Deuteronomy 4:44

Good News Translation

Moses gave God's laws and teachings to the people of Israel.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
This is the law which Moshe set before the children of Yisra'el:

King James Version
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

Lexham English Bible
Now this is the law that Moses set before the Israelites;

English Standard Version
This is the law that Moses set before the people of Israel.

New Century Version
These are the teachings Moses gave to the people of Israel.

New English Translation
This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.

Amplified Bible
This is the law which Moses placed before the sons of Israel;

New American Standard Bible
Now this is the Law which Moses set before the sons of Israel;

Geneva Bible (1587)
So this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel;

Contemporary English Version
Moses said, "People of Israel, you must set aside the following three towns east of the Jordan River as Safe Towns: Bezer in the desert highlands belonging to the Reuben tribe; Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gad tribe; and Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manasseh tribe. If you kill a neighbor without meaning to, and if you had not been angry with that person, you can run to one of these towns and find safety." The Israelites had come from Egypt and were camped east of the Jordan River near Beth-Peor, when Moses gave these laws and teachings. The land around their camp had once belonged to King Sihon of Heshbon. But Moses and the Israelites defeated him

Complete Jewish Bible
This is the Torah which Moshe placed before the people of Isra'el —

Darby Translation
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

Easy-to-Read Version
Moses gave God's law to the Israelites.

George Lamsa Translation
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;

Christian Standard Bible®
This is the law Moses gave the Israelites.

Literal Translation
And this is the Law which Moses set before the sons of Israel;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is the lawe which Moses layed before the children of Israel:

American Standard Version
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

Bible in Basic English
This is the law which Moses put before the children of Israel:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so this is the lawe which Moyses set before the children of Israel:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;

King James Version (1611)
And this is the Law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

English Revised Version
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

Berean Standard Bible
This is the law Moses set before the Israelites.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This is the lawe which Moises `settide forth bifor the sones of Israel,

Young's Literal Translation
And this [is] the law which Moses hath set before the sons of Israel;

Update Bible Version
And this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel:

Webster's Bible Translation
And this [is] the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

World English Bible
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

New King James Version
Now this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

New Living Translation
This is the body of instruction that Moses presented to the Israelites.

New Life Bible
This is the Law which Moses gave to the children of Israel.

New Revised Standard
This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, then is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel:

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the law, that Moses set before the children of Israel,

Revised Standard Version
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;

THE MESSAGE
This is the Revelation that Moses presented to the People of Israel. These are the testimonies, the rules and regulations Moses spoke to the People of Israel after their exodus from Egypt and arrival on the east side of the Jordan in the valley near Beth Peor. It was the country of Sihon king of the Amorites who ruled from Heshbon. Moses and the People of Israel fought and beat him after they left Egypt and took his land. They also took the land of Og king of Bashan. The two Amorite kings held the country on the east of the Jordan from Aroer on the bank of the Brook Arnon as far north as Mount Siyon, that is, Mount Hermon, all the Arabah plain east of the Jordan, and as far south as the Sea of the Arabah (the Dead Sea) beneath the slopes of Mount Pisgah.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel;

Contextual Overview

⁴¹ Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan River ⁴² to which a man could escape and be safe if he had accidentally killed someone who had not been his enemy. He could escape to one of these cities and not be put to death. ⁴³ For the tribe of Reuben there was the city of Bezer, on the desert plateau; for the tribe of Gad there was Ramoth, in the territory of Gilead; and for the tribe of Manasseh there was Golan, in the territory of Bashan. ⁴⁴ Moses gave God's laws and teachings to the people of Israel. ⁴⁵It was after they had come out of Egypt and were in the valley east of the Jordan River, opposite the town of Bethpeor, that he gave them these laws. This was in the territory that had belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites, who had ruled in the town of Heshbon. Moses and the people of Israel defeated him when they came out of Egypt. ⁴⁷ They occupied his land and the land of King Og of Bashan, the other Amorite king who lived east of the Jordan. ⁴⁸ This land extended from the town of Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon River, all the way north to Mount Sirion, that is, Mount Hermon. ⁴⁹ It also included all the region east of the Jordan River as far south as the Dead Sea and east to the foot of Mount Pisgah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

This is evidently an introduction to the discourse of the subsequent chapters. Moses having practically improved some particulars in the history of Israel, proceeded to repeat and enforce the laws which he had delivered before, with additions and explanations, beginning with the ten commandments. Deuteronomy 1:5, Deuteronomy 17:18, Deuteronomy 17:19, Deuteronomy 27:3, Deuteronomy 27:8, Deuteronomy 27:26, Deuteronomy 33:4, Leviticus 27:34, Numbers 36:13, Malachi 4:4, John 1:17

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:37 - the statutes Jeremiah 26:4 - which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel. Not the law concerning the cities of refuge, but the law of the ten commands repeated in the following chapter; so Jarchi remarks,

"this which he should set in order after this section;''

as he does in the next chapter, where he repeats in order the ten precepts, and makes observations on the manner of the delivery of them, and urges obedience to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses would be more properly assigned to the next chapter. They are intended to serve as the announcement and introduction of the address now to be commenced. Deuteronomy 4:44 gives a kind of general title to the whole of the weighty address, including in fact the central part and substance of the book, which now follows in 22 chapters, divided into two groups:

(a) Deut. 5–11,

(b) Deut. 12–26.

The address was delivered when they had already received the first-fruits of those promises Deuteronomy 4:46, the full fruition of which was to be consequent on their fulfillment of that covenant now again about to be rehearsed to them in its leading features.

Deuteronomy 4:48

Sion must not be confounded with Zion (compare Psalms 48:2.).