Deuteronomy - 31:5



5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 31:5.

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And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
Therefore when the Lord shall have delivered these also to you, you shall do in like manner to them as I have commanded you,
And when Jehovah giveth them up before you, ye shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
And Jehovah hath given them before your face, and ye have done to them according to all the command which I have commanded you;
The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders.
Therefore, when the Lord will have delivered these to you also, you shall act similarly toward them, just as I have instructed you.
Quum ergo dederit eos Jehova ante faciem vestram, tunc facietis eis omnino juxta praeceptum quod praecepi vobis.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And the LORD shall give them up (b) before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
(b) Into your hands.

And the Lord shall give them up before your face,.... To ruin and destruction; the Targum of Jonathan is,"the Word of the Lord shall deliver them up:"
that ye may do unto them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you; that is, utterly destroy them, make no covenant with them, enter into no alliances nor contract any marriages with them; but demolish their altars, cut down their groves, and break their images in pieces; of which last Aben Ezra interprets the words; but they are not to be restrained to that single instance; see Deuteronomy 7:1.

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