Deuteronomy 11:32

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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הַֽחֻקִּ֖ים

chôq

H2706

“the · statutes”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute

Appears 128× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 47:22

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2710

TWOT: 728a

statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due - prescribed task - prescribed portion - action prescribed (for oneself), resolve - prescribed due - prescribed limit, boundary - enactment, decree, ordinance - specific decree - law in general - enactments, statutes - conditions - enactments - decrees - civil enactments prescribed by God

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

12: words
11: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
5 nouns
1 pronoun
3 particles

Verb forms

וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֣ם Qal · Sequential Perfect
לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת Qal · Infinitive Construct
נֹתֵ֥ן Qal · Participle Active

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 11:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Deuteronomy 12:32 Whatever thing I command you, that shall you observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
Deuteronomy 5:32–33 You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Psalms 119:6 Then I wouldn't be disappointed, When I consider all of your commandments.
Matthew 7:21–27 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Luke 1:6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
1 Thessalonians 4:1–2 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Deuteronomy 11:32 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֣ם לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת אֵ֥ת כָּל הַֽחֻקִּ֖ים וְאֶת הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֧ר אָנֹכִ֛י נֹתֵ֥ן לִפְנֵיכֶ֖ם הַיּֽוֹם

You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 11:32 Septuagint · lemma form

καί φυλάσσω ὁ ποιέω πᾶς ὁ πρόσταγμα αὐτός καί ὁ κρίσις οὗτος ὅσος ἐγώ δίδωμι ἐνώπιον σύ σήμερον

And you⌃ shall take heed to do all his ordinances, and these judgments, as many as I set before you today.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְתִטְרוּן לְמֶעְבַּד יָת כָּל קְיָמַיָא וְיָת דִינַיָא דִי אֲנָא יָהֵב קֳדָמֵיכוֹן יוֹמָא דֵין

(no public-domain English translation for this verse)

Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְתִטְרוּן לְמֶעֱבַד יַת כָּל קְיָימַיָא וְיַת דִּינַיָא דִי אֲנָא יָהֵיב קֳדָמֵיכוֹן יוֹמָא דֵין

Look well, therefore, that you perform all the statutes and judgments that I have set before you this day.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Deuteronomy 11:32 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

The Biblical Illustrator

Joseph S. Exell

Deu_11:32

Observe to do.

Obedience to the Divine commands

I. It is a breach of the injunction in the text for any man to substitute any contrivance or invention of his own, in the room of that which God hath prescribed in His worship, when such prescription is plain and express.

II. By virtue of the injunction in the text, we are bound to take heed, that we do not interpret any portion of Scripture, to such a sense as to pervert it from its true meaning and intention.

III. By these words we are strictly prohibited from pretending that anything is a Divine command, which is really not so.

IV. But though we must not add anything to the Word of God, or detract anything from it, pretending that any such alteration is of Divine appointment, yet where the Lord hath not spoken, I mean in such things as may be left to human prudence and discretion, the lawful magistrates, and the governors of the Church lawfully appointed, have an undoubted right to order and appoint such observances as are necessary and convenient for edification and external decorum in the public worship; and to take care that everything be done decently and in order; and so far as their commands are not in opposition or contrary to the Word of God, it becomes the duty of their people to comply with them. (Alex. Grant, D. D.)

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The Biblical Illustrator, edited by Joseph S. Exell (c. 1880s–1900s) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Fulfil. How inconsistent must such exhortations be, if, as Protestants assert, the commandments be impossible, and "the law exacteth impossible things." (Luther in Gal. iii.) (Haydock)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Ramban (Nachmanides)

Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban / Nachmanides)

AND YE SHALL OBSERVE TO DO ALL THE STATUTES AND THE ORDINANCES. Here, also, he admonishes concerning the statutes and ordinances before mentioning the rest of the commandments, and he cites first the ordinance concerning idolatry and its appurtenances as I have explained in the section of Va’ethchanan. Afterwards he mentions many ordinances concerning a false prophet, a beguiler, Verses 7-12. and an apostate city., Verses 13-19. And he mentions among the statutes first, the offerings in the Sanctuary, and afterwards, the prohibition of eating anything abominable, and the rest of the commandments.

Ramban (Nachmanides) on the Tanakh — English translation: “Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chôq (“statute”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word chôq carries the sense “statute.” How does it shape the verse?
Deuteronomy 12:32 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֣ם» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how The Biblical Illustrator and Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 18 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.