1These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
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That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: …
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)From those great original truths, That there is a God, and that there is but one God, arise those great fundamental laws, That that God is to be worshipped, and he only, and that therefore we are to have no other God before him: this is the first commandment, and the second is a guard upon it, or a hedge about it. To prevent a revolt to false gods, we are forbidden to worship the true God in such…
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