Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
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Gill's Exposition
Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God,.... Said, affirmed, protested, and in the most solemn manner declared, that the Lord was their God, and him only; and that they would have no other…
A brief and earnest exhortation by way of conclusion to the second and longest discourse of the book. Deu 26:17 Thou hast avouched - literally, “made to say:” so also in the next verse. The sense is:…
Two things Moses here urges to enforce all these precepts: - 1. That they were the commands of God, Deu 26:16. They were not the dictates of his own wisdom, nor were they enacted by any authority of…
Cambridge Bible
Thou hast avouched the Lord, etc.] i.e. acknowledged (see Wright's Bible Word Book); lit. caused Jehovah to say that He will be thy God. This form of the Heb. vb. only here and Deu 26:26. It is…
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