Deuteronomy 4 · Verse 44

Deuteronomy 4:44

And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Deuteronomy 4:44, King James Version

Deuteronomy 4:44 in other translations

BSBThis is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.
WEBThis is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
ASVAnd this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
YLTAnd this is the law which Moses hath set before the sons of Israel;
DARBYAnd this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
BBEThis is the law which Moses put before the children of Israel:
WebsterAnd this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

What does Deuteronomy 4:44 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 4:44-49
44-49. this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel--This is a preface to the rehearsal of the law, which, with the addition of various explanatory circumstances, the following chapters contain.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:41-49

Here is the introduction to another discourse, or sermon, Moses preached to Israel, which we have in the following chapters. He sets the law before them, as the rule they were to work by, the way they were to walk in. He sets it before them, as the glass in which they were to see their natural face, that, looking into this perfect law of liberty, they might continue therein. These are the laws, given when Israel was…

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Deuteronomy 4:44 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְזֹ֖אתve.Zotand thisH2063
הַתּוֹרָ֑הha.to.Rah[is] the lawH8451
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whichH834
שָׂ֣םsamhe setH7760
מֹשֶׁ֔הmo.ShehMosesH4872
לִפְנֵ֖יlif.Nei<to> beforeH6440
בְּנֵ֥יbe.Nei[the] people ofH1121
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל\׃Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478

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Cross references for Deuteronomy 4:44

  • Deuteronomy 27:26

    Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Leviticus 27:34

    These are the commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

  • Malachi 4:4

    Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

  • Deuteronomy 27:8

    And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

  • Deuteronomy 1:5

    On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

  • John 1:17

    For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

  • Deuteronomy 27:3

    And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee.

  • Deuteronomy 33:4

    Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

  • Deuteronomy 17:18-19

    And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites: And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:

  • Numbers 36:13

    These are the commandments and the judgments, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
This is evidently an introduction to the discourse of the subsequent chapters. Moses having practically improved some particulars in the history of Israel, proceeded to repeat and enforce the laws which he had delivered before, with additions and explanations, beginning with the ten commandments.
1:5; 17:18,19; 27:3,8,26; 33:4; Le 27:34; Nu 36:13; Mal 4:4; Joh 1:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Deuteronomy 4:43

    Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

  • Deuteronomy 4:44

    And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

  • Deuteronomy 4:45

    These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,

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Deuteronomy 4:44 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Esta, pues, es la ley que Moisés propuso delante de los hijos de Israel.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		*Et c’est ici la loi que Moïse plaça devant les fils d’Israël;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und dies ist das Gesetz, welches Mose den Kindern Israel vorlegte;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ista est lex, quam proposuit Moyses coram filiis Israël: