Deuteronomy 31:27

Translations

Modern

For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!

Traditional

For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?

Literal

For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, in my being yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against YHWH; how much more surely after my death!

Latin

Ego enim scio contentionem tuam, et cervicem tuam durissimam. Adhuc vivente me et ingrediente vobiscum, semper contentiose egistis contra Dominum: quanto magis cum mortuus fuero?

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English

For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!

Notes

Deuteronomy 31:1–29

For a covenant document to remain binding and important, it had to be kept in a place where both sides could easily find it.

The book of Deuteronomy needed to be preserved for future generations. In this way, Israel would continue to remember to submit to the Lord’s rule.

Theme notes and profiles

Moses Ancient Law Codes

Related verses

Deuteronomy 9:24
You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
Deuteronomy 32:20
He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.
Acts 7:51
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
Psalm 78:8
Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
Isaiah 48:4
For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
Deuteronomy 9:6–7
Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
Exodus 32:8–9
How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

Glossary

Archaeology and the Bible Deuteronomy, Book of Pillar of Fire and Cloud

Topics

Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Death: Scenes of Death of Moses Rebellion Against God: Connected With: Man is Prone To Rebellion Against God: Connected With: Stubbornness Rebellion Against God: Ministers: should Remind Their People of Past Reproof: Faithfulness in Moses, of the Israelites Self-Will and Stubbornness: Exhibited in Rebelling Against God Self-Will: Exhibited in Rebelling Against God

Deuteronomy 31:27

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