"Now theseare the ordinanceswhichyou are to setbeforethem:
"[Concerning] thishousewhichyou are building,ifyou will walkin My statutesand executeMy ordinancesand keepallMy commandmentsby walkingin them, then I will carryout My wordwith you whichI spoketo Davidyour father.
"Wheneveranydisputecomesto you from your brethrenwho livein their cities,betweenbloodand blood,betweenlawand commandment,statutesand ordinances,you shall warnthem sothat they may not be guiltybefore the LORD,and wrathmay [not] comeon you and your brethren.Thusyou shall doand you will not be guilty.
are joiningwith their kinsmen,their nobles,and are takingon themselves a curseand an oathto walkin God'slaw,whichwas giventhroughMoses,God'sservant,and to keepand to observeallthe commandmentsof GODour Lord,and His ordinancesand His statutes;
He declaresHis wordsto Jacob,His statutesand His ordinancesto Israel.
So Mosescameand calledthe eldersof the people,and setbeforethem allthesewordswhichthe LORDhad commandedhim.
"I gavethem My statutesand informedthem of My ordinances,by which,if a manobservesthem, he will live.
"I alsogavethem statutesthat were not goodand ordinancesby which they could not live;
But as for you, you are to keepMy statutesand My judgmentsand shall not doanyof theseabominations,[neither] the native,nor the alienwho sojournsamongyou
So you shall keepMy statutesand My judgments,by whicha manmay liveif he doesthem; I am the LORD.
You shall thus observeallMy statutesand allMy ordinancesand dothem; I am the LORD.'"
You are therefore to keepallMy statutesand allMy ordinancesand dothem, so that the landto whichI am bringingyou to livewill not spewyou out.
"Rememberthe lawof MosesMy servant,[even the] statutesand ordinanceswhichI commandedhim in Horebfor allIsrael.
then the congregationshall judgebetweenthe slayerand the bloodavengeraccordingto theseordinances.
Theseare the commandmentsand the ordinanceswhichthe LORDcommandedto the sonsof IsraelthroughMosesin the plainsof Moabby the Jordan[opposite] Jericho.
teachingthem to observeallthat I commandedyou; and lo,I amwith you always,evento the endof the age."
"Ifyour kinsman,a Hebrewmanorwoman,is soldto you, then he shall serveyou sixyears,but in the seventhyearyou shall sethim free.
"The LORDcommandedme at that timeto teachyou statutesand judgments,that you might performthem in the landwhereyou are goingoverto possessit.
theseare the testimoniesand the statutesand the ordinanceswhichMosesspoketo the sonsof Israel,when they cameout from Egypt,
"See,I have taughtyou statutesand judgmentsjustas the LORDmy Godcommandedme, that you should dothusin the landwhereyou are enteringto possessit.
"Or whatgreatnationis there that has statutesand judgmentsas righteousas thiswholelawwhichI am settingbeforeyou today?
Then MosessummonedallIsraeland saidto them: "Hear,O Israel,the statutesand the ordinanceswhichI am speakingtodayin your hearing,that you may learnthem and observethem carefully.
But as for you, standhereby Me, that I may speakto you allthe commandmentsand the statutesand the judgmentswhichyou shall teachthem, that they may observe[them] in the landwhichI givethem to possess.'
"Now thisis the commandment,the statutesand the judgmentswhichthe LORDyour Godhas commanded[me] to teachyou, that you might do[them] in the landwhereyou are goingoverto possessit,
"Whenyour sonasksyou in timeto come,saying,'What[do] the testimoniesand the statutesand the judgments[mean] whichthe LORDour Godcommandedyou?'
Finallythen,brethren,we requestand exhortyou in the LordJesus,that as you receivedfrom us [instruction] as to howyou oughtto walkand pleaseGod(justas you actuallydo walk),that you excelstill more.
