47For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
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For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: …
So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 44-52)Here is, I. The solemn delivery of this song to the children of Israel, Deut. 32:44 , 45 . Moses spoke it to as many as could hear him, while Joshua, in another assembly, at the same time, delivered it to as many as his voice would reach. Thus coming to them from the mouth of both their governors, Moses who was laying down the government, and Joshua who was taking it up, they would see they were b…
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