Deuteronomy 4

1Now, O Israel, listen to the ordinances and judgments I teach you today to observe, that you may live and become numerous and inherit the land the Lord God of your fathers is giving you.

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2You shall not add to the word I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God, all that I command you today.

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3Your eyes saw all the things the Lord our God did at Baal Peor; for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor.

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4But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.

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5'Surely I taught you ordinances and judgments, as the Lord commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land you go to inherit.

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6Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the Gentiles, who will hear all these ordinances and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'

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7For what great nation is there that has God so near to it, as the Lord our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him?

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8'Also, what great nation is there that has such ordinances and righteous judgments as are in all this law I set before you today?

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9Only take heed to yourself and diligently guard your soul, lest you forget all the things your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; and you shall teach them to your sons and the sons of your sons,

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10especially concerning the day you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of assembly, when the Lord said to me, 'Gather the people to Me and let them hear My words, so they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and may teach their sons.'

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11Then you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, gloom, storm, and a great voice.

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12The Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; you only heard a voice.

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13So He declared to you His covenant, the Ten Commandments, which He commanded you to perform; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

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14'Then the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you ordinances and judgments, so you might observe them in the land you are crossing over to inherit.

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15So be careful to guard your souls, for you saw no form when the Lord spoke to you at Horeb on the mountain from the midst of the fire.

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16Do not act lawlessly and make for yourselves a carved form of any image: the likeness of male or female,

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17the likeness of any cattle on the earth, or the likeness of any winged bird that flies under heaven,

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18the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, or the likeness of any fish in the waters beneath the earth.

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19'Also do not act lawlessly when you lift your eyes to heaven and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the adornment of heaven, and you thus go astray and worship and serve them, which the Lord your God assigned to all the nations under heaven.

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20But the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you are this day.

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21Furthermore, the Lord was angry with me about what you said, and swore I would not cross over the Jordan and enter the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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22But I am going to die in this land, thus I am not going to cross over this Jordan; but you will cross over and inherit this good land.

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23Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant the Lord your God made with you and make for yourselves a carved form of anything, concerning which the Lord your God forbade you.

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24For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

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25'If you beget sons and the sons of sons and dwell a long time in the land, and act lawlessly and make a carved form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger,

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26I call heaven and earth to witness to you today that you will be utterly destroyed from the land you are crossing over the Jordan to inherit. You will not live long on it, but will be utterly annihilated.

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27Then the Lord will scatter you among all the nations, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will bring you.

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28There you will serve different gods, the works of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

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29But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul in your tribulation;

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30and all these words will find you at the end of days, when you turn to the Lord your God and obey His voice;

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31for the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not forsake you nor annihilate you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers, which He swore to them.

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32'For ask now concerning former days, before your day, in which God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard.

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33Did any people ever hear the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, in the manner you heard, and live?

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34Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, in testing, signs, wonders, and war, and by a mighty hand and outstretched arm, and by great visions, according to all the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

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35To you it was shown that you might know the Lord your God is God; there is none other besides Him.

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36Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire.

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37Because He loved your fathers, therefore, He chose you their seed after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His great strength,

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38destroying from before your face nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as you have it today.

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39Therefore know today and bear in mind, the Lord your God, this God, is in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other besides Him.

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40You shall therefore guard His ordinances and His commandments I command you today that it may be well with you and with your sons after you, and may prolong your days in the land the Lord your God is giving you to guard all the time.'

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41Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun,

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42so the manslayer who kills his neighbor without foreknowledge, without hating him previously, might flee into one of these cities and live there:

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43Bezer in the desert on the plateau for Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead for Gad, and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.

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44Now this is the law Moses set before the sons of Israel.

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45These are the testimonies, the ordinances, and the judgments Moses spoke to the sons of Israel in the desert after they came out of Egypt,

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46beyond the Jordan, in the valley near Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated after they came out of Egypt.

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47So they inherited his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, beyond the Jordan toward the rising of the sun,

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48from Aroer, which is on the bank of the Arnon River, even to Mount Sion (that is, Hermon),

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49and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, below Asedoth hewn in the rock.

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