"The Anchor Holds In Spite of the Storm"
Pastor: Gaylen Jones
Sunday Service 10:30 A.M.
Wednesday Evening Bible Study and Prayer 7:00 P.M.
PO Box 1926
Clute, Texas 77531
[Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:1-13; Mathew 28:18-20; I Corinthians 10:1-33]
Pastor: Gaylen Jones
Sunday Service 10:30 A.M.
Wednesday Evening Bible Study and Prayer 7:00 P.M.
PO Box 1926
Clute, Texas 77531
[Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:1-13; Mathew 28:18-20; I Corinthians 10:1-33]
An Anchor, when properly placed, holds a marine vessel securely in one location and keeps it from drifting away from the captain’s desired position. Under the teachings of the Holy Spirit of God, what in Hebrew is called the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy), the Five books of Moses serve us as an Anchor to keep us from drifting away from God's good, acceptable and perfect will for our lives.
(Romans 1:1-17; Romans 5:1-2; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-8; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:1-13
At the Anchor, we have come to the understanding, that the daily study of these books, along with the rest of the Scriptures, under the leadership of the Holy Spirit is the way God promised and systematically does place His Word (the oracles of God – see Romans 3:1) in our minds according to the covenant promise. As we go about practicing what He says for us to do, and not practicing what he says for us not to do, these same words become attached or grafted into our hearts. We discover that as we hear and practice doing what we hear [The shema of God - Mark 28:28:34, James 1:21-25), He becomes more and more pleased with what He does through us. Therefore to Him (יהוה) , LORD, YHVH, Yahveh, Jehovah be all the glory for the things He is doing.) As followers of Jesus the Christ (Hebrew – Yehshua Ha Mashiach), our desire is to regard the Law of God (the Torah) in the same way Jesus (Yeshua) did; when he was here. And learn to teach the same specific instructions that his disciples received from him. To continue to practice the same works that he taught them, until he returns. [I John 2:1-16] His disciples were commanded to go into all nations and make disciples. Jesus/Yeshua did not say go into all the nations and make Christians and build churches. Jesus/Yehshua said; "go and make Disciples, teaching them to do what so ever I have commanded you to do." (Mitzvot = "good works")
(Romans 1:1-17; Romans 5:1-2; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-8; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:1-13
At the Anchor, we have come to the understanding, that the daily study of these books, along with the rest of the Scriptures, under the leadership of the Holy Spirit is the way God promised and systematically does place His Word (the oracles of God – see Romans 3:1) in our minds according to the covenant promise. As we go about practicing what He says for us to do, and not practicing what he says for us not to do, these same words become attached or grafted into our hearts. We discover that as we hear and practice doing what we hear [The shema of God - Mark 28:28:34, James 1:21-25), He becomes more and more pleased with what He does through us. Therefore to Him (יהוה) , LORD, YHVH, Yahveh, Jehovah be all the glory for the things He is doing.) As followers of Jesus the Christ (Hebrew – Yehshua Ha Mashiach), our desire is to regard the Law of God (the Torah) in the same way Jesus (Yeshua) did; when he was here. And learn to teach the same specific instructions that his disciples received from him. To continue to practice the same works that he taught them, until he returns. [I John 2:1-16] His disciples were commanded to go into all nations and make disciples. Jesus/Yeshua did not say go into all the nations and make Christians and build churches. Jesus/Yehshua said; "go and make Disciples, teaching them to do what so ever I have commanded you to do." (Mitzvot = "good works")
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Devarim
(Deuteronomy) vezot ha'bracha 33:1-34:12 |
Meaning
this is the blessing |
Day One
11th day of 7th Month 5786 5 September 2025 
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Haftara
Joshua 1:1-18 |
B'rit Hadashah
Acts 1:1-14 |
1 Our Father, we receive Your Words and hide Your commandments with us; 2 we incline our ear unto wisdom, and apply our hearts to understanding; 3 We cry after knowledge and lift up our voices for understanding; 4 we seek it as silver; and search for it as for hidden treasures; 5 We declare that we shall understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. Declaration of Proverbs 2:1-5
Modeh Ani (ּמודה אני)
Pronounced moe-DEH ah-NEE, this Hebrew phrase literally means "I give thanks" and refers to the prayer traditionally recited upon awaking in the morning.
Pronounced moe-DEH ah-NEE, this Hebrew phrase literally means "I give thanks" and refers to the prayer traditionally recited upon awaking in the morning.
Deuteronomy 33:1-12 (NASB)1
1 Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death. 2 He said, "The LORD came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came from the midst of ten thousand holy ones; At His right hand there was flashing lightning for them. 3 "Indeed, He loves the people; All Your holy ones are in Your hand, And they followed in Your steps; Everyone receives of Your words. 4 "Moses charged us with a law, A possession for the assembly of Jacob. 5 "And He was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, The tribes of Israel together. 6 "May Reuben live and not die, Nor his men be few." 7 And this regarding Judah; so he said, "Hear, O LORD, the voice of Judah, And bring him to his people. With his hands he contended for them, And may You be a help against his adversaries." 8 Of Levi he said, "Let Your Thummim and Your Urim belong to Your godly man, Whom You proved at Massah, With whom You contended at the waters of Meribah; 9 Who said of his father and his mother, 'I did not consider them'; And he did not acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he regard his own sons, For they observed Your word, And kept Your covenant. 10 "They shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob, And Your law to Israel. They shall put incense before You, And whole burnt offerings on Your altar. 11 "O LORD, bless his substance, And accept the work of his hands; Shatter the loins of those who rise up against him, And those who hate him, so that they will not rise again." 12 Of Benjamin he said, "May the beloved of the LORD dwell in security by Him, Who shields him all the day, And he dwells between His shoulders."
How ironic that we are at the place in Torah where Moses leaves the nation of Israel, and we're also moving on in the Torah Bite Project without our founder and pastor. His influence reached all the way to Canada from the shores of South Texas (and even to Middlesbrough in England and all), after I met him in a Jews for Jesus chatroom around 1997-1998. The friendship and camaraderie grew on our vacation trips to Galveston and Surfside Beach. We met Gaylen's wife, Maurine, and their family, and grew to also love the extended family at the Anchor Church of which he was pastor. Then, collaboration on the Torah Bites came in March of 2002. Gaylen added the website to the mail-out. I would send my portion a day ahead, and he would put it up on the website. Eventually, the duties of his pastorate led him to leave the website and the commentary in my hands. I then learned the ropes of putting out the daily edition "on the web". I no longer 'renewed' my participation in the project. Before that, every year in September, I would send an email to Gaylen and ask him if he wanted to “renew” our agreement to continue for the next Torah cycle. If there was one who desired to step up or if he had found one who was more qualified, then I was ready to step aside and become one of the readers once again. Every September, I would be given the go-ahead to “re-up”. Our family has been SO blessed over the years by Gaylen and his family and the family we acquired from The Anchor.
We shall move on in our Torah cycle and complete it for this year in this last week. A part of me would prefer to wallow over our loss of Gaylen for a week, but it is likely a better thing to simply push on through into the next cycle. Routine in the midst of disaster can be a help to healing all in itself. This morning, I realized that Gaylen's passing came only a few moments after the official sunset on September 30. To all of us who knew and loved him, how appropriate was that?
I wonder this morning if these last two chapters were written in the absence of Moses. Perhaps Joshua penned these blessings by Moses over the tribes when he was yet grieving for his friend and mentor. He was inspired by Yah to put it all in writing so that later, we who came after could read and see how much prophecy was written within those blessings. Until now, I had never thought of how bereaved Joshua must have been when Moses had to leave! March of 2026 will mark twenty-four years of my participation in this project, and Joshua's loss only dawned on me now. I'm wondering if these blessings were given to all the tribes together, or if the heads of the tribes only were present. It makes sense from what we know about the way blessings were issued in those days that at least the heads of the tribes must have been present.
2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. Deuteronomy 33:2.
These three mountain ranges made an impression on me today. So, I had to check with the professional commentators to see what they had to say about this. Keil and Delitzsch were impressive. There is still a good deal of the 'poetic' about the blessings. See how this passage grabs you. It poetically glorifies Yah.
"Jehovah came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; He shone from the mountains of Paran, and came out of holy myriads, at His right rays of fire to them." To set forth the glory of the covenant which God made with Israel, Moses depicts the majesty and glory in which the Lord appeared to the Israelites at Sinai, to give them the law, and become their king. The three clauses, "Jehovah came from Sinai...from Seir...from the mountains of Paran," do not refer to different manifestations of God (Knobel), but to the one appearance of God at Sinai. Like the sun when it rises, and fills the whole of the broad horizon with its beams, the glory of the Lord, when He appeared, was not confined to one single point, but shone upon the people of Israel from Sinai, and Seir, and the mountains of Paran, as they came from the west to Sinai. The Lord appeared to the people from the summit of Sinai, as they lay encamped at the foot of the mountain. This appearance rose like a streaming light from Seir, and shone at the same time from the mountains of Paran. Seir is the mountain land of the Edomites to the east of Sinai; and the mountains of Paran are in all probability not the mountains of et-Tih, which form the southern boundary of the desert of Paran, but rather the mountains of the Azazimeh, which ascend to a great height above Kadesh, and form the boundary wall of Canaan towards the south. The glory of the Lord, who appeared upon Sinai, sent its beams even to the eastern and northern extremities of the desert.”
The commentators speak of the law coming from Sinai as a “fiery law” in the sense that it came WITH fire and the smells and the atmosphere of heaviness with all that lightning and thunder. It does not imply that the law itself is like a fire, except that perhaps it burns out the iniquity in us if we take it 'internally'. Believers in my churchy past liked to sing that they were not under the law. So, if they aren't under the law, then they must be above the law. When we say that somebody is 'above' the law, that means that it doesn't apply to them and they needn't be 'bothered' with it. After all, it's past and done. Add to that, “it's only for the Jews”. If we consider ourselves as being above the law, it gives the impression that we could be lawless. And yet, we needn't be concerned with being under or above the law, but more concerned to have the law IN us!
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jeremiah 31:33.
Yah’s message to Joshua grounds us in reality!
3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses... 7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. 8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. 9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. Joshua 1:3; 7-9.
Indeed, “this is the blessing”! Moses waxed prophetic in his blessings of the tribes of Israel.
6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few. Deuteronomy 33:6.
Adam Clark stated:
“Let Reuben live, and not die - Though his life and his blessings have been forfeited by his transgression with his father's concubine, Ge 49:3, Ge 49:4; and in his rebellion with Korah, Nu 16:1-3, etc., let him not become extinct as a tribe in Israel.”
Could this be an example of mercy tempering judgment? Reuben did prove to be a bit of a bounder in some ways, and yet there could be enough in his line of descendants who could balance out his error with faithfulness to Yah? Of Judah, Moses spoke:
7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies. Deuteronomy 33:7.
Adam Clarke says this about verse seven:
“1. That the tribe of Judah, conscious of its weakness, shall depend on the Most High, and make prayer and supplication to him; 2. That God will hear such prayer; and, That his hands shall be increased, and that he shall prevail over his enemies. This blessing has a striking affinity with that which this tribe received from Jacob, Ge 49:9; and both may refer to our blessed Lord, who sprang from this tribe, as is noticed on the above passage, who has conquered our deadly foes by his death, and whose praying posterity ever prevail through his might.”
The tribe of Judah could have ended in extinction when his two sons died and he refused to give the third son to Tamar. There isn’t much said about the line of Judah through his third son, Shelah, but what is there in 1 Chronicles.
21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea, 22 And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient things. 23 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. 1 Chronicles 4:21-23.
Shelah did have sons, but no mention is made of his wife. Interestingly, he did name his firstborn Er, the name of his oldest brother (even if he didn’t carry out the Levirate tradition of marrying his brother’s widow). The Word is careful to state that after Judah’s clandestine relationship with Tamar, when he believed her to be a prostitute, he refrained from any sexual contact with her. We find another of the Biblical mysteries where we have plenty of questions but few answers. Did Tamar live as part of the household of Judah (but not in matrimony) because she was raising his twins? And that’s most likely, but it’s a ‘need to know’ situation, and we don’t really need to know at this time! What we do need to know is that the line of Judah was not limited to the twins that came from Tamar. But from this line would come Messiah.
The first twenty verses in the Chronicles, chapter four, are the issue of the twins born between Judah and Tamar. The commentators make note that the lines from Judah were somewhat separate.
Levi receives a large mention. His descendants’ exploits for the Lord are noted. When everyone was turning to their own way in the aftermath of the golden calf incident, Levi would come to the side of God in another descendant called Phinehas, who speared two fornicators in the wake of the orgies between the Moabite women and Israelite men. The whole tribe of Levi came to God through Moshe because Moshe was a kinsman. This is a shadow of the story of mankind. Mankind will come to God through Jesus because He is a kinsman!
12 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders. Deuteronomy 33:12.
Benjamin would live “between his shoulders”. Whose shoulders would those be? Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary explained this:
“12. of Benjamin he said--A distinguishing favor was conferred on this tribe in having its portion assigned near the temple of God. between his shoulders--that is, on his sides or borders. Mount Zion, on which stood the city of Jerusalem, belonged to Judah; but Mount Moriah, the site of the sacred edifice, lay in the confines of Benjamin.”
When we do Bible study, it is so beneficial to have a working knowledge of the geography. When all is said and done, history and context are also important issues to consider. I was listening to last week's Torah selection from Mark Biltz of the El Shaddai fellowship in Seattle, Washington state. I leave the link below, and if you have the time to listen, you'll learn a lot of fascinating things that Mr. Biltz will bring to the surface! I was so glad to get his services downloaded once again to my podcast list. He also delves into the original Hebrew in his presentations, which adds so much richness to the study table. He was the one I learned from about that issue of being under and/or above the law. Does this make as much sense to you as it did to me?
We shall move on in our Torah cycle and complete it for this year in this last week. A part of me would prefer to wallow over our loss of Gaylen for a week, but it is likely a better thing to simply push on through into the next cycle. Routine in the midst of disaster can be a help to healing all in itself. This morning, I realized that Gaylen's passing came only a few moments after the official sunset on September 30. To all of us who knew and loved him, how appropriate was that?
I wonder this morning if these last two chapters were written in the absence of Moses. Perhaps Joshua penned these blessings by Moses over the tribes when he was yet grieving for his friend and mentor. He was inspired by Yah to put it all in writing so that later, we who came after could read and see how much prophecy was written within those blessings. Until now, I had never thought of how bereaved Joshua must have been when Moses had to leave! March of 2026 will mark twenty-four years of my participation in this project, and Joshua's loss only dawned on me now. I'm wondering if these blessings were given to all the tribes together, or if the heads of the tribes only were present. It makes sense from what we know about the way blessings were issued in those days that at least the heads of the tribes must have been present.
2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. Deuteronomy 33:2.
These three mountain ranges made an impression on me today. So, I had to check with the professional commentators to see what they had to say about this. Keil and Delitzsch were impressive. There is still a good deal of the 'poetic' about the blessings. See how this passage grabs you. It poetically glorifies Yah.
"Jehovah came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; He shone from the mountains of Paran, and came out of holy myriads, at His right rays of fire to them." To set forth the glory of the covenant which God made with Israel, Moses depicts the majesty and glory in which the Lord appeared to the Israelites at Sinai, to give them the law, and become their king. The three clauses, "Jehovah came from Sinai...from Seir...from the mountains of Paran," do not refer to different manifestations of God (Knobel), but to the one appearance of God at Sinai. Like the sun when it rises, and fills the whole of the broad horizon with its beams, the glory of the Lord, when He appeared, was not confined to one single point, but shone upon the people of Israel from Sinai, and Seir, and the mountains of Paran, as they came from the west to Sinai. The Lord appeared to the people from the summit of Sinai, as they lay encamped at the foot of the mountain. This appearance rose like a streaming light from Seir, and shone at the same time from the mountains of Paran. Seir is the mountain land of the Edomites to the east of Sinai; and the mountains of Paran are in all probability not the mountains of et-Tih, which form the southern boundary of the desert of Paran, but rather the mountains of the Azazimeh, which ascend to a great height above Kadesh, and form the boundary wall of Canaan towards the south. The glory of the Lord, who appeared upon Sinai, sent its beams even to the eastern and northern extremities of the desert.”
The commentators speak of the law coming from Sinai as a “fiery law” in the sense that it came WITH fire and the smells and the atmosphere of heaviness with all that lightning and thunder. It does not imply that the law itself is like a fire, except that perhaps it burns out the iniquity in us if we take it 'internally'. Believers in my churchy past liked to sing that they were not under the law. So, if they aren't under the law, then they must be above the law. When we say that somebody is 'above' the law, that means that it doesn't apply to them and they needn't be 'bothered' with it. After all, it's past and done. Add to that, “it's only for the Jews”. If we consider ourselves as being above the law, it gives the impression that we could be lawless. And yet, we needn't be concerned with being under or above the law, but more concerned to have the law IN us!
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jeremiah 31:33.
Yah’s message to Joshua grounds us in reality!
3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses... 7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. 8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. 9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. Joshua 1:3; 7-9.
Indeed, “this is the blessing”! Moses waxed prophetic in his blessings of the tribes of Israel.
6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few. Deuteronomy 33:6.
Adam Clark stated:
“Let Reuben live, and not die - Though his life and his blessings have been forfeited by his transgression with his father's concubine, Ge 49:3, Ge 49:4; and in his rebellion with Korah, Nu 16:1-3, etc., let him not become extinct as a tribe in Israel.”
Could this be an example of mercy tempering judgment? Reuben did prove to be a bit of a bounder in some ways, and yet there could be enough in his line of descendants who could balance out his error with faithfulness to Yah? Of Judah, Moses spoke:
7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies. Deuteronomy 33:7.
Adam Clarke says this about verse seven:
“1. That the tribe of Judah, conscious of its weakness, shall depend on the Most High, and make prayer and supplication to him; 2. That God will hear such prayer; and, That his hands shall be increased, and that he shall prevail over his enemies. This blessing has a striking affinity with that which this tribe received from Jacob, Ge 49:9; and both may refer to our blessed Lord, who sprang from this tribe, as is noticed on the above passage, who has conquered our deadly foes by his death, and whose praying posterity ever prevail through his might.”
The tribe of Judah could have ended in extinction when his two sons died and he refused to give the third son to Tamar. There isn’t much said about the line of Judah through his third son, Shelah, but what is there in 1 Chronicles.
21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea, 22 And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient things. 23 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. 1 Chronicles 4:21-23.
Shelah did have sons, but no mention is made of his wife. Interestingly, he did name his firstborn Er, the name of his oldest brother (even if he didn’t carry out the Levirate tradition of marrying his brother’s widow). The Word is careful to state that after Judah’s clandestine relationship with Tamar, when he believed her to be a prostitute, he refrained from any sexual contact with her. We find another of the Biblical mysteries where we have plenty of questions but few answers. Did Tamar live as part of the household of Judah (but not in matrimony) because she was raising his twins? And that’s most likely, but it’s a ‘need to know’ situation, and we don’t really need to know at this time! What we do need to know is that the line of Judah was not limited to the twins that came from Tamar. But from this line would come Messiah.
The first twenty verses in the Chronicles, chapter four, are the issue of the twins born between Judah and Tamar. The commentators make note that the lines from Judah were somewhat separate.
Levi receives a large mention. His descendants’ exploits for the Lord are noted. When everyone was turning to their own way in the aftermath of the golden calf incident, Levi would come to the side of God in another descendant called Phinehas, who speared two fornicators in the wake of the orgies between the Moabite women and Israelite men. The whole tribe of Levi came to God through Moshe because Moshe was a kinsman. This is a shadow of the story of mankind. Mankind will come to God through Jesus because He is a kinsman!
12 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders. Deuteronomy 33:12.
Benjamin would live “between his shoulders”. Whose shoulders would those be? Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary explained this:
“12. of Benjamin he said--A distinguishing favor was conferred on this tribe in having its portion assigned near the temple of God. between his shoulders--that is, on his sides or borders. Mount Zion, on which stood the city of Jerusalem, belonged to Judah; but Mount Moriah, the site of the sacred edifice, lay in the confines of Benjamin.”
When we do Bible study, it is so beneficial to have a working knowledge of the geography. When all is said and done, history and context are also important issues to consider. I was listening to last week's Torah selection from Mark Biltz of the El Shaddai fellowship in Seattle, Washington state. I leave the link below, and if you have the time to listen, you'll learn a lot of fascinating things that Mr. Biltz will bring to the surface! I was so glad to get his services downloaded once again to my podcast list. He also delves into the original Hebrew in his presentations, which adds so much richness to the study table. He was the one I learned from about that issue of being under and/or above the law. Does this make as much sense to you as it did to me?
3 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jeremiah 31:33.
1 NASB www.lockman.org for daily reading and KJV in commentary unless otherwise stated.
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Ten Commandments
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2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
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7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
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8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
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12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
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13 Thou shalt not kill.
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14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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15 Thou shalt not steal.
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16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
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16 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.