Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances,
which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and
possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.
{4:2} You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall
you diminish from it, that you may keep the mitzvot of the LORD your
God which I command you. {4:3} Your eyes have seen what the LORD did
because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, the LORD
your God has destroyed them from the midst of you. {4:4} But you who
did cleave to the LORD your God are alive everyone of you this day.
{4:5} Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the
LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the
land where you go in to possess it. {4:6} Keep therefore and do them;
for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the
peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great
nation is a wise and understanding people. {4:7} For what great nation
is there, that has a god so near to them, as the LORD our God is
whenever we call on him? {4:8} What great nation is there, that has
statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set
before you this day? {4:9} Only take heed to yourself, and keep your
soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and
lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make
them known to your children and your children's children; {4:10} the
day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD
said to me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my
words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on
the earth, and that they may teach their children. {4:11} You came
near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire
to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
{4:12} The LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard
the voice of words, but you saw no form; only [you heard] a voice.
{4:13} He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to
perform, even the ten mitzvot; and he wrote them on two tables of
stone. {4:14} The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes
and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over
to possess it. {4:15} Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you
saw no manner of form on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb
out of the midst of the fire. {4:16} Lest you corrupt yourselves, and
make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the
likeness of male or female, {4:17} the likeness of any animal that is
on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
{4:18} the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the
likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; {4:19} and
lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and
the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn
away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has
allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky. {4:20} But the LORD
has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of
Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day. {4:21}
Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that
I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that
good land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance:
{4:22} but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but
you shall go over, and possess that good land. {4:23} Take heed to
yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which
he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of
anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you. {4:24} For the
LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. {4:25} When you
shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have
been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an
engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is
evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger;
{4:26} I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that
you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over
the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but
shall utterly be destroyed. {4:27} The LORD will scatter you among the
peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where
the LORD shall lead you away. {4:28} There you shall serve gods, the
work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor
eat, nor smell. {4:29} But from there you shall seek the LORD your
God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your
heart and with all your soul. {4:30} When you are in oppression, and
all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return
to the LORD your God, and listen to his voice: {4:31} for the LORD
your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you,
nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them. {4:32}
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since
the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the
sky to the other, whether there has been [any such thing] as this
great thing is, or has been heard like it? {4:33} Did ever a people
hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you
have heard, and live? {4:34} Or has God tried to go and take him a
nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by
wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm,
and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for
you in Egypt before your eyes? {4:35} To you it was shown, that you
might know that the LORD he is God; there is none else besides him.
{4:36} Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might
instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you
heard his words out of the midst of the fire. {4:37} Because he loved
your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought
you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; {4:38}
to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to
bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this
day. {4:39} Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that
the LORD he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is
none else. {4:40} You shall keep his statutes, and his mitzvot, which
I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your
children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land,
which the LORD your God gives you, forever. {4:41} Then Moses set
apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; {4:42} that
the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and
didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities
he might live: {4:43} [namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain
country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites;
and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites. {4:44} This is the law which
Moses set before the children of Israel: {4:45} these are the
testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke
to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, {4:46}
beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land
of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and
the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt.
{4:47} They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of
Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan
toward the sunrise; {4:48} from Aroer, which is on the edge of the
valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon), {4:49}
and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the
Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
{5:1} Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel,
the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day,
that you may learn them, and observe to do them. {5:2} The LORD our
God made a covenant with us in Horeb. {5:3} The LORD didn't make this
covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us
here alive this day. {5:4} The LORD spoke with you face to face on the
mountain out of the midst of the fire, {5:5} (I stood between the LORD
and you at that time, to show you the word of the LORD: for you were
afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;)
saying, {5:6} "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. {5:7} You shall have no other
gods before me.
{5:8} "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any
likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: {5:9} you
shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, the LORD,
your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on
the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those
who hate me; {5:10} and showing loving kindness to thousands of those
who love me and keep my mitzvot.
{5:11} "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain:
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
{5:12} "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your
God commanded you. {5:13} Six days shall you labor, and do all your
work; {5:14} but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God:
[in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your
daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox,
nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is
within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may
rest as well as you. {5:15} You shall remember that you were a servant
in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there
by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore the LORD your
God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
{5:16} "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God
commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well
with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
{5:17} "You shall not murder.
{5:18} "Neither shall you commit adultery.
{5:19} "Neither shall you steal.
{5:20} "Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.
{5:21} "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall
you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or
his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your
neighbor's."
{5:22} These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the
mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick
darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on
two tables of stone, and gave them to me. {5:23} It happened, when you
heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain
was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of
your tribes, and your elders; {5:24} and you said, Behold, the LORD
our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard
his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God
does speak with man, and he lives. {5:25} Now therefore why should we
die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the
LORD our God any more, then we shall die. {5:26} For who is there of
all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of
the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? {5:27} Go you near, and
hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak you to us all that
the LORD our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.
{5:28} The LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me;
and the LORD said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this
people, which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that
they have spoken. {5:29} Oh that there were such a heart in them, that
they would fear me, and keep all my mitzvot always, that it might be
well with them, and with their children forever! {5:30} Go tell them,
Return you to your tents. {5:31} But as for you, stand you here by me,
and I will speak to you all the mitzvah, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the
land which I give them to possess it. {5:32} You shall observe to do
therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you: you shall not turn
aside to the right hand or to the left. {5:33} You shall walk in all
the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live,
and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days
in the land which you shall possess.
{6:1} Now this is the mitzvah, the statutes, and the ordinances,
which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them
in the land where you go over to possess it; {6:2} that you might fear
the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his mitzvot, which I
command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of
your life; and that your days may be prolonged. {6:3} Hear therefore,
Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that
you may increase mightily, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has
promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. {6:4} Hear,
Israel: the LORD is our God; the LORD is one: {6:5} and you shall love
the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and
with all your might. {6:6} These words, which I command you this day,
shall be on your heart; {6:7} and you shall teach them diligently to
your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and
when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
{6:8} You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be
for symbols between your eyes. {6:9} You shall write them on the door
posts of your house, and on your gates. {6:10} It shall be, when the
LORD your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and
goodly cities, which you didn't build, {6:11} and houses full of all
good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you
didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you
shall eat and be full; {6:12} then beware lest you forget the LORD,
who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. {6:13} You shall fear the LORD your God; and him shall you
serve, and shall swear by his name. {6:14} You shall not go after
other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you; {6:15}
for the LORD your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the
anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you
from off the face of the earth. {6:16} You shall not tempt the LORD
your God, as you tempted him in Massah. {6:17} You shall diligently
keep the mitzvot of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his
statutes, which he has commanded you. {6:18} You shall do that which
is right and good in the sight of the LORD; that it may be well with
you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD
swore to your fathers, {6:19} to thrust out all your enemies from
before you, as the LORD has spoken. {6:20} When your son asks you in
time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and
the ordinances, which the LORD our God has commanded you? {6:21} then
you shall tell your son, We were Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and
the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; {6:22} and the
LORD showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh,
and on all his house, before our eyes; {6:23} and he brought us out
from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he
swore to our fathers. {6:24} The LORD commanded us to do all these
statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might
preserve us alive, as at this day. {6:25} It shall be righteousness to
us, if we observe to do all this mitzvah before the LORD our God, as
he has commanded us.
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