1And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
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Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Here is, I. A general charge to the people to keep God’s commandments; for in vain did they know them, unless they would do them. This is pressed upon them, 1. With all authority. Moses with the elders of Israel , the rulers of each tribe (Deut. 27:1), and again, Moses and the priests the Levites (Deut. 27:9); so that the charge is given by Moses who was king in Jeshurun, and by their lords, both…
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