Translations
Modern
So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.
Traditional
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
Literal
And you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances that I command you today to do.
Latin
Custodi ergo præcepta et cæremonias atque judicia, quæ ego mando tibi hodie ut facias.
Original
Hebrew
English
So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.
Notes
Before Israel could occupy the promised land, they had to remove the people already living there (compare Genesis 13:14–17; 15:18–21). The land belonged to the Lord, and only God could decide who should live there.
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