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# General Information:
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Moses continues speaking to the people of Israel.
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# For if you diligently keep all these commandments that I am commanding you, so as to do them
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"For if you are careful to do everything that I have commanded you"
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# walk in all his ways
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How Yahweh wants a person to live and behave is spoken of as if they are Yahweh's ways or roads. A person obeying Yahweh is spoken of as if he were walking on Yahweh's ways or roads. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# to cling to him
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To have a good relationship with Yahweh and to completely rely on him is spoken of as if the person were clinging to Yahweh. Alternate translation: "to rely on him" or "to have a good relationship with him" Look at how similar words are translated in [Deuteronomy 10:20](../10/20.md). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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