and said, "I beg you, the LORD, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:
We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.
but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.'
"You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
"But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your commandments,
and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.
they joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.
The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers over against them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.
They performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the purification, and [so did] the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the wave offerings for the priests.
All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.
These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.
These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.
These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.
According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
At the commandment of the LORD, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.
Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they traveled.
At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, and at the commandment of the LORD they traveled. They kept the LORD's command, at the commandment of the LORD by Moses.
They first went forward according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.
Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
Moses said, "Why now do you disobey the commandment of the LORD, since it shall not prosper?
"'When you shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which the LORD has spoken to Moses,
even all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;
Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.'"
and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;
that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;
The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.
He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.
the LORD's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. the LORD's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,
if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments;
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Then I wouldn't be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.
I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.
You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY
Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYIN
I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
You are near, the LORD. All your commandments are truth.
I have hoped for your salvation, the LORD. I have done your commandments.
Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don't forget your commandments. A Song of Ascents.
He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.
The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony.
Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations;
but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
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