Jeremiah 44:10

44:10 To this day your people ¹  have shown no contrition! They have not revered me nor followed the laws and statutes I commanded ²  you and your ancestors.’

Deuteronomy 4:8

4:8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just ³  as this whole law ⁴  that I am about to share with ⁵  you today?

Deuteronomy 4:44

The Setting and Introduction of the Covenant

4:44 This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites. ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 11:32

11:32 Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.

Hebrews 6:18

6:18 so that we who have found refuge in him ⁷  may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

[44:10]  ¹ tn Heb “they” but as H. Freedman (Jeremiah [SoBB], 284) notes the third person is used here to include the people just referred to as well as the current addressees. Hence “your people” or “the people of Judah.” It is possible that the third person again reflects the rhetorical distancing that was referred to earlier in 35:16 (see the translator’s note there for explanation) in which case one might translate “you have shown,” and “you have not revered.”

[44:10]  ² tn Heb “to set before.” According to BDB 817 s.v. פָּנֶה II.4.b(g) this refers to “propounding to someone for acceptance or choice.” This is clearly the usage in Deut 30:15, 19; Jer 21:8 and is likely the case here. However, to translate literally would not be good English idiom and “proposed to” might not be correctly understood, so the basic translation of נָתַן (natan) has been used here.

[4:8]  ³ tn Or “pure”; or “fair”; Heb “righteous.”

[4:8]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew phrase הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת (hattorah hazzo’t), in this context, refers specifically to the Book of Deuteronomy. That is, it is the collection of all the חֻקִּים (khuqqim, “statutes,” 4:1) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim, “ordinances,” 4:1) to be included in the covenant text. In a full canonical sense, of course, it pertains to the entire Pentateuch or Torah.

[4:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “place before.”

[4:44]  ⁶ tn Heb “the sons of Israel” (likewise in the following verse).

[6:18]  ⁷ tn Grk “have taken refuge”; the basis of that refuge is implied in the preceding verse.