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IDuteronomi 26:16
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
This day: Deuteronomy 4:1-6, Deuteronomy 6:1, Deuteronomy 11:1, Deuteronomy 11:8, Deuteronomy 12:1, Deuteronomy 12:32, Matthew 28:20
keep: Deuteronomy 6:5, Deuteronomy 6:17, Deuteronomy 8:2, Deuteronomy 13:3, Deuteronomy 13:4, John 14:15, John 14:21-24, 1 John 5:2, 1 John 5:3
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 27:1 - Keep all Deuteronomy 27:9 - this day Joshua 10:40 - as the Lord Psalms 119:80 - sound
Gill's Notes on the Bible
This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments,.... These are the words of Moses, as Aben Ezra rightly observes, and refer not only to the laws last mentioned, but to all others which he had repeated, or the Lord by him had ordered to be observed, recorded in this book: and though it is very probable Moses had been several days repeating former laws, and acquainting them with new ones; yet this being the last day, in which the whole account was finished, they are said to be commanded that day, and though commanded that day were to be observed and done every day; for, as Jarchi says, every day was to be considered and reckoned as new, as if on that day they were commanded them:
thou shall therefore keep and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; cordially, readily, willingly, sincerely, constantly, and to the utmost of their abilities.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A brief and earnest exhortation by way of conclusion to the second and longest discourse of the book.
Deuteronomy 26:17
Thou hast avouched - literally, “made to say:” so also in the next verse. The sense is: “Thou hast given occasion to the Lord to say that He is thy God,” i. e. by promising that He shall be so. Compare Exodus 24:7; Joshua 24:14-25,