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if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
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Blessing is Conditional
All the commentators agree that this verse presents a crucial condition. The promise of national prosperity and the absence of poverty is not automatic; it is directly contingent upon Israel's diligent obedience to God's commands. As scholars explain, Israel's temporal happiness and blessing depended on their careful hearkening to God's voice.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The year of release is no doubt identical with the sabbatical year of the earlier legislation (Exodus 23:10 and following, and Leviticu…
19th Century
Anglican
Only if thou carefully hearken. —Then there will be none among thee in want. So Rashi expounds, in the very spir…
Baptist
For the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: only if thou carefully h…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Ver. 5 Only if you carefully hearken to the voice of the Lord your God , &c.] In his word, and by his prophets; …
This year of release symbolized the grace of the gospel, in which the acceptable year of the Lord is proclaimed, and through which we obtain the re…
