Deuteronomy 33:4
New International Version
the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.

New Living Translation
Moses gave us the LORD’s instruction, the special possession of the people of Israel.

English Standard Version
when Moses commanded us a law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

Berean Standard Bible
the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.

King James Bible
Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

New King James Version
Moses commanded a law for us, A heritage of the congregation of Jacob.

New American Standard Bible
“Moses issued to us the Law, A possession for the assembly of Jacob.

NASB 1995
“Moses charged us with a law, A possession for the assembly of Jacob.

NASB 1977
“Moses charged us with a law, A possession for the assembly of Jacob.

Legacy Standard Bible
Moses commanded us with a law, A possession for the assembly of Jacob.

Amplified Bible
“Moses commanded us with a law, As a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

Christian Standard Bible
Moses gave us instruction, a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Moses gave us instruction, a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

American Standard Version
Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The Written Law Moshe handed over to us and he gave it as an inheritance to the assembly of Yaquuv.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
the law which Moses charged us, an inheritance to the assemblies of Jacob.

Contemporary English Version
I called a meeting of the tribes of Israel and gave you God's Law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude of Jacob.

English Revised Version
Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Moses gave us these teachings. They belong to the assembly of Jacob.

Good News Translation
We obey the Law that Moses gave us, our nation's most treasured possession.

International Standard Version
Moses commanded with the Law, an inheritance for the community of Jacob.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

Literal Standard Version
Moses has commanded a law for us, | A possession of the assembly of Jacob.

Majority Standard Bible
the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.

New American Bible
Moses charged us with the law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

NET Bible
Moses delivered to us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

New Revised Standard Version
Moses charged us with the law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

New Heart English Bible
Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

Webster's Bible Translation
Moses commanded us a law; even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

World English Bible
Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

Young's Literal Translation
A law hath Moses commanded us, A possession of the assembly of Jacob.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Moses Blesses the Twelve Tribes
3Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words— 4the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob. 5So the LORD became King in Jeshurun when the leaders of the people gathered, when the tribes of Israel came together.…

Cross References
John 7:19
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?"

Deuteronomy 4:2
You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.

Psalm 119:111
Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 147:19
He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.


Treasury of Scripture

Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

Moses

John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 7:19
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

the inheritance

Deuteronomy 9:26-29
I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand…

Psalm 119:72,111
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver…

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(4,5) "[Of] the law which Moses commanded us,

The inheritance of the congregation of Jacob,

When he (Moses) was king in Jeshurun,

In the gathering of the heads of the people,

The tribes of Israel together."

This fourth verse, from its form, is evidently not what Moses said, but an explanatory parenthesis, inserted by the writer, who was probably Joshua. Upon "He was king in Jeshurun," Rashi says, "The Holy One, blessed be He! the yoke of His kingdom is upon them for ever." It may be so. "When the Lord your God was your king," is Samuel's description of the whole history of Israel previous to himself.

The certainty that the King of kings, the Messiah of Israel, was and is the Lawgiver and Teacher, and Keeper of all saints, and that there are none of that character who do not "sit at the feet of Jesus," makes the real meaning of the passage perfectly plain, even though the exact grammatical relation of the clauses may be not beyond dispute.

Verse 4. - Moses here, identifying himself with the people, uses the third person, and includes himself among those to whom the Law was given; cf. Psalm 20, 21, where David not only speaks of himself in the third person, but addresses such prayers for himself as could only be offered by the people for their king (cf. also Judges 5:12, 15; Habakkuk 3:19). Even the inheritance of the congregation. The "even," which the translators of the Authorized Version have inserted here, were better omitted; the words are in apposition to "law." The Law which Moses communicated to Israel was to remain with them as the inheritance f the congregation. The Bishops' Bible and the Geneva Version have, more correctly, "for an inheritance of the congregation."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
the law
תּוֹרָ֥ה (tō·w·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law

that Moses
מֹשֶׁ֑ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

gave
צִוָּה־ (ṣiw·wāh-)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order

us,
לָ֖נוּ (lā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew

the possession
מוֹרָשָׁ֖ה (mō·w·rā·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4181: A possession

of the congregation
קְהִלַּ֥ת (qə·hil·laṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6952: Assembly, congregation

of Jacob.
יַעֲקֹֽב׃ (ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc


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