Deuteronomy 7:11

Easy-to-Read Version

So you must be careful to obey the commands, laws, and rules that I give you today.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall therefore keep the mitzvah, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

King James Version
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Lexham English Bible
And so you shall keep the commandment and the rules and the regulations that I am commanding you today to observe them.

English Standard Version
You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.

New Century Version
So be careful to obey the commands, rules, and laws I give you today.

New English Translation
So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.

Amplified Bible
"Therefore, you shall keep (follow, obey) the commandment and the statutes and judgments (precepts) which I am commanding you today.

New American Standard Bible
"Therefore, you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Keepe thou therefore the commaundements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which I commaund thee this day to doe them.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Contemporary English Version
So be sure to obey his laws and teachings I am giving you today.

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, you are to keep the mitzvot, laws and rulings which I am giving you today, and obey them. Haftarah Va'etchanan: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 40:1–26 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Va'etchanan: Mattityahu (Matthew) 4:1–11; 22:33–40; Mark 12:28–34; Luke 4:1–13; 10:25–37; Acts 13:13–43; Romans 3:27–31; 1 Timothy 2:4–6; Ya‘akov (James) 2:14–26; and all the readings for Parashah 17 "Because you are listening to these rulings, keeping and obeying them, Adonai your God will keep with you the covenant and mercy that he swore to your ancestors. He will love you, bless you and increase your numbers; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground — your grain, wine, olive oil and the young of your cattle and sheep — in the land he swore to your ancestors that he would give you. You will be blessed more than all other peoples; there will not be a sterile male or female among you, and the same with your livestock. Adonai will remove all illness from you — he will not afflict you with any of Egypt's dreadful diseases, which you have known; instead, he will lay them on those who hate you. You are to devour all the peoples that Adonai your God hands over to you — show them no pity, and do not serve their gods, because that will become a trap for you. If you think to yourselves, ‘These nations outnumber us; how can we dispossess them?' nevertheless, you are not to be afraid of them; you are to remember well what Adonai your God did to Pharaoh and all of Egypt — the great ordeals which you yourself saw, and the signs, wonders, strong hand and outstretched arm by which Adonai your God brought you out. Adonai will do the same to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. Moreover, Adonai your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left and those who hide themselves perish ahead of you. You are not to be frightened of them, because Adonai your God is there with you, a God great and fearsome. Adonai your God will expel those nations ahead of you little by little; you can't put an end to them all at once, or the wild animals will become too numerous for you. Nevertheless, Adonai your God will give them over to you, sending one disaster after another upon them until they have been destroyed. He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their name from under heaven; none of them will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. You are to burn up completely the carved statues of their gods. Don't be greedy for the silver or gold on them; don't take it with you, or you will be trapped by it; for it is abhorrent to Adonai your God. Don't bring something abhorrent into your house, or you will share in the curse that is on it; instead, you are to detest it completely, loathe it utterly; for it is set apart for destruction.

Darby Translation
And thou shalt keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall therefore keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which I command you this day, and do them.

Good News Translation
Now then, obey what you have been taught; obey all the laws that I have given you today.

Christian Standard Bible®
So keep the command—the statutes and ordinances—that I am giving you to follow today.

Literal Translation
And you shall keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Kepe now therfore the commaundementes, and ordinaunces and lawes, which I commaunde the this daye, that thou do therafter.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Bible in Basic English
So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Kepe thou therfore the commaundementes, and ordinaunces, and lawes, which I commaunde thee this day, that thou do them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt therefore keepe the Commandements, and the Statutes, and the Iudgements, which I command thee this day, to doe them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt keep therefore the commands, and the ordinances, and these judgments, which I command thee this day to do.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Berean Standard Bible
So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor kepe thou the comaundementis, and cerymonyes, and domes, whiche Y comaunde to thee to dai, that thou do.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding thee to-day to do them.

Update Bible Version
You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

World English Bible
You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

New King James Version
Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

New Living Translation
Therefore, you must obey all these commands, decrees, and regulations I am giving you today.

New Life Bible
So keep and obey all the Laws I am telling you today.

New Revised Standard
Therefore, observe diligently the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that I am commanding you today.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shalt thou keep the commandment and the statutes and the regulations, which I am commanding thee to-day, to do them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I command thee this day to do.

Revised Standard Version
You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day.

THE MESSAGE
So keep the command and the rules and regulations that I command you today. Do them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Contextual Overview

¹ "The Lord your God will lead you into the land that you are entering to take for your own. He will force out many nations for you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—seven nations greater and more powerful than you. ² The Lord your God will put these nations under your power. And you will defeat them. You must destroy them completely. Don't make an agreement with them or show them mercy. ³ Don't marry any of them, and don't let your sons or daughters marry any of the people from those other nations. ⁴ If you do, they will turn your children away from following me. Then your children will serve other gods, and the Lord will be very angry with you. He will quickly destroy you! ⁵ "This is what you must do to those nations: You must smash their altars and break their memorial stones into pieces. Cut down their Asherah poles and burn their statues. ⁶ Do this because you are the Lord 's own people. From all the people on earth, the Lord your God chose you to be his special people—people who belong only to him. ⁷ Why did the Lord love and choose you? It was not because you are such a large nation. You had the fewest of all people! ⁸ But the Lord brought you out of Egypt with great power and made you free from slavery. He freed you from the control of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. The Lord did this because he loves you and he wanted to keep the promise he made to your ancestors. ⁹ "So remember that the Lord your God is the only God, and you can trust him! He keeps his agreement. He shows his love and kindness to all people who love him and obey his commands. He continues to show his love and kindness through a thousand generations, ¹⁰ but the Lord punishes people who hate him. He will destroy them. He will not be slow to punish those who hate him.

Bible Verse Review
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Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 5:32, John 14:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:20 - teach

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
So God made the space and separated the water. Some of the water was above it, and some of the water was below it.

Genesis 6:17
"Understand what I am telling you. I will bring a great flood of water on the earth. I will destroy all living things that live under heaven. Everything on the earth will die.

Genesis 7:5
Noah did everything the Lord told him to do.

Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old at the time the rains came.

Genesis 7:8
All the clean animals, all the other animals on the earth, the birds, and everything that crawls on the earth

Genesis 7:11
On the 17th day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, the springs under the earth broke through the ground, and water flowed out everywhere. The sky also opened like windows and rain poured down. The rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. That same day Noah went into the boat with his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.

Genesis 7:23
In this way God wiped the earth clean—he destroyed every living thing on the earth—every human, every animal, everything that crawls, and every bird. All that was left was Noah and his family and the animals that were with him in the boat.

Genesis 7:24
The water continued to cover the earth for 150 days.

2 Kings 7:2
Then the officer who was close to the king answered the man of God. The officer said, "Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, this could not happen." Elisha said, "You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of that food."

2 Kings 7:19
But that officer had answered the man of God, "Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, this could not happen!" And Elisha had told the officer, "You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of that food."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments,.... The laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, urged thereunto both by promises and threatenings, in hopes of reward, and through fear of punishment:

which I command thee this day, to do them; in the name of the Lord, and by his authority; by virtue of which he made a new declaration of them to put them in mind of them in order to observe them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Deuteronomy 6:10 note.

Deuteronomy 7:5

Their groves - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is to the wooden trunk used as a representation of Ashtaroth; see Deuteronomy 7:13 and Exodus 34:13 note.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The fewest of all people - God chose for Himself Israel, when as yet but a single family, or rather a single person, Abraham; though there were already numerous nations and powerful kingdoms in the earth. Increase Deuteronomy 1:10; Deuteronomy 10:22 had taken place because of the very blessing of God spoken of in Deuteronomy 7:8.

Deuteronomy 7:10

Repayeth them that hate him to their face - i. e., punishes His enemies in their own proper persons.