Deuteronomy 12:1
Good News Translation
"Here are the laws that you are to obey as long as you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. Listen to them!

New Revised Standard Version
These are the statutes and ordinances that you must diligently observe in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to occupy all the days that you live on the earth.

Contemporary English Version
Now I'll tell you the laws and teachings that you have to obey as long as you live. Your ancestors worshiped the LORD, and he is giving you this land.

New American Bible
These are the statutes and ordinances which you must be careful to observe in the land which the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess, throughout the time you live on its soil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the land, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess it all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the land, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess it all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth.

the statues

Deuteronomy 4:1,2,5,45 And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you. . . .

Deuteronomy 6:1,2 These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it: . . .

all the days

Deuteronomy 12:19 Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou livest in the land.

Deuteronomy 4:19 Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven.

1 Kings 8:40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our fathers.

Job 7:1 The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

Psalm 104:33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

Psalm 146:2 Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes:

Context
One Place for Worship
1These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the land, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess it all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth.2Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:9
Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

Deuteronomy 4:10
From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call together the people unto me, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time that they live on the earth, and may teach their children.

Deuteronomy 11:32
See therefore that you fulfil the ceremonies and judgments, which I shall set this day before you.

1 Kings 8:40
That they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our fathers.

Psalm 119:5
O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.

Ezekiel 20:19
I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and observe my judgments, and do them.

Deuteronomy 11:32
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