Deuteronomy 12:8-10

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁸You ^[a]shall not do according to all we do here [in the camp] this day, every man doing whatever looks right in his own eyes.

⁹For you have not yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God gives you.

¹⁰But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the Lord your God causes you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about so that you dwell in safety,

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 12:8 “It has been too often overlooked that the Law of Moses had a prophetic side. It was given to him and to Israel when they were not in a position to keep it [fully]. It was the law of the land which God would give them. In many ways its observance depended on the completion of the conquest of the land and upon the quietness of the times in which they lived. This prophetic aspect was certainly not unrecognized by the Jews, or they would not (for example) have neglected to dwell in booths at the Feast of Tabernacles from the time of Joshua to Nehemiah (Neh. 8:17)” (Charles J. Ellicott, A Bible Commentary).