Deuteronomy 5:29

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The covenant in Horeb.
The ten commandments.
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Deuteronomy 5:29  (King James Version)
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
 


The language of the original is emphatic: {Mee yittain wehayah levavom zeh lahem,} literally, "Who will give that there may be such a heart in them?" They refuse to receive such a heart from me, who then can supply it?

O that there
Deuteronomy 32:29 Deuteronomy 32:30 Psalms 81:13-15 ; Isaiah 48:18 ; Jeremiah 44:4 ; Ezekiel 33:31 Ezekiel 33:32 ; Matthew 23:37
Luke 19:42 ; 2 Corinthians 5:20 ; 6:1 Hebrews 12:25

keep all:
11:1 Psalms 106:3 ; 119:1-5 Luke 11:28 ; John 15:14 ; Revelation 22:14

that it might:
16 ; 4:40 Deuteronomy 6:3 Deuteronomy 6:18 Deuteronomy 12:25 Deuteronomy 12:28 19:13 22:7 Ruth 3:1 ; Psalms 19:11 ; Isaiah 3:10
Jeremiah 22:14 Jeremiah 22:15 ; Ephesians 6:3 ; James 1:25