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'Day' in the Bible

In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel in accordance with all that the Lord had commanded him to say to them,

Verse ConceptsMonthMonth 11

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and look, today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven.

who went before you along the way, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to seek a place for you to make camp and to show you the way in which you should go.

Verse ConceptsGuardiansJourneyDivine ManifestationsGod Going BeforeGod Appearing In FireLearning The Right WayCamping During The Exodus

‘Today you are to pass through Ar, the border of Moab.

Verse ConceptsRiver Crossings

just as He did for the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them; and the sons of Esau (the Edomites) dispossessed them and settled in their place [and remain there] even to this day.

Verse ConceptsWhere People Live To This Day

This day I will begin to put the dread and the fear of you on the peoples (pagans) under the whole heaven, who, when they hear the reports about you, will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartPessimismAnguish, Causeterrorism

But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to travel through his land; for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to hand him over to you, as he is today.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillHardened HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedStiffnecked PeopleGod Hardening PeoplePeople Unwilling

Jair the son (descendant) of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, that is Bashan, and called it after his own name, Havvoth (the villages of) Jair, as it is called to this day.)

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Things

but you who held tightly to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By God

especially the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb (Mount Sinai), when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect] all the days they live on the land, and so that they may teach their children.’

Verse Conceptsdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleStandingBibleStudentsAssembling IsraelTeaching ChildrenFear God!

“So pay attention and watch yourselves carefully—for you did not see any form [of God] on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire—

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, Of BelieversGod Appearing In FireNot Seeing God

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron [smelting] furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as [you are] this day.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesIron, Figurative Use OfIronPeople Of God, In OtSevere AfflictionsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.

Verse ConceptsHeaven And EarthAnnihilationThings As Witnesses

“Indeed, ask now about the days that are past, [those days] which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

Verse ConceptsCreation Of All MankindMan's Relation To GodEnd Of Days

dispossessing and driving out from before you nations, [nations that were] greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

Therefore know and understand today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord is God in the heavens above and on the earth below; there is no other.

Verse ConceptsGod, Present EverywhereGod, Sovereignty OfGod, Uniqueness OfOrthodoxy, In OtNo Other Is GodThe Lord Is GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am commanding you today, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Verse ConceptsTemporal Blessingsethics, and graceBlessings, To AbrahamOld Age, Attainment OfHow To Live LongEternal PossessionResults Of Keeping The CommandmentsKeep The Commandments!

Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them:“Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments (legal decisions) which I am speaking today in your hearing, so that you may learn them and observe them carefully.

Verse ConceptsCongregationdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleHearingPresent, TheKeep The Commandments!

The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, all of us who are alive here today.

Verse ConceptsAncestorscovenant

‘Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy (set apart, dedicated to God), as the Lord your God commanded you.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalHoly TimesSabbath Observed

but the seventh day is a Sabbath [a day of rest dedicated] to the Lord your God; on that day you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock or the stranger who stays inside your [city] gates, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And Women

You shall remember [with thoughtful concern] that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod, As RedeemerHand Of GodHolidayRememberingCaptivity, Of IsraelAbusive ParentsArm Of GodGod's HandGroups Of SlavesKeeping The SabbathGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

and you said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he [still] lives.

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfGlory Of GodGod Appearing In FireLiving Despite God's Presencegreatness

These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be [written] on your heart and mind.

Verse ConceptsReceptive Hearts

So the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear [and worship] the Lord our God [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect] for our good always and so that He might preserve us alive, as it is today.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And BlessingFear Of God, Results OfSustaining ProvidenceReverence To GodBlessings Of ObedienceFear God!Keep The Commandments!Survivalpreservation

Therefore, you shall keep (follow, obey) the commandment and the statutes and judgments (precepts) which I am commanding you today.

Verse ConceptsPresent, TheKeep The Commandments!

“Every commandment that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, so that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore [to give] to your fathers.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTGod Multipling PeopleLife Through Keeping The LawKeep The Commandments!

But you shall remember [with profound respect] the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore (solemnly promised) to your fathers, as it is this day.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsGiving, Of OneselfAbilityGuardiansMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinMoney, Attitudes ToProfitsRememberingWork, Divine And HumanFinancial AdviceGod Gives WealthGod Keeps CovenantRichesFinancesempowermentBelievers Remembering God

And it shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will most certainly perish.

Verse ConceptsWarningIdolatry Consists OfDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other godsHinduism

So know today [with confident assurance] that the Lord your God is crossing [the Jordan] before you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, and you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has promised you.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAssurance in the life of faithGod DestroyingCrossing Into The Promised Landtoughness

Remember [with remorse] and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day you left the land of Egypt until you arrived in this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelSin, Nature OfPainful Memories

The Lord gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were written all the words which the Lord had spoken to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

Verse ConceptsInscriptionsGod Appearing In FireTwo Stone TabletsGod Writing With His Finger

You have been rebellious against the Lord from the [first] day that I knew you.

Verse ConceptsRebellion against God

The Lord wrote on the tablets, like the first writing, the Ten Commandments which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; then the Lord gave them to me.

Verse ConceptsLaw, Ten CommandmentsTen ThingsGod Appearing In FireThe Law Given By God

At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to serve Him and to bless in His name until this day.

Verse ConceptsLevitesStandingSeparation From Evil PeopleThe Ark Moved AroundCarrying Holy ThingsPeople BlessingStatutes To This DayGod’s Covenant With The Levites

Yet the Lord had a delight in loving your fathers and set His affection on them, and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.

Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofAs At This DayGod's Love For IsraelAffection

Know this day that I am not speaking to your children who have not known [by personal experience] and who have not seen [firsthand] the instruction and discipline of the Lord your God—His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm;

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In OtDiscipline Child

and what He did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and its chariots, when He made the water of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how the Lord completely destroyed them;

Verse ConceptsChariotsHorsesDestroying ChariotsEarthly Armies

“It shall come about, if you listen obediently and pay attention to My commandments which I command you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul [your choices, your thoughts, your whole being]—

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodHeart, And Holy SpiritWhole HeartednessObedience To GodThe Need To Love God

the blessing, if you listen to and obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today;

Verse ConceptsBlessedBlessing And CurseObedienceBlessings From GodObeying Godcommandmentsobeying

and the curse, if you do not listen to and obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by following (acknowledging, worshiping) other gods which you have not known.

Verse ConceptsGod's WaysDisobedience, To GodUnknown GodsThe Curse Of The LawDifferent GodsPenalties For Serving Other GodsObeying Goddisobediencecursesobeying

and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

“You shall not do at all what we are doing here [in the camp] today, every man doing whatever is right in his [own] eyes.

Verse ConceptsAnarchyDoing The Right ThingDoing Your Best

because you have listened to and obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, keeping all His commandments which I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

if only you will listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all these commandments which I am commanding you today.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

You shall not eat leavened bread with it; instead, for seven days you shall eat the Passover with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you left the land of Egypt in haste); [do this] so that all the days of your life you may remember [thoughtfully] the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of Unleavened BreadHolidaySeven DaysRepulsive FoodHasty Action

For seven days no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory, and none of the meat which you sacrificed the evening of the first day shall remain overnight until morning.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of Unleavened BreadSeven DaysOvernight

For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a celebration to the Lord your God; so you shall do no work [on that day].

Verse ConceptsHolidayThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSix DaysDay 7No Work On Feast Days

This is according to all that you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb (Mount Sinai) on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear the voice of the Lord my God again, nor see this great fire anymore, so that I will not die.’

Verse ConceptsAskingDeath Due To God's PresenceFire Emanating From GodRefusing To HearUnhearing

if you keep and carefully observe all these commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God, and to walk [that is, to live each and every day] always in His ways—then you shall add three more cities [of refuge] for yourself, besides these three,

Verse ConceptsThree CitiesWalking In The Ways Of GodIf You Keep The CommandmentsThe Need To Love God

and shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel: you are advancing today to battle against your enemies. Do not lack courage. Do not be afraid, or panic, or tremble [in terror] before them,

Verse ConceptsBattlesAnxiety, Examples OfDo Not Fear Men

then on the day when he wills his possessions to his sons, he cannot treat the son of his loved wife as firstborn in place of the son of the unloved wife—the [actual] firstborn.

Verse ConceptsReal EstateBirthrights

his body shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall most certainly bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is cursed by God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedGallowsHangingHumiliationKillingPollutionsOvernightThe Curse Of The LawPeople Hung To DeathBurying places

You shall give him his wages on the day that he earns them before the sun sets—for he is poor and is counting on it—so that he does not cry out to the Lord against you, and it becomes a sin for you.

Verse ConceptsEveningMastersBusiness EthicsMasters Duties Towards ServantsEmployersSunsetsDebtMoralityGiving Back

You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare this day to the Lord my God that I have entered the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’

Verse ConceptsGod Gave The Land

“This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and judgments (precepts). Therefore, you shall be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul (your entire being).

Verse Conceptsethics, personalethics, and graceHeart, And Holy SpiritWhole HeartednessFulfilling The LawKeep The Commandments!

Today you have [openly] declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk [that is, live each and every day] in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments (precepts), and listen to His voice.

Verse ConceptsAtonement, in OTHe Is Our God

Today the Lord has declared that you are His people, His treasured possession, just as He promised you, and that you are to keep all His commandments;

Verse ConceptsMonogamyPeople Of God, In OtTreasureSpiritual Adoption

So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to [enter] the land which the Lord your God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with plaster (lime, whitewash).

Verse ConceptsPlasterCrossing Into The Promised Land

Now when you cross the Jordan you shall set up these stones on Mount Ebal, just as I am commanding you today and coat them with plaster.

Verse ConceptsPlasterCrossing Into The Promised Land

Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, “Be silent and listen, O Israel! This day you have become a people for the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual AdoptionCurbing Speech

Moses also commanded the people that day, saying,

Verse ConceptsMen's Orders

“Now it shall be, if you diligently listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all of His commandments which I am commanding you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Verse ConceptsBeing In DebtCommitment, to GodWarfare, Examples OfOvertakingGod Lifting PeopleObedienceObeying God

The Lord will make you the head (leader) and not the tail (follower); and you will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen and pay attention to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today, to observe them carefully.

Verse ConceptsTailsHead As ChiefKeep The Commandments!Never Giving Up

Do not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to follow and serve other gods.

Verse ConceptsObedience To GodNot Turning AsideDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other gods

“But it shall come about, if you do not listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Verse ConceptsAtonementethics, incentives towardsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityReward, DivineSowing And ReapingVictory, As An Act Of GodWarfare, Examples OfDisobedience, To GodJewish PersecutionIf You Do Not Keep CommandsObedienceObeying Goddisobedienceconsequencescursesobeying

Your life will hang in doubt before you; night and day you will be filled with anxiety and have no assurance of living.

Verse ConceptsAffliction Day And NightUncertain ThingsFear Of Enemiesbalancereassurance

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart and mind to understand, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

Verse ConceptsEarsHearingSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfRefusing To HearGod BlindingThose Who Were Ignorant

so that He may establish you today as His people and that He may be your God, just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Verse ConceptsAncestorsGod Swearing BlessingsHe Is Our God

but with those [future Israelites] who are not here with us today, as well as with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God

Verse ConceptsFuture Generations

so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the [false] gods of these nations; so that there will not be among you a root [of idolatry] bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood (bitterness).

Verse ConceptsHuman WillFamilies, Nature OfFalse ConfidenceHeart, HumanParticipation, In SinPoisonRootsFruits Of SinBitter FoodBitterness

and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationAs At This Day

“For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach.

Verse ConceptsFar From OneEasy Burdenslawcommandmentsimpossible

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore, you shall choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,

Verse ConceptsAbortionChoicesChoosingHeaven And EarthHell, As Incentive To ActionUniverseLiving WitnessesAppealing To GodSeeking LifeChoosing God's WayBlessing And CurseLife And DeathThings As WitnessesAssisted SuicideDescendants ofLife After DeathFamily Deathcurses

And he said to them, “I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I am no longer able to come in and go out [as your spiritual and military leader], and the Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not cross this Jordan.’

Verse ConceptsGuidance, From Godly PeopleGoing Out And Coming In

Then My anger will be kindled and burn against them in that day, and I will abandon (turn away from) them and hide My face from them. They will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will come on them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have come on us?’

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentAfflictions Of The WickedAnger Of God, ConsequencesReprobatesGod Will Be Angry

But I will certainly hide My face [from them] in that day because of all the evil which they will do, for they will turn to other gods [to worship lifeless idols, to honor handmade relics].

Verse ConceptsGod, Revelation OfSin, Effects OfDifferent Gods

So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsWriting SongsComposersPeople TeachingOld Testament Claims Inspiration

‘Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,In due time their foot will slip;For the day of their disaster is at hand,And their doom hurries to meet them.’

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivinePunishment, Nature OfRetributionRevenge, And RetaliationSeasons, Of LifeGod Executes VengeanceNear The Time GenerallyRevenge

he said to them, “Take to heart all the words of warning which I am speaking to you today; and you shall command your children to observe them carefully—to do all the words of this law.

Verse ConceptsHeart, And Holy SpiritTeaching ChildrenKeep The Commandments!

And the Lord said to Moses that very same day,

Of Benjamin he said,“May the beloved of the Lord dwell in safety by Him;He shields and covers him all the day long,And he dwells between His shoulders.”

Verse ConceptsSolutions To InsecurityRest, PhysicalSafetyShouldersGod's Love For Israel

And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows where his burial place is to this day.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheMoses, Life OfSepulchresAnonymityPlaces To This DayBurying places

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