Deuteronomy 12:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:40 : 40 So that they may give you worship all the days of their life in the land which you gave to our fathers.
  • Job 7:1 : 1 Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
  • Ps 104:33 : 33 I will make songs to the Lord all my life; I will make melody to my God while I have my being.
  • Ps 146:2 : 2 While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.
  • Deut 4:1-2 : 1 And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2 Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.
  • Deut 4:5 : 5 I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.
  • Deut 4:9-9 : 9 Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children; 10 That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.
  • Deut 4:45 : 45 These are the rules and the laws and the decisions which Moses gave to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt;
  • Deut 6:1-2 : 1 Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going: 2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.
  • Deut 12:19 : 19 See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 6:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    1 Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:

    2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

    3 So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 4:1
    84%

    1 And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

  • Deut 8:1
    82%

    1 Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.

  • Deut 4:5
    82%

    5 I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.

  • Deut 11:31-32
    2 verses
    81%

    31 For you are about to go over Jordan to take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, and it will be your resting-place.

    32 And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put before you today.

  • Deut 30:16
    80%

    16 In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.

  • Deut 4:14
    80%

    14 And the Lord gave me orders at that time to make clear to you these laws and decisions, so that you might do them in the land to which you are going, and which is to be your heritage.

  • Deut 11:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8 So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and take the land which is to be your heritage;

    9 And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 5:31
    78%

    31 But as for you, keep your place here by me, and I will give you all the orders and the laws and the decisions which you are to make clear to them, so that they may do them in the land which I am giving them for their heritage.

  • Deut 6:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Deut 16:20
    78%

    20 Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 26:16
    77%

    16 Today the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all these laws and decisions: so then keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul.

  • Deut 26:1
    77%

    1 Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;

  • Deut 7:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11 So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.

    12 And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.

  • Deut 1:8
    76%

    8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

  • Exod 21:1
    76%

    1 Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.

  • Lev 25:18
    76%

    18 So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.

  • Deut 11:1
    76%

    1 So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

  • Deut 4:40
    76%

    40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

  • Deut 12:28-29
    2 verses
    76%

    28 Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

    29 When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

  • Deut 27:10
    75%

    10 For this cause you are to give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and do his orders and his laws which I give you this day.

  • Deut 32:47
    75%

    47 And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

  • Lev 18:3-5
    3 verses
    75%

    3 You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

    4 But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.

    5 So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 19:37
    75%

    37 You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.

  • Deut 5:33
    75%

    33 Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.

  • Deut 4:38
    75%

    38 Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

  • Num 33:53
    75%

    53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.

  • Deut 12:2
    75%

    2 You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

  • 1 Chr 28:8
    75%

    8 So now, before the eyes of all Israel, the people of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, keep and be true to the orders of the Lord your God; so that you may have this good land for yourselves and give it for a heritage to your children after you for ever.

  • Exod 13:11
    75%

    11 And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • Deut 6:24
    74%

    24 And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day.

  • Deut 30:20
    74%

    20 In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being true to him: for he is your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

  • Deut 10:13
    74%

    13 Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?

  • Deut 5:1
    74%

    1 And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them.

  • Deut 19:1
    74%

    1 When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;

  • Deut 12:9
    74%

    9 For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • 2 Kgs 17:37
    74%

    37 And the rules and the orders and the law which he put in writing for you, you are to keep and do for ever; you are to have no other gods.

  • Exod 12:25
    74%

    25 And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship.

  • Deut 4:8
    73%

    8 And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

  • Deut 1:21
    73%

    21 See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do not be troubled.

  • Ezek 20:11
    73%

    11 And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.