Deuteronomy 7:11

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 7:11 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And you shall keep the commandments and the statutes and the ordinances that I command you today, to do them.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Keepe thou therefore the commandements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which I commaund thee this day to doe them.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    ,11 Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I command thee this day to do.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and thou hast kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding thee to-day to do them.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And you have kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding you today to do them.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    You will therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the decrees that I command you today, so that you will do them.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And you shall keep the commandments and the statutes and the ordinances that I command you today, to do them.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And thou shalt keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    So keep the commandments and rules and regulations that I'm giving you to follow today.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

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הַֽחֻקִּ֣ים
chôq
H2706
“the · statutes”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Absolute
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
  1. וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֨ shâmar H8104 “and · to keep” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  3. הַמִּצְוָ֜ה mitsvâh H4687 “the · commandment” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  4. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  5. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  6. הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֗ים mishpâṭ H4941 “the · judgments” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  7. אֲשֶׁ֨ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  8. אָנֹכִ֧י ʼânôkîy H595 “I” Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  9. מְצַוְּךָ֛ tsâvâh H6680 “commanding · you” Verb, Piel, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  10. הַיּ֖וֹם yôwm H3117 “the · day” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  11. לַעֲשׂוֹתָֽם ʻâsâh H6213 “to do · them” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural

About this verse

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12
words
10
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 1 pronoun
  • 4 particles

Verb forms

  • וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֨ Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • מְצַוְּךָ֛ Piel · Participle Active
  • לַעֲשׂוֹתָֽם Qal · Infinitive Construct

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 20 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 17 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

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Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 7:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • John 14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
  • Deuteronomy 4:1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
  • Deuteronomy 5:32 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.

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

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Deuteronomy 7:11 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֨ אֶת הַמִּצְוָ֜ה וְאֶת הַֽחֻקִּ֣ים וְאֶת הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָנֹכִ֧י מְצַוְּךָ֛ הַיּ֖וֹם לַעֲשׂוֹתָֽם

You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 7:11 Septuagint · lemma form

καί φυλάσσω ὁ ἐντολή καί ὁ δικαίωμα καί ὁ κρίμα οὗτος ὅσος ἐγώ ἐντέλλομαι σύ σήμερον ποιέω

You shall keep therefore the commands, and the ordinances, and these judgments, which I command you this day to do.

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)

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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.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְתִטַר יָת תַּפְקֶדְתָּא וְיָת קְיָמַיָא וְיָת דִינַיָא דִי אֲנָא מְפַקְדָךְ יוֹמָא דֵין לְמֶעְבָּדְהוֹן

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    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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְתִנְטְרוּן יַת תַּפְקֵידְתָּא וְיַת קְיָמַיָא וְיַת דִּינַיָא דַּאֲנָא מְפַקֵּיד יַתְכוֹן לְמֶעֱבַדְהוֹן

    Observe therefore the mandates, the statutes, and judgments which I command you, to perform them.

    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 7:11 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 →

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day--In the covenant into which God entered with Israel, He promised to bestow upon them a variety of blessings so long as they continued obedient to Him as their heavenly King. He pledged His veracity that His infinite perfections would be exerted for this purpose, as well as for delivering them from every evil to which, as a people, they would be exposed. That people accordingly were truly happy as a nation, and found every promise which the faithful God made to them amply fulfilled, so long as they adhered to that obedience which was required of them. See a beautiful illustration of this in Psa 144:12-15.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

11. the commandment, and the statutes, and the judgements] See on Deu_6:1. Sam. again omits and before statutes.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments,.... The laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, urged thereunto both by promises and threatenings, in hopes of reward, and through fear of punishment:

which I command thee this day, to do them; in the name of the Lord, and by his authority; by virtue of which he made a new declaration of them to put them in mind of them in order to observe them.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

As God would thus summarily avenge himself of his adversaries, the people are exhorted to keep all his commandments, statutes, and rights.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

This energy of the grace and holiness of the faithful covenant God was a powerful admonition to keep the divine commandments.

Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

היום לעשותם [WHICH I COMMANDED THEE] TO-DAY TO DO THEM — to do them to-day, but only in the time to come — in the future world — to receive the reward for them (Eruvin 22a).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (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 (10 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

  1. The word chôq carries the sense “statute.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. John 14:15 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  4. The verb «וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֨» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
  5. Reading how Jamieson, Fausset & Brown and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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