Deuteronomy:4

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* Now therefore hearken , O Israel , unto the statutes and unto the judgments , which I teach you , in order to do them , that all of you may live , and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers gives you . * All of you shall not add unto the word which I command you , neither shall all of you diminish ought from it , that all of you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you . * Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor : for all the men that followed Baalpeor , the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you . * But all of you that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day . * Behold , I have taught you statutes and judgments , even as the LORD my God commanded me , that all of you should do so in the land where all of you go to possess it . * Keep therefore and do them ; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations , which shall hear all these statutes , and say , Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people . * For what nation is there so great , who has God so nigh unto them , as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for ? * And what nation is there so great , that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law , which I set before you this day ? * Only take heed to yourself , and keep your soul diligently , lest you forget the things which yours eyes have seen , and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life : but teach them your sons , and your sons ' sons ; * Specially the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb , when the LORD said unto me , Gather me the people together , and I will make them hear my words , that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth , and that they may teach their children . * And all of you came near and stood under the mountain ; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven , with darkness , clouds , and thick darkness . * And the LORD spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire : all of you heard the voice of the words , but saw no embodiment ; only all of you heard a voice . * And he declared unto you his covenant , which he commanded you to perform , even ten commandments ; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone . * And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments , that all of you might do them in the land where all of you go over to possess it . * Take all of you therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for all of you saw no manner of embodiment on the day that the LORD spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire : * Lest all of you corrupt yourselves , and make you a graven image , the embodiment of any figure , the likeness of male or female , * The likeness of any beast that is on the earth , the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air , * The likeness of any thing that creeps on the ground , the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth : * And lest you lift up yours eyes unto heaven , and when you see the sun , and the moon , and the stars , even all the host of heaven , should be driven to worship them , and serve them , which the LORD your God has divided unto all nations under the whole heaven . * But the LORD has taken you , and brought you forth out of the iron furnace , even out of Egypt , to be unto him a people of inheritance , as all of you are this day . * Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes , and swore that I should not go over Jordan , and that I should not go in unto that good land , which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance : * But I must die in this land , I must not go over Jordan : but all of you shall go over , and possess that good land . * Take heed unto yourselves , lest all of you forget the covenant of the LORD your God , which he made with you , and make you a graven image , or the likeness of any thing , which the LORD your God has forbidden you . * For the LORD your God is a consuming fire , even a jealous God . * When you shall brought forth children , and children 's children , and all of you shall have remained long in the land , and shall corrupt yourselves , and make a graven image , or the likeness of any thing , and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God , to provoke him to anger : * I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day , that all of you shall soon utterly perish from off the land unto which all of you go over Jordan to possess it ; all of you shall not prolong your days upon it , but shall utterly be destroyed . * And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations , and all of you shall be left few in number among the heathen , where the LORD shall lead you . * And there all of you shall serve gods , the work of men 's hands , wood and stone , which neither see , nor hear , nor eat , nor smell . * But if from thence you shall seek the LORD your God , you shall find him , if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul . * When you are in tribulation , and all these things are come upon you , even in the latter days , if you turn to the LORD your God , and shall be obedient unto his voice ; * (For the LORD your God is a merciful God ;) he will not forsake you , neither destroy you , nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them . * For ask now of the days that are past , which were before you , since the day that God created man upon the earth , and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other , whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is , or has been heard like it ? * Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire , as you have heard , and live ? * Or has God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation , by temptations , by signs , and by wonders , and by war , and by a mighty hand , and by a stretched out arm , and by great terrors , according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes ? * Unto you it was showed , that you might know that the LORD he is God ; there is none else beside him . * Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice , that he might instruct you : and upon earth he showed you his great fire ; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire . * And because he loved your fathers , therefore he chose their seed after them , and brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt ; * To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you are , to bring you in , to give you their land for an inheritance , as it is this day . * Know therefore this day , and consider it in yours heart , that the LORD he is God in heaven above , and upon the earth beneath : there is none else . * You shall keep therefore 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 upon the earth , which the LORD your God gives you , for ever . * Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising ; * That the slayer might flee thither , which should kill his neighbour unexpectedly , and hated him not in times past ; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live : * Namely , Bezer in the wilderness , in the plain country , of the Reubenites ; and Ramoth in Gilead , of the Gadites ; and Golan in Bashan , of the Manassites . * And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel : * These are the testimonies , and the statutes , and the judgments , which Moses spoke unto the children of Israel , after they came forth out of Egypt . * On this side Jordan , in the valley opposite to Bethpeor , in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites , who dwelt at Heshbon , whom Moses and the children of Israel stroke , after they were come forth out of Egypt : * And they possessed his land , and the land of Og king of Bashan , two kings of the Amorites , which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising ; * From Aroer , which is by the bank of the river Arnon , even unto mount Sion , which is Hermon , * And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward , even unto the sea of the plain , under the springs of Pisgah .

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