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that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, giveth you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Your eyes have seen what the LORD did in Baal-peor; for all the men that followed the Baal of Peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land whither ye go in to possess it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Observe therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that, when they hear all these statutes, shall say: ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For what great nation is there, that hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is whensoever we call upon Him? <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children’s children; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto 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 upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the LORD spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire; ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form; only a voice. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And He declared unto you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even the ten words; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves—for ye saw no manner of form on the day that the LORD spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire— <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But you hath the LORD taken and brought forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto Him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now the LORD was angered with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but ye are to go over, and possess that good land. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>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, even the likeness of any thing which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For the LORD thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall deal corruptly, and make a graven image, even the form of any thing, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke Him; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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 the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And the LORD shall scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither the LORD shall lead you away. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But from thence ye will seek the LORD thy God; and thou shalt find Him, if thou search after Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>In thy distress, when all these things are come upon thee, in the end of days, thou wilt return to the LORD thy God, and hearken unto His voice; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>for the LORD thy God is a merciful God; He will not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which He swore unto them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For ask now of the days past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Or hath God assayed to go and take Him a nation 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 the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before thine eyes? <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Unto thee it was shown, that thou mightiest know that the LORD, He is God; there is none else beside Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Out of heaven He made thee to hear His voice, that He might instruct thee; and upon earth He made thee to see His great fire; and thou didst hear His words out of the midst of the fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And because He loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with His presence, with His great power, out of Egypt, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>know this day, and lay it to thy heart, that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And thou shalt keep 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 land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever. <p class="section"></p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Then Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>that the manslayer might flee thither, that slayeth his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Bezer in the wilderness, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>beyond the 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, when they came forth out of Egypt; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>and they took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, even unto mount Sion—the same is Hermon— <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Deuteronomy 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../deuteronomy/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Deuteronomy 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/deuteronomy/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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