Deut 4
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And now, Israel, hear the ordinances and judgements, all that I teach you this day
to do: that you may live, and be multiplied, and that you may go in and inherit the
land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives you.
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You shall not add to the word which I command you, and you shall not take from it:
keep the commandments of the Lord our God, all that I command you this day.
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Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God did in the case of Beel-phegor; for
every man that went after Beel-phegor, the Lord your God has utterly destroyed him
from among you.
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But you that kept close to the Lord your God are all alive to-day.
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Behold, I have shewn you ordinances and judgements as the Lord commanded me, that
you should do so in the land into which you go to inherit it.
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And you shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all
nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this
great nation is a wise and understanding people.
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For what manner of nation is so great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our
God is in all things in whatever we may call upon him?
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And what manner of nation is so great, which has righteous ordinances and judgements
according to all this law, which I set before you this day?
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Take heed to yourself, and keep your Gr. soul heart diligently: forget not any of the things, which your eyes have seen, and
let
them not depart from your heart all the days of your life; and you shall teach your
sons and your sons’ sons,
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even the things that happened in the day in which you stood before the Lord our God
in Choreb in the day of the assembly; for the Lord said to me, Gather the people to
me, and let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days which
they live upon the earth, and they shall teach their sons.
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And you drew nigh and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire
up to heaven: there was darkness, blackness, and tempest.
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And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire a voice of words, which you
heard: and you saw no likeness, only you heard a voice.
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And he announced to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep, even the ten
Gr. words or sayings commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
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And the Lord commanded me at that time, to teach you ordinances and judgements, that
you should do them on the land, into which you go to inherit it.
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And take good heed to your hearts, for you saw no similitude in the day in which the
Lord spoke to you in Choreb in the mountain out of the midst of the fire:
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lest you transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the
likeness of male or female,
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the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged
bird which flies under heaven,
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the likeness of any reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of
those which are in the waters under the earth;
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and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the
stars, and all the Gr. order of heaven heavenly bodies, you should go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the
Lord your God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.
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But God took you, and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,
out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
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And the Lord God was angry with me for the things said by you, and swore that I should
not go over this Jordan, and that I should not enter into the land, which the Lord
your God gives you for an inheritance.
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For Gr. I die I am to die in this land, and shall not pass over this Jordan; but you are to pass
over, and shall inherit this good land.
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Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which he
made with you, and you transgress, and make to yourselves a graven image of any of
the things concerning which the Lord your God commanded you.
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For Heb 12:29 the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
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And when you shall have engendered sons, and shall have sons’ sons, and you shall
have dwelt a long time on the land, and shall have transgressed, and made a graven
image of any thing, and shall have done wickedly before the Lord your God to provoke
him;
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I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall surely perish
from off the land, into which you go across Jordan to inherit it there; you shall
not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly cut off.
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And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and you shall be left few in number
among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.
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And you shall there serve other gods, the works of the hands of men, wood and stones,
which Gr. shall not see, etc. cannot see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell.
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And there you shall seek the Lord your God, and you shall find him whenever you shall
seek him with all Gr. your your heart, and with all your affliction your soul in.
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And Gr. all these words shall find you; Hebraism all these things shall come upon you in the last days, and you shall turn
to the
Lord your God, and shall hearken to his voice.
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Because the Lord your God is a God of pity: he will not forsake you, nor destroy you;
he will not forget the covenant of your fathers, which the Lord swore to them.
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Ask of the former days which were before you, from the day when God created man upon
the earth, and beginning at the one end of heaven to the other end of heaven, if there
has happened any thing like to this great event, if such a thing has been heard:
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if a nation have heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the
fire, as you have heard and have lived;
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if God has tried to go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of another nation
with trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand,
and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which the
Lord our God did in Egypt Gr. before you seeing in your sight.
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So that you should know that the Lord your God he is God, and there is none beside
him.
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His voice was made audible from heaven to instruct you, and he shewed you upon the
earth his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
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Because he loved your fathers, he also chose you their seed after them, and he brought
you himself with his great strength out of Egypt,
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to destroy nations Or, greater great and stronger than you before your face, to bring you in, to give you their
land to inherit, as you have it this day.
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And you shall know this day, and shall consider in your heart, that the Lord your
God he is God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath, and there is none else but
he.
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And keep you his commandments, and his ordinances, all that I command you this day;
that it may be well with you, and with your sons after you, that you may be long-lived
upon the earth, which the Lord your God gives you for ever.
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Then Moses separated three cities beyond Jordan on the east,
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that the slayer might flee there, who should have slain his neighbour unintentionally,
and should not have hated him Gr. before yesterday and the third day; Hebraism in times past, and he shall flee to one of
these cities and live:
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Bosor in the wilderness, in the plain country of Ruben, and Ramoth in Galaad belonging
to Or, the Gaddite Gad, and Gaulon in Basan belonging to Manasse.
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This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
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These are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgements, which Moses spoke
to the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt:
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on i. e. the east side the other side of Jordan, in the valley near the house of Phogor, in the land of
Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel
smote when they came out of the land of Egypt.
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And they inherited his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, two kings of the Amorites,
who were beyond Jordan eastward.
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From Aroer, which is on the border of the brook Arnon, even to the mount of Seon,
which is Aermon.
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All Heb. the plain Araba beyond Jordan eastward under Asedoth Or, the quarried rock; Heb. Ashdoth Pisgah hewn in the rock.