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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 commandments 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 were faithful to the LORD your God are all alive 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; you only heard a voice. {4:13} He declared to you his
covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten
commandments; 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 kind 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 have 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 anything as this great thing is, or has been
heard like it? {4:33} Did a people ever 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 a nation for himself 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} It was shown to you so that you might know that the
LORD is God. There is no one 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 commandments, 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}
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, any
likeness of what is in heaven above, or what 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 commandments.
{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} You shall labor six days, and do all your
work; {5:14} but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, in
which 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 near, and hear
all that the LORD our God shall say: and tell us all that the LORD our
God shall tell 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 commandments always, that it might
be well with them, and with their children forever!
{5:30} "Go tell them, Return to your tents. {5:31} But as for you,
stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment, 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 commandment, 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 commandments,
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 you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name. {6:14} You shall
not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around
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 commandments 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 do the
testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God
has commanded you mean?" {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
commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us."
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