Deuteronomy:4

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* Now therefore hearken , O Israel , to the statutes and to the judgments , which I teach you , to do them , that ye may live , and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you . * Ye shall not add to the word which I command you , neither shall ye diminish aught from it , that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you . * Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor : for all the men that followed Baal-peor , the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you . * But ye who adhered to 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 ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it . * Keep therefore and do them ; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations , which will hear all these statutes , and say , Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people . * For what nation is there so great , which hath God so nigh to them , as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for ? * And what nation is there so great , that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law , which I set before you this day ? * Only take heed to thyself , and keep thy soul diligently , lest thou shouldst forget the things which thy eyes have seen , and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life : but teach them to thy sons , and thy sons ' sons : * Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb , when the LORD said to me , Assemble the people to me , 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 ye came near and stood under the mountain ; and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven , with darkness , clouds , and thick darkness . * And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire : ye heard the voice of the words , but saw no similitude ; only ye heard a voice . * And he declared to 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 ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it . * Take ye therefore good heed to yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire ; * Lest ye corrupt yourselves , and make to you a graven image , the similitude 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 flieth in the air , * The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground , the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth : * And lest thou shouldst lift up thy eyes to heaven , and when thou seest the sun , and the moon , and the stars , even all the host of heaven , shouldst be driven to worship them , and serve them , which the LORD thy God hath divided to all nations under the whole heaven . * But the LORD hath taken you , and brought you out of the iron furnace , even from Egypt , to be to him a people of inheritance , as ye 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 enter that good land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance : * But I must die in this land , I must not go over Jordan : but ye shall go over , and possess that good land . * Take heed to yourselves , lest ye 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 thy God hath forbidden thee . * For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire , even a jealous God . * When thou shalt beget children , and children 's children , and ye 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 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 the land to which ye go over Jordan to possess it ; ye shall not prolong your days upon it , but shall be utterly destroyed . * And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations , and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen , whither the LORD shall lead you . * And there ye 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 thou shalt seek the LORD thy God , thou shalt find him , if thou shalt seek him with all thy heart , and with all thy soul . * When thou art in tribulation , and all these things have come upon thee , even in the latter days , if thou shalt turn to the LORD thy God , and shalt be obedient to his voice ; * (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God ;) he will not forsake thee , neither destroy thee , nor forget the covenant of thy fathers , which he swore to them . * For ask now of the days that are past , which were before thee , since the day that God created man upon the earth , and ask from the one side of heaven to the other , whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is , or 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 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 an out-stretched arm , and by great terrors , according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes ? * To thee it was shown , that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God ; there is none besides him . * Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice , that he might instruct thee ; and upon earth he showed thee his great fire ; and thou heardst his words from the midst of the fire . * And because he loved thy fathers , therefore he chose their seed after them , and brought thee out of Egypt in his sight with his mighty power . * To drive out 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 . * Know therefore this day , and consider it in thy heart , that the LORD he is God in heaven above , and upon the earth beneath : there is none else . * Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes and his commandments which I command thee this day , that it may be well with thee , and with thy children after thee , and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth , which the LORD thy God giveth thee , for ever . * Then Moses set apart three cities on the side of Jordan , towards the sun-rising ; * That the slayer might flee thither , who should kill his neighbor unawares , and when he had not hated him in times past ; and that fleeing to 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 to the children of Israel , after they came forth from Egypt , * On the east side of Jordan , in the valley over against Beth-Peor , in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites , who dwelt at Heshbon , whom Moses and the children of Israel smote , after they had come forth from Egypt : * And they possessed his land , and the land of Og king of Bashan , two kings of the Amorites , who were on the side of Jordan , towards the sun-rising ; * From Aroer , which is by the bank of the river Arnon , even to mount Sion , which is Hermon , * And all the plain on the side of Jordan eastward , even to the sea of the plain , under the springs of Pisgah .

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