Deuteronomy:4:1-40
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Now ,
Israel ,
listen to the statutes and to the ordinances ,
which I teach you ,
to do them ;
that you may live ,
and go in and possess the land which Yahweh ,
the God of your fathers ,
gives you .
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You shall not add to the word which I command you ,
neither shall you diminish from it ,
that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you .
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Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor ;
for all the men who followed Baal Peor ,
Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you .
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But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive this day .
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Behold ,
I have taught you statutes and ordinances ,
even as Yahweh my God commanded me ,
that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in 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 peoples ,
who shall hear all these statutes ,
and say , "
Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people ."
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For what great nation is there ,
that has a god so near to them ,
as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him ?
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What great nation is there ,
that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law ,
which I set before you this day ?
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Only take heed to yourself ,
and keep your soul diligently ,
lest you forget the things which your eyes saw ,
and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life ;
but make them known to your children and your children '
s children ;
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the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb ,
when Yahweh said to me , "
Assemble me the people ,
and I will make them hear my words ,
that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth ,
and that they may teach their children ."
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You came near and stood under the mountain ;
and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky ,
with darkness ,
cloud ,
and thick darkness .
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Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire :
you heard the voice of words ,
but you saw no form ;
you only heard a voice .
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He declared to you his covenant ,
which he commanded you to perform ,
even the ten commandments ;
and he wrote them on two tables of stone .
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Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances ,
that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it .
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Take therefore good heed to yourselves ;
for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire .
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Lest you corrupt yourselves ,
and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure ,
the likeness of male or female ,
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the likeness of any animal that is on the earth ,
the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky ,
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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground ,
the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth ;
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and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky ,
and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars ,
even all the army of the sky ,
you are drawn away and worship them ,
and serve them ,
which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky .
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But Yahweh has taken you ,
and brought you forth out of the iron furnace ,
out of Egypt ,
to be to him a people of inheritance ,
as at this day .
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Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes ,
and swore that I should not go over the Jordan ,
and that I should not go in to that good land ,
which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance :
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but I must die in this land ,
I must not go over the Jordan ;
but you shall go over ,
and possess that good land .
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Take heed to yourselves ,
lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God ,
which he made with you ,
and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you .
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For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire ,
a jealous God .
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When you shall father children ,
and children '
s children ,
and you shall have been long in the land ,
and shall corrupt yourselves ,
and make an engraved image in the form of anything ,
and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God ,
to provoke him to anger ;
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I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day ,
that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it ;
you shall not prolong your days on it ,
but shall utterly be destroyed .
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Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples ,
and you shall be left few in number among the nations ,
where Yahweh shall lead you away .
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There you 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 from there you shall seek Yahweh your God ,
and you shall find him ,
when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul .
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When you are in oppression ,
and all these things have come on you ,
in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God ,
and listen to his voice :
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for Yahweh your God is a merciful God ;
he will not fail you ,
neither destroy you ,
nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them .
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For ask now of the days that are past ,
which were before you ,
since the day that God created man on the earth ,
and from the one end of the sky to the other ,
whether there has been anything as this great thing is ,
or has been heard like it ?
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Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire ,
as you have heard ,
and live ?
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Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation ,
by trials ,
by signs ,
and by wonders ,
and by war ,
and by a mighty hand ,
and by an outstretched arm ,
and by great terrors ,
according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes ?
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It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God .
There is no one else besides him .
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Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice ,
that he might instruct you :
and on earth he made you to see his great fire ;
and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire .
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Because he loved your fathers ,
therefore he chose their seed after them ,
and brought you out with his presence ,
with his great power ,
out of Egypt ;
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to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you ,
to bring you in ,
to give you their land for an inheritance ,
as at this day .
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Know therefore this day ,
and lay it to your heart ,
that Yahweh he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath ;
there is none else .
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You shall keep 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 in the land ,
which Yahweh your God gives you ,
forever .
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