Deuteronomy:4:1-40

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* And now , Israel , hearken to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you , to do [them ], that ye may live , and go in and possess the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers giveth you . * Ye shall not add to the word which I command you , neither shall ye take from it , that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you . * Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-Peor ; for all the men that followed Baal-Peor , Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from among you ; * but ye that did cleave to Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this day . * See , I have taught you statutes and ordinances , even as Jehovah my God commanded me , that ye may do so in the land into which ye enter to possess it . * And ye shall keep and do them ; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples that shall hear all these statutes , and say , Verily this great nation is a wise and understanding people . * For what great nation is there that hath God near to them as Jehovah our God is in everything we call upon him for ? * And what great nation is there that hath righteous statutes and ordinances , as all this law which I set before you this day ? * Only take heed to thyself , and keep thy soul diligently , lest thou forget the things that thine eyes have seen (and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life ; but thou shalt make them known to thy sons and to thy sons ' sons ), * the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb , when Jehovah said to me , Gather me the people together , that I may cause them to hear my words , that they may learn them , and fear me all the days that they live upon the earth , and teach them to their children . * And ye came near and stood under the mountain ; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven , with darkness , clouds , and obscurity . * And Jehovah spoke to you from the midst of the fire : ye heard the voice of the words , but ye saw no form ; only [ye heard ] a voice . * And he declared to you his covenant , which he commanded you to do , the ten words ; and he wrote them on two tables of stone . * And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances , that ye might do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it . * And take great heed to your souls (for ye saw no form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire ), * lest ye corrupt yourselves , and make you a graven image , the form of any figure , the pattern of male or female , * the pattern of any beast that is on the earth , the pattern of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven , * the pattern of anything that creepeth on the ground , the pattern of any fish that is in the waters under the earth ; * and lest thou lift up thine eyes to the heavens , and see the sun , and the moon , and the stars , the whole host of heaven , and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them , which Jehovah thy God hath assigned unto all peoples under the whole heaven . * But you hath Jehovah taken , and hath brought you forth out of the iron furnace , out of Egypt , that ye might be to him a people of inheritance , as it is this day . * And Jehovah was angry with me on your account , and swore that I should not go over the Jordan , and that I should not enter in to that good land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee [for ] an inheritance ; * for I shall die in this land , I shall not go over the Jordan ; but ye shall go over , and possess this good land . * Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God , which he made with you , and make yourselves a graven image , the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee . * For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire , a jealous �God . * When thou begettest sons , and sons ' sons , and ye have remained long in the land , and shall corrupt yourselves , and make a graven image , the form of anything , and do evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God , to provoke him to anger , * I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day , that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it : ye shall not prolong your days on it , but shall be utterly destroyed . * And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples , and ye shall be left a small company among the nations to which Jehovah will lead you . * And ye shall there serve gods , the work of men 's hands , wood and stone , which neither see , nor hear , nor eat , nor smell . * And from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God , and thou shalt find him , if thou shalt seek him with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul . * In thy tribulation , and when all these things shall come upon thee , at the end of days , thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God , and shalt hearken to his voice , * -- for Jehovah thy God is a merciful �God , -- he will not forsake thee , neither destroy thee , nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore unto them . * For ask now of the days that are past , which were before thee , since the day that God created man on the earth , and from one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens , whether there hath been anything as this great thing is , or if anything hath been heard like it ? * Did [ever ] people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire , as thou hast heard , and live ? * Or hath God essayed to come to take him a nation from the midst of a nation , by trials , by signs , and by wonders , and by war , and by a powerful hand , and by a stretched-out arm , and by great terrors , according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes ? * Unto thee it was shewn , that thou mightest know that Jehovah , he is God -- there is none other besides him . * From the heavens he made thee hear his voice , that he might instruct thee ; and on the earth he shewed thee his great fire ; and thou heardest his words from the midst of the fire . * And because he loved thy fathers , and chose their seed after them , he brought thee out with his countenance , with his great power , out of Egypt , * to dispossess nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art , to bring thee in , to give thee their land for an inheritance , as it is this day . * Thou shalt know therefore this day , and consider it in thy heart , that Jehovah , he is God in the heavens above , and on the earth beneath : [there is ] none else . * And thou shalt keep his statutes , and his commandments , which I command thee this day , that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee , and that thou mayest prolong thy days on the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , for ever .

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