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Deuteronomy 17:13

All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

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    All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

  • KJV King James Version

    And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

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Cross-references (3)

Passages linked to Deuteronomy 17:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 13:11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.
  • Deuteronomy 19:20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.
  • Numbers 15:30-31 “ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people. Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’ ”

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Explain this verse (5 sources)

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And all the people shall hear, and fear,.... All…

And all the people shall hear, and fear,.... All the people of Israel in their own cities, and particularly the judges in those cities; they shall hear of what is done to the obstinate and disobedient elder, and shall be afraid to commit the like offence, lest they should come into the same punishment:

and do no more presumptuously; after his example; hence, Jarchi says, they wait till the feast comes, and then put him to death; and so it is said (k), they bring him up to the great sanhedrim which is at Jerusalem, and there keep him until the feast (the next feast), and put him to death at the feast, as it is said:

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all the people shall hear, and fear.

(k) Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 10. sect. 4.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain When thou shalt - He only foresees and foretells…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 17:13. When thou shalt say, I will set…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Pride. Hebrew, "do presumptuously," as the Protestants translate. How…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. hear, and fear] Deu_13:11 (12).

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