KJV, ASV); NLT “as their inheritance.”
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