Deuteronômio 4:1

Exortação à Obediência

1 “E agora, ó Israel, ouça os decretos e as leis que estou ensinando vocês a cumprir, para que vivam e tomem posse da terra, que o SENHOR, o Deus dos seus antepassados, dá a vocês.

Deuteronômio 4:1 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:1

Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto
the judgments
The laws of God, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which they are exhorted to attend to and obey, in consideration of the great and good things the Lord had done for them, ever since they came from Horeb, where they were given them; such as providing for them, and feeding them in the wilderness, preserving them from every hurtful thing, and delivering their enemies into their hands, the two kings of the Amorites, which they are put in mind of in the preceding chapters; hence this begins with "therefore hearken"; for nothing is a greater incentive to obedience than the kindness and goodness of God:

which I teach you for to do that ye may live;
the law was taught by Moses, but the Gospel of grace and truth by Jesus Christ; and it was taught by him, as well as it was to be hearkened to by them, in order to yield obedience to it; for not bare hearing, but doing the law, is the principal thing of any avail; and which was to be done, that they might live; not a spiritual and eternal life, which are not by the works of the law, but are had only from Christ, through his grace and righteousness; but a corporeal life, and a comfortable enjoyment of the blessings of it, and particularly that that might be continued to them:

and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers
giveth you;
the land of Canaan, which the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, had promised to give to their posterity, and which they were to hold by their obedience to his laws.

Deuteronômio 4:1 In-Context

1 “E agora, ó Israel, ouça os decretos e as leis que estou ensinando vocês a cumprir, para que vivam e tomem posse da terra, que o SENHOR, o Deus dos seus antepassados, dá a vocês.

2 Nada acrescentem às palavras que eu ordeno a vocês e delas nada retirem, mas obedeçam aos mandamentos do SENHOR, o seu Deus, que eu ordeno a vocês.

3 “Vocês viram com os seus próprios olhos o que o SENHOR fez em Baal-Peor. O SENHOR, o seu Deus, destruiu do meio de vocês todos os que seguiram a Baal-Peor,

4 mas vocês, que permaneceram fiéis ao SENHOR, o seu Deus, hoje estão todos vivos.

5 “Eu ensinei a vocês decretos e leis, como me ordenou o SENHOR, o meu Deus, para que sejam cumpridos na terra na qual vocês estão entrando para dela tomar posse.