Deuteronomy 4:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Deut 8:1 : 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.
  • Rom 10:5 : 5 For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.
  • Ezek 20:11 : 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.
  • Lev 18:5 : 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 : 37 You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.
  • Lev 20:8 : 8 And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.
  • Lev 22:31 : 31 So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.
  • Deut 4:8 : 8 And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?
  • 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 5:1 : 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 5:33-6:2 : 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. 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 11:1 : 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 11:32 : 32 And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put before you today.
  • Deut 16:20 : 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 30:16 : 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 30:19 : 19 Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:
  • Ps 105:45 : 45 So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.
  • Ps 119:4 : 4 You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.
  • Ezek 11:20 : 20 So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
  • Ezek 20:21 : 21 But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.
  • Ezek 36:27 : 27 And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.
  • Ezek 37:24 : 24 And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

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    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:

  • Deut 4:5-6
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    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.

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  • Deut 12:1
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    1 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.

  • Deut 4:14
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    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 5:31
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    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 5:1
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    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 8:1
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    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 30:16
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    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 6:3
    78%

    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 11:31-32
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    77%

    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 27:10
    76%

    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 7:11-12
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    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 6:17-18
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    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 26:16
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    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.

  • Lev 18:4-5
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    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.

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  • Deut 11:8
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    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;

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    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.

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    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.

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  • Deut 32:46-47
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  • Deut 4:44-45
    2 verses
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    44 This is the law which Moses put before the children of Israel:

    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;

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    74%

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

  • Deut 11:1
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    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 10:13
    74%

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

  • Exod 21:1
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    1 Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.

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  • 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.

  • Deut 6:24
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    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
    73%

    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 12:28
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    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.

  • Lev 19:37
    73%

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

  • Deut 1:18
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    18 And at that time I gave you all the orders which you were to do.

  • Deut 4:10
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    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 5:33
    72%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 28:8
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 2:3
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    3 And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,

  • Deut 31:13
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    13 And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

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    20 Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do.

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    9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God.

  • Lev 25:18
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    18 So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.

  • Jer 10:1
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    1 Give ear to the word which the Lord says to you, O people of Israel:

  • Deut 15:5
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    5 If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.