Deuteronomio 4:1-2

Now therefore ; rather And now . With this Moses passes from referring to what God had done for Israel to admonish Israel as to what they had to do as the subjects of God and the recipients of his favor. They were to give heed to all the statutes and judgments which Moses, as the servant of God, had taught them, in order that they might do them. Statutes ( חֻקִּים ), the things prescribed or enacted by law, whether moral, ritual, or civil; judgments ( מִשְׁפָטִים ), rights , whether public or private, all that each could claim as his due, and all he was bound to render to God or to his fellow-men as their due. These two comprehend the whole Law as binding on Israel. On the doing of these by the people depended life ; these had been made known to them, not merely for their information, but specifically that they might do them, and thereby have life; not long life in the Promised Land alone, though this also is included ( Deuteronomy 4:40 ; Deuteronomy 5:33 ; Deuteronomy 6:2 , etc.), but that higher life, that life which man lives "by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord" ( Deuteronomy 8:3 ; cf. Le Deuteronomy 18:5 ; Ezekiel 20:11 ; Matthew 4:4 ), that spiritual life which is in God's favor ( Psalms 30:5 ). Enjoying this life as the fruit of obedience, they should also possess as their inheritance the laud promised to their fathers.