“Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, obey my ordinances, and keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will establish my promise with you that I made to your father David.
Exodus 21:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “These are the ordinances that you shall set before them: More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition NOW THESE are the ordinances you [Moses] shall set before [the Israelites]. American Standard Version (1901) Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. Common English Bible These are the case laws that you should set before them: Catholic Public Domain Version "These are the judgments which you shall place before them: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. |
“Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, obey my ordinances, and keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will establish my promise with you that I made to your father David.
whenever a case comes to you from your kindred who live in their cities concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or ordinances, then you shall instruct them, so that they may not incur guilt before the Lord and wrath may not come on you and your kindred. Do so, and you will not incur guilt.
join with their kin, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord and his ordinances and his statutes.
So Moses went, summoned the elders of the people, and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.
I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.
Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.
But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and commit none of these abominations, either the native-born or the alien who resides among you
You shall keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one shall live: I am the Lord.
You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and observe them: I am the Lord.”
“You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and observe them, so that the land to which I bring you to settle in may not vomit you out.
Remember the teaching of my servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances,
These are the commandments and the ordinances that the Lord commanded through Moses to the Israelites in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
“If a member of your community, whether a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and works for you six years, in the seventh year you shall set that person free.
And the Lord charged me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy.
These are the decrees and the statutes and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites when they had come out of Egypt,
“See, just as the Lord my God has charged me, I now teach you statutes and ordinances for you to observe in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.
And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?
Moses convened all Israel and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I am addressing to you today; you shall learn them and observe them diligently.
But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, the statutes and the ordinances, that you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’
“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy,
“When your children ask you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?’
Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God (as, in fact, you are doing), you should do so more and more.