Deuteronomy:4

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bbe @Deuteronomy:4:1 @And now give ear , O Israel , to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you , and do them ; so that life may be yours , and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord , the God of your fathers , is giving you . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:2 @Make no addition to the orders which I give you , and take nothing from them , but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:3 @Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor : for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:4 @But you who kept faith with the Lord are living , every one of you , today . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:5 @I have been teaching you laws and decisions , as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God , so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:6 @So keep these laws and do them ; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples , who hearing all these laws will say , Truly , this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:7 @For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is , whenever we are turned to him in prayer ? bbe @Deuteronomy:4:8 @And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today ? bbe @Deuteronomy:4:9 @Only take care , and keep watch on your soul , for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life ; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children 's children ; bbe @Deuteronomy:4:10 @That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb , and the Lord said to me , Make all the people come together , so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children bbe @Deuteronomy:4:11 @And you came near , waiting at the foot of the mountain ; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven , with dark clouds , and all was black as night . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:12 @And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire : the sound of his words came to your ears but you saw no form ; there was nothing but a voice . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:13 @And he gave you his agreement with you , the ten rules which you were to keep , which he put in writing on the two stones of the law . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:14 @And the Lord gave me orders at that time to make clear to you these laws and decisions , so that you might do them in the land to which you are going , and which is to be your heritage . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:15 @So keep watch on yourselves with care ; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire : bbe @Deuteronomy:4:16 @So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing , male or female , bbe @Deuteronomy:4:17 @Or any beast of the earth , or winged bird of the air , bbe @Deuteronomy:4:18 @Or of anything which goes flat on the earth , or any fish in the water under the earth . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:19 @And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven , and you see the sun and the moon and the stars , all the army of heaven , do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship , or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:20 @But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire , out of Egypt , to be to him the people of his heritage , as you are today . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:21 @And the Lord was angry with me because of you , and made an oath that I was not to go over Jordan into the good land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage : bbe @Deuteronomy:4:22 @But death is to come to me in this land , I may not go over Jordan : but you will go over and take that good land for your heritage . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:23 @Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God , which he has made with you , go out of your mind , or make for yourselves images of any sort , against the orders which the Lord your God has given you . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:24 @For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire , and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:25 @If , when you have had children and children 's children , and have been living a long time in the land , you are turned to evil ways , and make an image of any sort , and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God , moving him to wrath : bbe @Deuteronomy:4:26 @May heaven and earth be my witnesses against you today , that destruction will quickly overtake you , cutting you off from that land which you are going over Jordan to take ; your days will not be long in that land , but you will come to a complete end . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:27 @And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples ; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:28 @There you will be the servants of gods , made by men 's hands , of wood and stone , having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:29 @But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God , searching for him with all your heart and soul , he will not keep himself from you . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:30 @When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you , if , in the future , you are turned again to the Lord your God , and give ear to his voice : bbe @Deuteronomy:4:31 @Because the Lord your God is a God of mercy , he will not take away his help from you or let destruction overtake you , or be false to the agreement which he made by an oath with your fathers . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:32 @Give thought now to the days which are past , before your time , from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth , and searching from one end of heaven to the other , see if such a great thing as this has ever been , or if anything like it has been talked of in story . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:33 @Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did ? bbe @Deuteronomy:4:34 @Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation , by punishments and signs and wonders , by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear , as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt , before your very eyes ? bbe @Deuteronomy:4:35 @All this he let you see , so that you might be certain that the Lord is God and there is no other . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:36 @Out of heaven itself his voice came to you , teaching you ; and on earth he let you see his great fire ; and his words came to your ears out of the heart of the fire . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:37 @And because of his love for your fathers , he took their seed and made it his , and he himself , present among you , took you out of Egypt by his great power ; bbe @Deuteronomy:4:38 @Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you , to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage , as at this day . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:39 @So today be certain , and keep the knowledge deep in your hearts , that the Lord is God , in heaven on high and here on earth ; there is no other God . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:40 @Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today , so that it may be well for you and for your children after you , and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:41 @Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east ; bbe @Deuteronomy:4:42 @To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate , might go in flight ; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death : bbe @Deuteronomy:4:43 @The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land , in the table-land , for the Reubenites ; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites ; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh . bbe @Deuteronomy:4:44 @This is the law which Moses put before the children of Israel : bbe @Deuteronomy:4:45 @These are the rules and the laws and the decisions which Moses gave to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt ; bbe @Deuteronomy:4:46 @On the far side of Jordan , in the valley facing Beth-peor , in the land of Sihon , king of the Amorites , who was ruling in Heshbon , whom Moses and the children of Israel overcame after they had come out of Egypt : bbe @Deuteronomy:4:47 @And they took his land for a heritage , and the land of Og , king of Bashan , the two kings of the Amorites , whose lands were on the other side of Jordan to the east ; bbe @Deuteronomy:4:48 @From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon as far as Mount Sion , which is Hermon , bbe @Deuteronomy:4:49 @And all the Arabah on the far side of Jordan to the east , as far as the sea of the Arabah under the slopes of Pisgah .

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