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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

Moses continues addressing Israel in the second singular, except for you may multiply greatly, which is plural. Hear therefore, O Israel: Hear is an attention-getter: “Listen to me, people of Israel!”; “Pay attention, Israelites!” This vocative addresses all the people as one individual. “Listen to them” (TEV) departs needlessly from the meaning of the Hebrew text. Be careful to do them: this is a way of saying “Do your best to obey them” (see 5:1). That it may go well with you: obedience will
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