Genesis 7:5

7:5 And Noah did all ¹  that the Lord commanded him.

Genesis 7:9

7:9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah, ²  just as God had commanded him. ³ 

Genesis 7:16

7:16 Those that entered were male and female, ⁴  just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

Genesis 17:23

17:23 Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) ⁵  and circumcised them ⁶  on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

Exodus 40:16

40:16 This is what Moses did, according to all the Lord had commanded him – so he did.

Exodus 40:19

40:19 Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:21

40:21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung ⁷  the protecting curtain, ⁸  and shielded the ark of the testimony from view, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:23

40:23 And he set the bread in order on it ⁹  before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:25

40:25 Then he set up the lamps before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:27

40:27 and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:32

40:32 Whenever they entered ¹⁰  the tent of meeting, and whenever they approached ¹¹  the altar, they would wash, ¹²  just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Deuteronomy 12:32

Idolatry and False Prophets

12:32 (13:1) ¹³  You ¹⁴  must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it! ¹⁵ 

Matthew 7:24-27

Hearing and Doing

7:24 “Everyone ¹⁶  who hears these words of mine and does them is like ¹⁷  a wise man ¹⁸  who built his house on rock. 7:25 The rain fell, the flood ¹⁹  came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock. 7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 7:27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!” ²⁰ 

John 2:5

2:5 His mother told the servants, “Whatever he tells you, do it.” ²¹ 

John 15:14

15:14 You are my friends ²²  if you do what I command you.

Hebrews 11:7-8

11:7 By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard ²³  constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

11:8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.

Hebrews 11:1

People Commended for Their Faith

11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.

Hebrews 5:3-4

5:3 and for this reason he is obligated to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people. 5:4 And no one assumes this honor ²⁴  on his own initiative, ²⁵  but only when called to it by God, ²⁶  as in fact Aaron was.

[7:5]  ¹ tn Heb “according to all.”

[7:9]  ² tn The Hebrew text of vv. 8-9a reads, “From the clean animal[s] and from the animal[s] which are not clean and from the bird[s] and everything that creeps on the ground, two two they came to Noah to the ark, male and female.”

[7:9]  ³ tn Heb “Noah”; the pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “Those that went in, male and female from all flesh they went in.”

[17:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “Ishmael his son and all born in his house and all bought with money, every male among the men of the house of Abraham.”

[17:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “circumcised the flesh of their foreskin.” The Hebrew expression is somewhat pleonastic and has been simplified in the translation.

[40:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “set up,” if it includes more than the curtain.

[40:21]  ⁸ tn Or “shielding” (NIV); Heb “the veil of the covering” (cf. KJV).

[40:23]  ⁹ tn Heb uses a cognate accusative construction, “he arranged the arrangement.”

[40:32]  ¹⁰ tn The construction is the infinitive construct with the temporal preposition and the suffixed subjective genitive. This temporal clause indicates that the verb in the preceding verse was frequentative.

[40:32]  ¹¹ tn This is another infinitive construct in a temporal clause.

[40:32]  ¹² tn In this explanatory verse the verb is a customary imperfect.

[12:32]  ¹³ sn Beginning with 12:32, the verse numbers through 13:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 12:32 ET = 13:1 HT, 13:1 ET = 13:2 HT, 13:2 ET = 13:3 HT, etc., through 13:18 ET = 13:19 HT. With 14:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[12:32]  ¹⁴ tn This verse highlights a phenomenon found throughout Deuteronomy, but most especially in chap. 12, namely, the alternation of grammatical singular and plural forms of the pronoun (known as Numeruswechsel in German scholarship). Critical scholarship in general resolves the “problem” by suggesting varying literary traditions – one favorable to the singular pronoun and the other to the plural – which appear in the (obviously rough) redacted text at hand. Even the ancient versions were troubled by the lack of harmony of grammatical number and in this verse, for example, offered a number of alternate readings. The MT reads “Everything I am commanding you (plural) you (plural) must be careful to do; you (singular) must not add to it nor should you (singular) subtract form it.” Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate suggest singular for the first two pronouns but a few Smr mss propose plural for the last two. What both ancient and modern scholars tend to overlook, however, is the covenantal theological tone of the Book of Deuteronomy, one that views Israel as a collective body (singular) made up of many individuals (plural). See M. Weinfeld, Deuteronomy 1–11 (AB), 15-16; J. A. Thompson, Deuteronomy (TOTC), 21-23.

[12:32]  ¹⁵ sn Do not add to it or subtract from it. This prohibition makes at least two profound theological points: (1) This work by Moses is of divine origination (i.e., it is inspired) and therefore can tolerate no human alteration; and (2) the work is complete as it stands (i.e., it is canonical).

[7:24]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.

[7:24]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.

[7:24]  ¹⁸ tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anhr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") in vv. 48 and 49.

[7:25]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “the rivers.”

[7:27]  ²⁰ tn Grk “and great was its fall.”

[2:5]  ²¹ tn The pronoun “it” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied. Direct objects in Greek were often omitted when clear from the context.

[15:14]  ²² sn This verse really explains John 15:10 in another way. Those who keep Jesus’ commandments are called his friends, those friends for whom he lays down his life (v. 13). It is possible to understand this verse as referring to a smaller group within Christianity as a whole, perhaps only the apostles who were present when Jesus spoke these words. Some have supported this by comparing it to the small group of associates and advisers to the Roman Emperor who were called “Friends of the Emperor.” Others would see these words as addressed only to those Christians who as disciples were obedient to Jesus. In either case the result would be to create a sort of “inner circle” of Christians who are more privileged than mere “believers” or average Christians. In context, it seems clear that Jesus’ words must be addressed to all true Christians, not just some narrower category of believers, because Jesus’ sacrificial death, which is his act of love toward his friends (v. 13) applies to all Christians equally (cf. John 13:1).

[11:7]  ²³ tn Cf. BDAG 407 s.v. εὐλαβέομαι 2, “out of reverent regard (for God’s command).”

[5:4]  ²⁴ sn Honor refers here to the honor of the high priesthood.

[5:4]  ²⁵ tn Grk “by himself, on his own.”

[5:4]  ²⁶ tn Grk “being called by God.”