Deuteronomy:4:1-46

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* And now , O Israel , hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee : that doing them , thou mayst live , and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you . * You shall not add to the word that I speak to you , neither shall you take away from it : keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you . * Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor , how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you . * But you that adhere to the Lord your Cad , are all alive until this present day . * You know that I have taught you statutes and justices , as the Lord my God hath commanded me : so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess : * And you shall observe , and fulfil them in practice . For this is your wisdom , and understanding in the sight of nations , that hearing all these precepts , they may say : Behold a wise and understanding people , a great nation . * Neither is there any other nation so great , that hath gods so nigh them , as our God is present to all our petitions . * For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies , and just judgments , and all the law , which I will set forth this day before your eyes ? * Keep thyself therefore , and thy soul carefully . Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen , and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life . Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons , * From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb , when the Lord spoke to me , saying : Call together the people unto me , that they may hear my words , and may learn to fear me all the time that they live on the earth , and may teach their children . * And you came to the foot of the mount , which burned even unto heaven : and there was darkness , and a cloud and obscurity in it . * And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire . You heard the voice of his words , but you saw not any form at all . * And he shewed you his covenant , which he commanded you to do , and the ten words that he wrote in two tables of stone . * And he commanded me at that time that I should teach you the ceremonies and judgments which you shall do in the land , that you shall possess . * Keep therefore your souls carefully . You saw not any similitude in the day that the Lord God spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire : * Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude , or image of male or female , * The similitude of any beasts , that are upon the earth , or of birds , that fly under heaven , * Or of creeping things , that move on the earth , or of fishes , that abide in the waters under the earth : * Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven , thou see the sun and the moon , and all the stars of heaven , and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them , which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations , that are under heaven . * But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace of Egypt , to make you his people of inheritance , as it is this present day . * And the Lord was angry with me for your words , and he swore that I should not pass over the Jordan , nor enter into the excellent land , which he will give you . * Behold I die in this land , I shall not pass over the Jordan : you shall pass , and possess the goodly land . * Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God , which he hath made with thee : and make to thyself a graven likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made : * Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire , a jealous God . * If you shall beget sons and grandsons , and abide in the land , and being deceived , make to yourselves any similitude , committing evil before the Lord your God , to provoke him to wrath : * I call this day heaven and earth to witness , that you shall quickly perish out of the land , which , when you have passed over the Jordan , you shall possess . You shall not dwell therein long , but the Lord will destroy you , * And scatter you among all nations , and you shall remain a few among the nations , to which the Lord shall lead you . * And there you shah serve gods , that were framed with men 's hands : wood and stone , that neither see , nor hear , nor eat , nor smell . * And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God , thou shalt find him : yet so , if thou seek him with all thy heart , and all the affliction of thy soul . * After all the things aforesaid shall and thee , in the latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God , and shalt hear his voice . * Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God : he will not leave thee , nor altogether destroy thee , nor forget the covenant , by which he swore to thy fathers . * Ask of the days of old , that have been before thy time from the day that God created man upon the earth , from one end of heaven to the other end thereof , if ever there was done the like thing , or it hath been known at any time , * That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire , as thou hast heard , and lived : * If God ever did so as to go , and take to himself a nation out of the midst of nations by temptations , signs , and wonders , by fight , and a strong hand , and stretched out arm , and horrible visions according to all the things that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt , before thy eyes . * That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God , and there is no other besides him . * From heaven he made thee to hear his voice , that he might teach thee . And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding great fire , and thou didst hear his words out of the midst of the fire , * Because he loved thy fathers , and chose their seed after them . And he brought thee out of Egypt , going before thee with his great power , * To destroy at thy coming very great nations , and stronger than thou art , and to bring thee in , and give thee their land for a possession , as thou seest at this present day . * Know therefore this day , and think in thy heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above , and in the earth beneath , and there is no other . * Keep his precepts and commandments , which I command thee : that it may be well with thee , and thy children after thee , and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land , which the Lord thy God will give thee . * Then Moses set aside three cities beyond the Jordan at the east side , * That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour unwillingly , and was not his enemy a day or two before , and that he might escape to some one of these cities : * Bosor in the wilderness , which is situate in the plains of the tribe of Ruben : and Ramoth in Galaad , which is in the tribe of Gad : and Golan in Basan , which is in the tribe of Manasses . * This is the law , that Moses set before the children of Israel , * And these are the testimonies and ceremonies and judgments , which he spoke to the children of Israel , when they came out of Egypt , * Beyond the Jordan in the valley over against the temple of Phogor , in the land of Sehon king of the Amorrhites , that dwelt in Hesebon , whom Moses slew . And the children of Israel coming out of Egypt ,

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