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Lexicon :: Strong's H2708 - ḥuqqâ

Aa
חֻקָּה
Transliteration
ḥuqqâ
Pronunciation
khook-kaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 728b

Strong’s Definitions

חֻקָּה chuqqâh, khook-kaw'; feminine of H2706, and meaning substantially the same:—appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 104x

The KJV translates Strong's H2708 in the following manner: statute (77x), ordinance (22x), custom (2x), appointed (1x), manners (1x), rites (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 104x
The KJV translates Strong's H2708 in the following manner: statute (77x), ordinance (22x), custom (2x), appointed (1x), manners (1x), rites (1x).

  1. statute, ordinance, limit, enactment, something prescribed

    1. statute

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֻקָּה chuqqâh, khook-kaw'; feminine of H2706, and meaning substantially the same:—appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.
STRONGS H2708: Abbreviations
† חֻקָּה 104 noun feminineExodus 13:10 something prescribed, enactment, statute; — ח׳ Numbers 9:14 + 2 times; construct חֻקַּת Exodus 12:14 + 28 times; plural חֻקּוֺת Jeremiah 5:24 + 12 times; חֻקֹּת Leviticus 20:23; Jeremiah 31:35; suffix חֻקּוֺתַי Genesis 26:5 + 14 times; חֻקֹּתַי Leviticus 18:4 + 21 times etc.; —
1. singular statute, of special ritual laws: of passover Exodus 13:10 (J); elsewhere only in P (and H), חקת הפסח Exodus 12:43; Numbers 9:12, 14; התורה ח׳ Numbers 19:2; Numbers 31:21; משׁפט ח׳ Numbers 27:11; Numbers 35:29; עולם ח׳ Exodus 12:14, 17; Exodus 27:21; Exodus 28:43; Exodus 29:9; Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 7:36; Leviticus 10:9; Leviticus 16:29, 31, 34; Leviticus 23:21, 31; Leviticus 24:3; Numbers 10:8; Numbers 15:15; Numbers 18:23; Numbers 19:10, 21 (all P), Leviticus 17:7; Leviticus 23:14, 41 (H); חֻקָּה אַחַת לַגֵּר ולאזרךְ Numbers 9:14; Numbers 15:15.
2. plural statutes:
a. of nature שׁמים ח׳ Job 38:33; Jeremiah 33:25; of moon and stars Jeremiah 31:35; of weeks of harvest Jeremiah 5:24.
b. figurative of a firmly established custom הגוי(םׅ ח׳ Leviticus 20:23 (H) 2 Kings 17:8; העמים ח׳ Jeremiah 10:3 עמרי ח׳ Micah 6:16; idolatry ישׂראל ח׳ 2 Kings 17:19; sexual offences Leviticus 18:30 (H).
c. דוד ח׳ statutes of David 1 Kings 3:3.
d. || משׁפטים 2 Samuel 22:23 ＝Psalm 18:23 (of the law known to David); || מצות Psalm 89:32; ברית וח׳ 1 Kings 11:11; elsewhere of the prescriptions of the codes of D, H, P, Ezekiel: usually חקות ומשׁפטים Leviticus 18:5, 26; Leviticus 19:37; Leviticus 20:22 (H), Leviticus 25:18; Numbers 9:3 (P), 1 Kings 11:33; Ezekiel 5:7; Ezekiel 11:20; Ezekiel 18:9; Ezekiel 20:11, 13, 19, 21; preceded by מצות Deuteronomy 30:16; followed by מצות Leviticus 26:15 (H), Deuteronomy 11:1; 1 Kings 6:12; תורה ומצוה 2 Kings 17:34; or else משׁפטים וחקות Leviticus 18:4; Leviticus 26:43 (H), Ezekiel 5:6 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 18:17; Ezekiel 20:16, 24; Ezekiel 37:24; preceded by מצות Deuteronomy 8:11; in different order, ועדות מצות ומ׳ ח׳ 1 Kings 2:3; frequently also ומצות ח׳ Leviticus 26:3 (H), Deuteronomy 6:2; 1 Kings 11:38; 2 Chronicles 7:19; or מצות (ו)ח׳ Deuteronomy 10:13; Deuteronomy 28:15, 45; Deuteronomy 30:10; 1 Kings 9:6; 1 Kings 11:34; Ezekiel 43:11 (Co), 2 Kings 17:13; followed by תורות Genesis 26:5 (R); מצות ועדות וח׳ 2 Kings 23:3; תורה וח׳ Jeremiah 44:10; ותורה וח׳ ועדות Jeremiah 44:23; ותורות ח׳ Ezekiel 44:5; Ezekiel 43:11 (Co); תורות יח׳ Ezekiel 44:24; special ordinances are המזבח ח׳ Ezekiel 43:18; בית י׳ ח׳ Ezekiel 44:5; חיים ח׳ Ezekiel 33:15 (which are life to those who keep them); עולם תמיד ח׳ (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate Talm Co strike out עולם) Ezekiel 46:14.
e. phrases of obedience are הלך ב׳ Leviticus 18:3; Leviticus 20:23; Leviticus 26:3 (H), 1 Kings 3:3; 1 Kings 6:12; 2 Kings 17:8, 19; Jeremiah 44:10, 23; Ezekiel 5:6, 7; Ezekiel 11:20; Ezekiel 18:9, 17; Ezekiel 20:13, 16, 19, 21; Ezekiel 33:15; שׁמר Leviticus 18:4, 5, 26; Leviticus 19:19, 37; Leviticus 20:8, 22 (H), Genesis 26:5 (R), Deuteronomy 6:2; Deuteronomy 8:11; Deuteronomy 10:13; Deuteronomy 11:1; Deuteronomy 28:45; Deuteronomy 30:10, 16; 1 Kings 2:3; 1 Kings 9:6; 1 Kings 11:11, 34, 38; 2 Kings 17:13; 2 Kings 23:3; Ezekiel 18:19, 21; Ezekiel 37:24; Ezekiel 43:11; Ezekiel 44:24; עשׂה Leviticus 25:18 (P), Deuteronomy 28:15; 1 Kings 11:33; עשׂה כח׳ 2 Kings 17:34; אֶשְׁתַּעֲשָׁ֑ע בח׳ Psalm 119:16; phrases of disobedience are מאס ח׳ Ezekiel 20:24 מאס בח׳ Leviticus 26:15 (H); געל Leviticus 26:43 (H); עזב 2 Chronicles 7:19; חלל Psalm 89:32. —
[חֹק and חֻקָּה differ somewhat in shade of meaning and frequency in various writings: e.g. חֹק oftener in Job Psalms Proverbs (חֻקָּה not at all Proverbs, once Job), and in Chronicles (חֻקָּה only 2 Chronicles 7:19); חֻקָּה often in Kings, rarely in Hexateuch except in P (H); in prophets, חֹק occurs Amos 2:4; Isaiah 5:14; Isaiah 24:5; Micah 7:11 Jeremiah + 3 times, Ezekiel + 6 times, חֻקָּה only Ezekiel, Jeremiah (6 times) and Micah 6:16; חֻקִּים especially in Deuteronomy and Psalm 119, חֻקּוֺת especially in H, Ezekiel and sometimes (8 times) Deuteronomy; חֹק עוֺלָם usually ＝due, חֻקַּת ע׳ much more often statute, ordinance, etc.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

26:5; 26:5; 26:5

Exodus

12:14; 12:14; 12:17; 12:43; 13:10; 13:10; 27:21; 28:43; 29:9

Leviticus

3:17; 7:36; 10:9; 16:29; 16:31; 16:34; 17:7; 18:3; 18:4; 18:4; 18:4; 18:5; 18:5; 18:26; 18:26; 18:30; 19:19; 19:37; 19:37; 20:8; 20:22; 20:22; 20:23; 20:23; 20:23; 23:14; 23:21; 23:31; 23:41; 24:3; 25:18; 25:18; 26:3; 26:3; 26:15; 26:15; 26:43; 26:43

Numbers

9:3; 9:12; 9:14; 9:14; 9:14; 10:8; 15:15; 15:15; 18:23; 19:2; 19:10; 19:21; 27:11; 31:21; 35:29

Deuteronomy

6:2; 6:2; 8:11; 8:11; 10:13; 10:13; 11:1; 11:1; 28:15; 28:15; 28:45; 28:45; 30:10; 30:10; 30:16; 30:16

2 Samuel

22:23

1 Kings

2:3; 2:3; 3:3; 3:3; 6:12; 6:12; 9:6; 9:6; 11:11; 11:11; 11:33; 11:33; 11:34; 11:34; 11:38; 11:38

2 Kings

17:8; 17:8; 17:13; 17:13; 17:19; 17:19; 17:34; 17:34; 23:3; 23:3

2 Chronicles

7:19; 7:19; 7:19

Job

38:33

Psalms

18:23; 89:32; 89:32; 119; 119:16

Isaiah

5:14; 24:5

Jeremiah

5:24; 5:24; 10:3; 31:35; 31:35; 33:25; 44:10; 44:10; 44:23; 44:23

Ezekiel

5:6; 5:6; 5:7; 5:7; 11:20; 11:20; 18:9; 18:9; 18:17; 18:17; 18:19; 18:21; 20:11; 20:13; 20:13; 20:16; 20:16; 20:19; 20:19; 20:21; 20:21; 20:24; 20:24; 33:15; 33:15; 37:24; 37:24; 43:11; 43:11; 43:11; 43:18; 44:5; 44:5; 44:24; 44:24; 46:14

Amos

2:4

Micah

6:16; 6:16; 7:11

H2708

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2708 matches the Hebrew חֻקָּה (ḥuqqâ),
which occurs 105 times in 101 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 26:5–Deu 11:1)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5 - Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:14 - And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:17 - So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 - And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no man who is not an Israelite is to take of it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:10 - So let this order be kept, at the right time, from year to year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:21 - Let Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and morning, before the Lord, inside the Tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the ark; this is to be an order for ever, from generation to generation, to be kept by the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - Aaron and his sons are to put these on whenever they go into the Tent of meeting or come near the altar, when they are doing the work of the holy place, so that they may be free from any sin causing death: this is to be an order for him and his seed after him for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:9 - And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:17 - Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:36 - Which the Lord said the children of Israel were to give them, on the day when he made them his priests. It is their right for ever from generation to generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:9 - Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:29 - And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:31 - It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:34 - And let this be an order for ever for you, so that the sin of the children of Israel may be taken away once every year. And he did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:7 - And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:3 - You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:4 - But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:5 - So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26 - So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:19 - Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:37 - You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:8 - And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:22 - So then, keep my rules and my decisions and do them, so that the land which I am giving you as your resting-place may not violently send you out again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:23 - And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:14 - And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21 - And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:31 - You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:41 - And let this feast be kept before the Lord for seven days in the year: it is a rule for ever from generation to generation; in the seventh month let it be kept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:3 - Outside the veil of the ark in the Tent of meeting; let Aaron see that it is burning from evening till morning at all times before the Lord: it is a rule for ever through all your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:18 - So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:3 - If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:3 - In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are to keep it at the regular time, and in the way ordered in the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:8 - The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation to generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:15 - There is to be one law for you and for the man of another country living with you, one law for ever from generation to generation; as you are, so is he to be before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:2 - This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:10 - And he who takes up the dust of the burned cow is to have his clothing washed with water and be unclean till evening: this is to be a law for ever, for the children of Israel as well as for the man from another country who is living among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21 - This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21 - Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:29 - These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2 - So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11 - Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13 - Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1 - So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

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