Deuteronomy 5:30

30 Go and say to them, "Return to your tents."

Deuteronomy 5:30 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 5:30

Go say to them, get you into your tents again.
] Which they had left, being brought by Moses, at the direction of God, to the foot of Mount Sinai, to receive the law from his mouth; this being done, they are ordered to return to their tents again, to their families, wives, and children.

Deuteronomy 5:30 In-Context

28 "And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me; and the LORD said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you; they have rightly said all that they have spoken.
29 Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their children for ever!
30 Go and say to them, "Return to your tents."
31 But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.'
32 You shall be careful to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
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