Deuteronomy:4-5
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Now therefore hearken ,
O Israel ,
unto the statutes and unto the judgments ,
which I teach you ,
for to do them ,
that ye may live ,
and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you .
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Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you ,
neither shall ye diminish ought from it ,
that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you .
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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor :
for all the men that followed Baalpeor ,
the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you .
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But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day .
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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 .
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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 .
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For what nation is there so great ,
who hath God so nigh unto them ,
as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for ?
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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 ?
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Only take heed to thyself ,
and keep thy soul diligently ,
lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen ,
and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life :
but teach them thy sons ,
and thy sons '
sons ;
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Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy 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 .
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And ye came near and stood under the mountain ;
and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven ,
with darkness ,
clouds ,
and thick darkness .
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And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire :
ye heard the voice of the words ,
but saw no similitude ;
only ye heard a voice .
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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 .
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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 .
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Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ;
for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire :
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Lest ye corrupt yourselves ,
and make you a graven image ,
the similitude of any figure ,
the likeness of male or female ,
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The likeness of any beast that is on the earth ,
the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air ,
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The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground ,
the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth :
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And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven ,
and when thou seest the sun ,
and the moon ,
and the stars ,
even all the host of heaven ,
shouldest be driven to worship them ,
and serve them ,
which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven .
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But the LORD hath taken you ,
and brought you forth out of the iron furnace ,
even out of Egypt ,
to be unto him a people of inheritance ,
as ye are this day .
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Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes ,
and sware that I should not go over Jordan ,
and that I should not go in unto that good land ,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance :
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But I must die in this land ,
I must not go over Jordan :
but ye shall go over ,
and possess that good land .
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Take heed unto 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 .
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For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire ,
even a jealous God .
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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 :
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I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day ,
that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it ;
ye shall not prolong your days upon it ,
but shall utterly be destroyed .
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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 .
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And there ye shall serve gods ,
the work of men '
s hands ,
wood and stone ,
which neither see ,
nor hear ,
nor eat ,
nor smell .
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But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God ,
thou shalt find him ,
if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul .
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When thou art in tribulation ,
and all these things are come upon thee ,
even in the latter days ,
if thou turn to the LORD thy God ,
and shalt be obedient unto his voice ;
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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 sware unto them .
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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 unto the other ,
whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is ,
or hath been heard like it ?
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Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire ,
as thou hast heard ,
and live ?
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Or hath 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 ?
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Unto thee it was shewed ,
that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God ;
there is none else beside him .
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Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice ,
that he might instruct thee :
and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire ;
and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire .
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And because he loved thy fathers ,
therefore he chose their seed after them ,
and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt ;
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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 .
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Know therefore this day ,
and consider it in thine heart ,
that the LORD he is God in heaven above ,
and upon the earth beneath :
there is none else .
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Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes ,
and his commandments ,
which I command thee this day ,
that it may go 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 .
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Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising ;
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That the slayer might flee thither ,
which should kill his neighbour unawares ,
and hated him not in times past ;
and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live :
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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 .
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And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel :
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These are the testimonies ,
and the statutes ,
and the judgments ,
which Moses spake unto the children of Israel ,
after they came forth out of Egypt ,
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On this side Jordan ,
in the valley over against Bethpeor ,
in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites ,
who dwelt at Heshbon ,
whom Moses and the children of Israel smote ,
after they were come forth out of Egypt :
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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 ;
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From Aroer ,
which is by the bank of the river Arnon ,
even unto mount Sion ,
which is Hermon ,
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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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And Moses called all Israel ,
and said unto them ,
Hear ,
O Israel ,
the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day ,
that ye may learn them ,
and keep ,
and do them .
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The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb .
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The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers ,
but with us ,
even us ,
who are all of us here alive this day .
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The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire ,
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I stood between the LORD and you at that time ,
to shew you the word of the LORD :
for ye were afraid by reason of the fire ,
and went not up into the mount ;)
saying ,
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I am the LORD thy God ,
which brought thee out of the land of Egypt ,
from the house of bondage .
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Thou shalt have none other gods before me .
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Thou shalt not make thee any graven image ,
or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above ,
or that is in the earth beneath ,
or that is in the waters beneath the earth :
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Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them ,
nor serve them :
for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God ,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ,
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And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments .
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Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain :
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain .
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Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it ,
as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee .
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Six days thou shalt labour ,
and do all thy work :
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But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God :
in it thou shalt not do any work ,
thou ,
nor thy son ,
nor thy daughter ,
nor thy manservant ,
nor thy maidservant ,
nor thine ox ,
nor thine ass ,
nor any of thy cattle ,
nor thy stranger that is within thy gates ;
that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou .
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And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt ,
and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm :
therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day .
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Honour thy father and thy mother ,
as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee ;
that thy days may be prolonged ,
and that it may go well with thee ,
in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee .
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Thou shalt not kill .
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Neither shalt thou commit adultery .
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Neither shalt thou steal .
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Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour .
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Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour '
s wife ,
neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour '
s house ,
his field ,
or his manservant ,
or his maidservant ,
his ox ,
or his ass ,
or any thing that is thy neighbour '
s .
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These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire ,
of the cloud ,
and of the thick darkness ,
with a great voice :
and he added no more .
And he wrote them in two tables of stone ,
and delivered them unto me .
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And it came to pass ,
when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness , (
for the mountain did burn with fire ,)
that ye came near unto me ,
even all the heads of your tribes ,
and your elders ;
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And ye said ,
Behold ,
the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness ,
and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire :
we have seen this day that God doth talk with man ,
and he liveth .
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Now therefore why should we die ?
for this great fire will consume us :
if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more ,
then we shall die .
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For who is there of all flesh ,
that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire ,
as we have ,
and lived ?
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Go thou near ,
and hear all that the LORD our God shall say :
and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee ;
and we will hear it ,
and do it .
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And the LORD heard the voice of your words ,
when ye spake unto me ;
and the LORD said unto me ,
I have heard the voice of the words of this people ,
which they have spoken unto thee :
they have well said all that they have spoken .
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O that there were such an heart in them ,
that they would fear me ,
and keep all my commandments always ,
that it might be well with them ,
and with their children for ever !
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Go say to them ,
Get you into your tents again .
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But as for thee ,
stand thou here by me ,
and I will speak unto thee all the commandments ,
and the statutes ,
and the judgments ,
which thou shalt teach them ,
that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it .
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Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you :
ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left .
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Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you ,
that ye may live ,
and that it may be well with you ,
and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess .
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Now these are the commandments ,
the statutes ,
and the judgments ,
which the LORD your God commanded to teach you ,
that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it :
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