📜WEB · Deuteronomy 6:24
What does Deuteronomy 6:24 mean?
"Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today."
— Deuteronomy 6:24 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.
It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
Explanation
Deuteronomy 6:24 comes at the close of a father's answer to his child's question, "What do the statutes, ordinances, and laws mean, which Yahweh our God commanded you?" (6:20). Moses is instructing the people that when their children eventually ask why they keep God's commandments, the parents should explain both the
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