מִצְוָה
mits.vah (H4687)
commandment
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# מִצְוָה (Mitzvah): Command and Obligation in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word *mitzvah* (מִצְוָה) denotes a commandment or directive—an authoritative instruction that carries binding force. With 182 occurrences throughout the biblical text, this term represents one of the language's primary vocabularies for expressing obligation and divine instruction. The word functions as a noun that captures the formal act of commanding as well as the content of what is commanded, making it essential to understanding how biblical texts frame rules, laws, and requirements. The high frequency of *mitzvah* across the Hebrew Bible suggests its centrality to biblical thought and practice. It appears in contexts ranging from divine commands to human authorities issuing orders, indicating that the concept of commandment was foundational to how biblical writers understood both religious law and social organization. The term's consistent use throughout the scriptural corpus underscores that obedience to commandments—whether from God or legitimate human authority—formed a core concern of biblical literature and instruction.
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because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,
“ ‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;
“ ‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,
“ ‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,
“If anyone sins, doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
“Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.
“ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,
“ ‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments,
and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
“ ‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments which Yahweh has spoken to Moses—
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.’ ”
It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;
so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Oh that there were such a 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 forever!
But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, 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.”
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;
that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.
You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;
to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess;
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—
the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;
and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.
when you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, to do that which is right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.
if only you diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today.
that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.
and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three.
You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.
Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
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