Numbers 8:20

8:20 So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.

Numbers 29:40

29:40 (30:1) ¹  So Moses told the Israelites everything, just as the Lord had commanded him. ² 

Genesis 6:22

6:22 And Noah did all ³  that God commanded him – he did indeed. ⁴ 

Genesis 7:5

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

Exodus 39:32

Moses Inspects the Sanctuary

39:32 ⁶ So all the work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses – they did it exactly so.

Exodus 39:42

39:42 The Israelites did all the work according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

Deuteronomy 1:3

1:3 However, it was not until ⁷  the first day of the eleventh month ⁸  of the fortieth year ⁹  that Moses addressed the Israelites just as ¹⁰  the Lord had instructed him to do.

Deuteronomy 4:5

4:5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in ¹¹  the land you are about to enter and possess.

Matthew 28:20

28:20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, ¹²  I am with you ¹³  always, to the end of the age.” ¹⁴ 

John 15:14

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

Acts 26:19

26:19 “Therefore, King Agrippa, ¹⁶  I was not disobedient ¹⁷  to the heavenly ¹⁸  vision,

Hebrews 3:5

3:5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s ¹⁹  house ²⁰  as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

Hebrews 11:8

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.

[29:40]  ¹ sn Beginning with 29:40, the verse numbers through 30:16 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 29:40 ET = 30:1 HT, 30:1 ET = 30:2 HT, etc., through 30:16 ET = 30:17 HT. With 31:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[29:40]  ² tn Heb “Moses.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[6:22]  ³ tn Heb “according to all.”

[6:22]  ⁴ tn The last clause seems redundant: “and thus (כֵּן, ken) he did.” It underscores the obedience of Noah to all that God had said.

[7:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to all.”

[39:32]  ⁶ sn The last sections of the book bring several themes together to a full conclusion. Not only is it the completion of the tabernacle, it is the fulfillment of God’s plan revealed at the beginning of the book, i.e., to reside with his people.

[1:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “in” or “on.” Here there is a contrast between the ordinary time of eleven days (v. 2) and the actual time of forty years, so “not until” brings out that vast disparity.

[1:3]  ⁸ sn The eleventh month is Shebat in the Hebrew calendar, January/February in the modern (Gregorian) calendar.

[1:3]  ⁹ sn The fortieth year would be 1406 b.c. according to the “early” date of the exodus. See E. H. Merrill, Kingdom of Priests, 66-75.

[1:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “according to all which.”

[4:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).

[28:20]  ¹² tn The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has been translated here as “remember” (BDAG 468 s.v. 1.c).

[28:20]  ¹³ sn I am with you. Matthew’s Gospel begins with the prophecy that the Savior’s name would be “Emmanuel, that is, ‘God with us,’” (1:23, in which the author has linked Isa 7:14 and 8:8, 10 together) and it ends with Jesus’ promise to be with his disciples forever. The Gospel of Matthew thus forms an inclusio about Jesus in his relationship to his people that suggests his deity.

[28:20]  ¹⁴ tc Most mss (A^c Θ Ë¹³ Ï it sy) have ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”) at the end of v. 20. Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, no good reason exists for the omission of the particle in significant and early witnesses such as א A* B D W ˹ 33 al lat sa.

[15:14]  ¹⁵ 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).

[26:19]  ¹⁶ sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.

[26:19]  ¹⁷ sn I was not disobedient. Paul’s defense is that he merely obeyed the risen Jesus. He was arrested for obeying heavenly direction and preaching the opportunity to turn to God.

[26:19]  ¹⁸ tn According to L&N 1.5, “In Ac 26:19 the adjective οὐράνιος could be interpreted as being related simply to the meaning of οὐρανός^a ‘sky,’ but it seems preferable to regard οὐράνιος in this context as meaning simply ‘from heaven’ or ‘heavenly.’”

[3:5]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “his”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

[3:5]  ²⁰ sn A quotation from Num 12:7.