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Deuteronomy 33:10

They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, And Israel your law: They shall put incense before you, And whole burnt-offering on your altar.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Incense;   Intercession;   Law;   Levites;   Priest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Incense;   Law of Moses, the;   Levites, the;   Priests;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy;   Levi;   Priest;   Simeon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Education;   Levi;   Levite;   Priest;   Scribes;   Teacher;   Wisdom literature;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Curse, Accursed;   Levite;   Priest, Christ as;   Teach, Teacher;   Urim and Thummim;   Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hilkiah;   Levi;   Priest;   Sabbath;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Prayer;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Targums;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Levi ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Catechist;   Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Deuteronomy;   Palestine;   Priests and Levites;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Authority, Rabbinical;   Education;   Levi;   Levi ;   Priest;   Revelation;   Simḥat Torah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They will teach your ordinances to Jacoband your instruction to Israel;they will set incense before youand whole burnt offerings on your altar.
Hebrew Names Version
They shall teach Ya`akov your ordinances, Yisra'el your law: They shall put incense before you, Whole burnt offering on your altar.
King James Version
They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
Lexham English Bible
They taught your regulations to Jacob, and your law to Israel; they placed incense smoke before you, and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
English Standard Version
They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
New Century Version
He teaches your laws to the people of Jacob and your teachings to the people of Israel. He burns incense before you and makes whole burnt offerings on your altar.
New English Translation
They will teach Jacob your ordinances and Israel your law; they will offer incense as a pleasant odor, and a whole offering on your altar.
Amplified Bible
"The priests shall teach Your ordinances (judgments) to Jacob, And Your law to Israel. They shall put incense before You, And whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
New American Standard Bible
"They will teach Your ordinances to Jacob, And Your Law to Israel. They shall put incense before You, And whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They shall teach Iaakob thy iudgements, & Israel thy Lawe: they shall put incense before thy face, and the burnt offring vpon thine altar.
Legacy Standard Bible
They shall teach Your judgments to Jacob,And Your law to Israel.They shall put incense before You,And whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
Contemporary English Version
You teach God's laws to Israel, and at the place of worship you offer sacrifices and burn incense.
Complete Jewish Bible
They will teach Ya‘akov your rulings, Isra'el your Torah. They will set incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
Darby Translation
They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances, And Israel thy law: They shall put incense before thy nostrils, And whole burnt-offering upon thine altar.
Easy-to-Read Version
They will teach your rules to Jacob and your Law to Israel. They will burn incense before you. They will offer burnt offerings on your altar.
George Lamsa Translation
They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thee when thou art angry, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thy altar.
Good News Translation
They will teach your people to obey your Law; They will offer sacrifices on your altar.
Literal Translation
They shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob, and Your Law to Israel. They shall put incense at Your nostrils, and whole burnt offering on Your altar.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
they shal teach Iacob thy iudgmentes, and Israel thy lawe: they shal laie incense before thy nose, & burntofferinges vpon thine altare.
American Standard Version
They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances, And Israel thy law: They shall put incense before thee, And whole burnt-offering upon thine altar.
Bible in Basic English
They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They shall teache Iacob thy iudgementes, and Israel thy lawe: They shall put incense before thy nose, and the burnt sacrifice vpon thine aulter.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They shall teach Jacob Thine ordinances, and Israel Thy law; they shall put incense before Thee, and whole burnt-offering upon Thine altar.
King James Version (1611)
They shal teach Iacob thy iudgments, and Israel thy Lawe: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice vpon thine Altar.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They shall declare thine ordinances to Jacob, and thy law to Israel: they shall place incense in the time of thy wrath continually upon thine altar.
English Revised Version
They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, And Israel thy law: They shall put incense before thee, And whole burnt offering upon thine altar.
Berean Standard Bible
He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Jacob, thei kepten thi domes, and `thou, Israel, thei kepten thi lawe; thei schulen putte encense in thi strong veniaunce, and brent sacrifice on thin auter.
Young's Literal Translation
They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.
Webster's Bible Translation
They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thy altar.
World English Bible
They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, Israel your law: They shall put incense before you, Whole burnt offering on your altar.
New King James Version
They shall teach Jacob Your judgments, And Israel Your law. They shall put incense before You, And a whole burnt sacrifice on Your altar.
New Living Translation
They teach your regulations to Jacob; they give your instructions to Israel. They present incense before you and offer whole burnt offerings on the altar.
New Life Bible
They will teach Your Laws to Jacob. They will teach Your Laws to Israel. They will put special perfume before You, and whole burnt gifts on Your altar.
New Revised Standard
They teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law; they place incense before you, and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
May teach thy regulations unto Jacob, And thy law unto Israel, - May put incense in thy nostrils, And a whole-offering upon thine altar.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.
Revised Standard Version
They shall teach Jacob thy ordinances, and Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt offering upon thy altar.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob, And Your law to Israel. They shall put incense before You, And whole burnt offerings on Your altar.

Contextual Overview

8 And of Levi he said, bring to Levi your Thummim, and your Urim to your godly one, Whom you proved at Massah, With whom you strove at the waters of Meribah; 9 Who said of his father, and of his mother, I haven't seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor knew he his own sons: For they have observed your word, And keep your covenant. 10 They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, And Israel your law: They shall put incense before you, And whole burnt-offering on your altar. 11 Bless, Yahweh, his substance, And accept the work of his hands: Smite through the loins of those that rise up against him, And of those that hate him, that they may not rise again.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

They shall teach: or, Let them teach, etc. Deuteronomy 17:9-11, Deuteronomy 24:8, Leviticus 10:11, 2 Chronicles 17:8-10, 2 Chronicles 30:22, Nehemiah 8:1-9, Nehemiah 8:13-15, Nehemiah 8:18, Ezekiel 44:23, Ezekiel 44:24, Hosea 4:6, Malachi 2:6-8, Matthew 23:2, Matthew 23:3, John 21:15, John 21:16

they shall put incense: or, let them put incense, Exodus 30:7, Exodus 30:8, Numbers 16:40, Numbers 16:46, 1 Samuel 2:28, 2 Chronicles 26:18, Luke 1:9, Luke 1:10, Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews 9:24, Revelation 8:3-5

before thee: Heb. at thy nose

whole: Leviticus 1:9, Leviticus 1:13, Leviticus 1:17, Leviticus 9:12, Leviticus 9:13, Psalms 51:19, Ezekiel 43:27

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:29 - Moses Numbers 16:47 - and he put Deuteronomy 27:14 - General Joshua 21:41 - within 2 Chronicles 15:3 - a teaching 2 Chronicles 17:7 - to teach 2 Chronicles 35:3 - the Levites Ezra 7:10 - and to teach Nehemiah 8:7 - caused Jeremiah 2:8 - and they that Haggai 2:11 - General Zechariah 7:3 - speak Matthew 4:22 - General Matthew 8:21 - suffer Mark 12:14 - carest Romans 12:7 - or he

Cross-References

Genesis 19:19
now see that your slave has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving-kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life; and I can't escape to the mountain, or else evil will overtake me, and I will die:
Genesis 32:30
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, [he said], I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
Genesis 33:12
And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you.
Genesis 33:13
And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
Genesis 43:3
And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man did solemnly protest to us, saying, You shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
Genesis 47:29
And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: don't bury me, I pray you, in Egypt;
Genesis 50:4
And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Ruth 2:10
Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a foreigner?
1 Samuel 20:3
And David swore moreover, and said, Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, Don't let Jonathan know this, or else he will be grieved: but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.
2 Samuel 3:13
And he said, Good; I will make a league with you; but one thing I require of you: that is, you shall not see my face, except you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They shall teach Jacob thy statutes, and Israel thy law,.... The priests and Levites, being dispersed among each of the tribes, having cities in them allotted to them, taught the people the laws, statutes, and ordinances of the Lord, moral, civil, and ceremonial, see Malachi 2:6;

they shall put incense before thee; upon the altar of incense, which none but a priest might do, as the case of Uzziah shows; and which, the Jews say k, he might do but once: the same priest might not offer incense twice; a new priest was always employed: in this they, were typical of Christ, the only Intercessor who is always at the golden altar, to offer up the prayers of all saints with his much incense, Revelation 8:3;

and whole burnt offerings upon thine altar; the altar of burnt offering, typical of Christ, who is both altar, sacrifice, and priest.

k T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 26. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 33:10. They shall teach Jacob, c. — This was the office of the Levites, to teach, by their significant service and typical ceremonies, the way of righteousness and truth to the children of Israel. And of their faithfulness in this respect God bears testimony by the prophet, "My covenant was with him of life and peace," Malachi 2:5 and, "The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity;" Malachi 2:6. These words are a sufficient comment on the words of the text.


 
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