1 This collocation of technical terms for elements of the covenant text lends support to its importance and also signals a new section of paraenesis in which Moses will exhort Israel to covenant obedience. The Hebrew term מִשְׁמָרוֹת (mishmarot, “obligations”) sums up the three terms that follow—חֻקֹּת (khuqot), מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishppatim), and מִצְוֹת (mitsot).

In other versions

“You shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.

Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.

“Therefore, love the Lord your God and always keep his mandate and his statutes, ordinances, and commands.

“You must love the Lord your God and always obey his requirements, decrees, regulations, and commands.

“And you shall love Yahweh your God, and you shall keep his obligations and his statutes and his regulations and his commandments always.

Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

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