Deuteronomy - 8:6



6 You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 8:6.

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That thou shouldst keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and fear him.
and thou hast kept the commands of Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him.
Then keep the orders of the Lord your God, fearing him and walking in his ways.
Et custodies praecepta Jehovae Dei tui, ut ambules per vias ejus, et timeas eum.

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Historical Commentaries

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Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God,.... Not only because they are the commands of God, and of a covenant God and Father, which are reasons sufficient for the observance of them; but because the Lord had dealt so bountifully with them, in providing food and raiment for them in the wilderness, which always continued with them; and because, when he afflicted them, it was a fatherly chastisement, with great tenderness and compassion, and for their good; all which laid them under obligations to keep the commands of God, whatsoever he had enjoined them, whether of the moral, ceremonial, or judicial kind:
to walk in his ways, and to fear him; to walk in the ways he directed, to be under an awe of his majesty, a fear of offending him, and a reverential affection for him, such as children have to a father.

The design of this education was to train them to keep His commandments, that they might walk in His ways and fear Him (Deuteronomy 6:24).

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