Deuteronomy - 5:30



30 "Go tell them, Return to your tents.

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 5:30.

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Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
Go, say to them, Return to your tents again.
'Go, say to them, Turn back for yourselves, to your tents;
Now say to them, Go back to your tents.
Vade, dic eis, Revertimini in tabernacula vestra.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Go say to them. He more plainly subjoins God's consent to the people's prayer; as much as to say, that what they had asked was ratified by God's decree; whence it follows that, if they refuse to obey Moses, they will not be only guilty of perverseness and levity, but will violate a divine decree. I have before shown why God honors the doctrines of the law by various titles, viz., that the Israelites may more willingly acquiesce in them. But, lest they should think that what was enjoined them was only to remain in force, and to be observed for a short time, He expressly refers to the perpetuity of the Law; for this is the import of the words, in which He declares Himself to teach them what they were to do in the land which He should give them.

Go say to them, get you into your tents again. Which they had left, being brought by Moses, at the direction of God, to the foot of Mount Sinai, to receive the law from his mouth; this being done, they are ordered to return to their tents again, to their families, wives, and children.

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