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Lexicon :: Strong's H2708 - ḥuqqâ

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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 - Because Abraam thy father hearkened to my voice, and kept my injunctions, and my commandments, and my ordinances, and my statutes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:14 - And this day shall be to you a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord through all your generations; ye shall keep it a feast for a perpetual ordinance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:17 - And ye shall keep this commandment, for on this day will I bring out your force out of the land of Egypt; and ye shall make this day a perpetual ordinance for you throughout your generations.

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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 stranger shall eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:10 - And preserve ye this law according to the times of the seasons, [fn]from year to year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:21 - in the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that is [fn]before the ark of the covenant, shall Aaron and his sons burn it from evening until morning, before the Lord: it is a perpetual ordinance [fn]throughout your generations of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - And Aaron shall have them, and his sons, whenever they enter into the tabernacle of witness, or when they shall advance to the altar of the sanctuary to minister, so they shall not bring sin upon themselves, lest they die: it is a perpetual statute for him, and for his seed after him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:9 - And thou shalt gird them with the girdles, and put the tires upon them, and they shall have a priestly office to me for ever; and thou shalt [fn]fill the hands of Aaron and the hands of his sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:17 - It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your habitations; ye shall eat no fat and no blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:36 - as the Lord commanded to give to them in the day in which he anointed them of the sons of Israel, a perpetual statute through their generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:9 - Ye shall not drink wine nor strong drink, thou and thy sons with thee, whensoever ye enter into the tabernacle of witness, or when ye approach the altar, so shall ye not die; it is a perpetual statute for your generations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:29 - And this shall be a perpetual statute for you; in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall humble your souls, and shall do no work, the native and the stranger who abides among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:31 - This shall be to you a most holy sabbath, a rest, and ye shall humble your souls; it is a perpetual ordinance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:34 - And this shall be to you a perpetual statute to make atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins: it shall be done once in the year, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:7 - And they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to vain gods after which they go a whoring; it shall be a perpetual statute to you for your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:3 - Ye shall not do according to the devices of Egypt, in which ye dwelt: and according to the devices of the land of Chanaan, into which I bring you, ye shall not do; and ye shall not walk in their ordinances.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:4 - Ye shall observe my judgments, and shall keep my ordinances, and shall walk in them: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:5 - So ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments, and do them; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26 - And ye shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and ye shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - And ye shall keep mine ordinances, that ye may not do any of the abominable practices, which have taken place before your time: and ye shall not be polluted in them; for I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:19 - Ye shall observe my law: thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with one of a different kind, and thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed; and thou shalt not put upon thyself a mingled garment woven of two materials.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:37 - And ye shall keep all my law and all my ordinances, and ye shall do them: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:8 - And ye shall observe my ordinances, and do them: I am the Lord that sanctifies you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:22 - And keep ye all my ordinances, and my judgments; and ye shall do them, and the land shall not be aggrieved with you, into which I bring you to dwell upon it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:23 - And walk ye not in the customs of the nations which I drive out from before you; for they have done all these things, and I have abhorred them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:14 - And ye shall not eat bread, or the new parched corn, until this same day, until ye offer the sacrifices to your God: it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21 - And ye shall call this day a convocation: it shall be holy to you; ye shall do no servile work on it: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations in all your habitations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:31 - Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your habitations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:41 - It is a perpetual statute for your generations: in the seventh month ye shall keep it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:3 - outside the veil in the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and his sons shall burn it from evening until morning before the Lord continually, a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:18 - And ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments; and do ye observe them, and ye shall keep them, and dwell securely in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:3 - If ye will walk in my ordinances, and keep my commandments, and do them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - but disobey them, and your soul should loathe my judgments, so that ye should not keep all my commands, so as to break my covenant,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - And I will remember the land, and the land shall be left of them; then the land shall enjoy her sabbaths, when it is deserted through them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities, because they neglected my judgments, and in their soul loathed my ordinances.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:3 - On the fourteenth day of the first month at even, thou shalt keep it in its season; thou shalt keep it according to its law, and according to its ordinance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - They shall not leave of it until the morrow, and they shall not break a bone of it; they shall sacrifice it according to the ordinance of the passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - And if there should come to you a stranger in your land, and should keep the passover to the Lord, he shall keep it according to the law of the passover and according to its ordinance: there shall be one law for you, both for the stranger, and for the native of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:8 - And the priests the sons of Aaron shall sound with the trumpets; and it shall be a perpetual ordinance for you throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:15 - There shall be one law for you and for the strangers abiding among you, a perpetual law for your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - And the Levite himself shall perform the service of the tabernacle of witness; and they shall bear their iniquities, it is a perpetual statute throughout their generations; and in the midst of the children of Israel they shall not receive an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:2 - This is the constitution of the law, as the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them take for thee a red heifer without spot, which has no spot on her, and on which no yoke has been put.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:10 - And he that gathers up the ashes of the heifer shall wash his garments, and shall be unclean until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute for the children of Israel and for the strangers joined to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21 - And it shall be to you a perpetual statute; and he that sprinkles the water of sprinkling shall wash his garments; and he that touches the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - And if there be no brethren of his father, ye shall give the inheritance to his nearest relation of his tribe, to inherit his possessions; and this shall be to the children of Israel an ordinance of judgment, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21 - And Eleazar the priest said to the men of the host that came from the battle-array, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:29 - And these things shall be to you for an ordinance of judgment throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2 - That ye may fear the Lord your God, keep ye all his ordinances, and his commandments, which I command thee to-day, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, all the days of thy life, that ye may live many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11 - Take heed to thyself that thou forget not the Lord thy God, so as not to keep his commands, and his judgments, and ordinances, which I command thee this day:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13 - to keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and his ordinances, all that I charge thee to-day, that it may be well with thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1 - Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and shalt observe his appointments, and his ordinances, and his commandments, and his judgments, always.

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