John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 4:5

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, etc.] He had faithfully delivered them, without adding them, or diminishing from them, and had diligently instructed the Israelites in them, had taken pains to lead them into a thorough knowledge and understanding them: that ye should do so in the land whither ye go possess it; do in like manner as the commandments the Lord direct to; or that which is right f53; proper and fitting to be done, by doing which they continue in the land they were about to possess, therefore when in it were to be careful to them; some of them could not be done till they came into it, and all were to be done in it.

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