מִצְוָה
mits.vah
commandment
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Occurrences in Scripture
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because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Exodus 15:26He 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.”
Exodus 16:28Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
Exodus 20:6and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Exodus 24:12Yahweh 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.”
Leviticus 4:2“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,
Leviticus 4:13“ ‘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;
Leviticus 4:22“ ‘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,
Leviticus 4:27“ ‘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,
Leviticus 5:17“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.
Leviticus 22:31“Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.
Leviticus 26:3“ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,
Leviticus 26:14“ ‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments,
Leviticus 26:15and 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,
Leviticus 27:34These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
Numbers 15:22“ ‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments which Yahweh has spoken to Moses—
Numbers 15:31Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’ ”
Numbers 15:39It 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;
Numbers 15:40so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
Numbers 36:13These 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.
Deuteronomy 4:2You 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.
Deuteronomy 4:40You 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.
Deuteronomy 5:10and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 5:29Oh 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!
Deuteronomy 5:31But 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.”
Deuteronomy 6:1Now 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;
Deuteronomy 6:2that 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.
Deuteronomy 6:17You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
Deuteronomy 6:25It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
Deuteronomy 7:9Know 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,
Deuteronomy 7:11You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.
Deuteronomy 8:1You 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.
Deuteronomy 8:2You 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.
Deuteronomy 8:6You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Deuteronomy 8:11Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;
Deuteronomy 10:13to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
Deuteronomy 11:1Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
Deuteronomy 11:8Therefore 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;
Deuteronomy 11:13It 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,
Deuteronomy 11:22For 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—
Deuteronomy 11:27the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;
Deuteronomy 11:28and 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.
Deuteronomy 13:4You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.
Deuteronomy 13:18when 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.
Deuteronomy 15:5if only you diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today.
Deuteronomy 17:20that 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.
Deuteronomy 19:9and 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.
Deuteronomy 26:13You 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.
Deuteronomy 26:13You 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.
Deuteronomy 26:17You 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.