4Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. …
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The Deut. 33:1 is the title of the chapter: it is a blessing. In the foregoing chapter he had thundered out the terrors of the Lord against Israel for their sin; it was a chapter like Ezekiel’s roll, full of lamentation, and mourning, and woe. Now to soften that, and that he might not seem to part in anger, he here subjoins a blessing, and leaves his peace, which should descend and rest upon all t…
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