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Obey them so that you may live, so you may enter and occupy the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Do not add to or subtract from these commands I am giving you. Just obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“You saw for yourself what the LORD did to you at Baal-peor. There the LORD your God destroyed everyone who had worshiped Baal, the god of Peor.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But all of you who were faithful to the LORD your God are still alive today—every one of you.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Look, I now teach you these decrees and regulations just as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you may obey them in the land you are about to enter and occupy.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Obey them completely, and you will display your wisdom and intelligence among the surrounding nations. When they hear all these decrees, they will exclaim, ‘How wise and prudent are the people of this great nation!’<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For what great nation has a god as near to them as the LORD our God is near to us whenever we call on him?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And what great nation has decrees and regulations as righteous and fair as this body of instructions that I am giving you today?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“But watch out! Be careful never to forget what you yourself have seen. Do not let these memories escape from your mind as long as you live! And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children—</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Never forget the day when you stood before the LORD your God at Mount Sinai, where he told me, ‘Summon the people before me, and I will personally instruct them. Then they will learn to fear me as long as they live, and they will teach their children to fear me also.’<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while flames from the mountain shot into the sky. The mountain was shrouded in black clouds and deep darkness.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And the LORD spoke to you from the heart of the fire. You heard the sound of his words but didn’t see his form; there was only a voice.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He proclaimed his covenant—the Ten Commandments —which he commanded you to keep, and which he wrote on two stone tablets.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">It was at that time that the LORD commanded me to teach you his decrees and regulations so you would obey them in the land you are about to enter and occupy. A Warning against Idolatry<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“But be very careful! You did not see the LORD’s form on the day he spoke to you from the heart of the fire at Mount Sinai.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So do not corrupt yourselves by making an idol in any form—whether of a man or a woman,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">an animal on the ground, a bird in the sky,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">a small animal that scurries along the ground, or a fish in the deepest sea.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And when you look up into the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the forces of heaven—don’t be seduced into worshiping them. The LORD your God gave them to all the peoples of the earth.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Remember that the LORD rescued you from the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt in order to make you his very own people and his special possession, which is what you are today.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“But the LORD was angry with me because of you. He vowed that I would not cross the Jordan River into the good land the LORD your God is giving you as your special possession.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You will cross the Jordan to occupy the land, but I will not. Instead, I will die here on the east side of the river.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For I must die in this land; I must not go over the Jordan. But you shall go over and take possession of that good land.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So be careful not to break the covenant the LORD your God has made with you. Do not make idols of any shape or form, for the LORD your God has forbidden this.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the LORD your God has forbidden you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The LORD your God is a devouring fire; he is a jealous God.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“In the future, when you have children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time, do not corrupt yourselves by making idols of any kind. This is evil in the sight of the LORD your God and will arouse his anger.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Today I call on heaven and earth as witnesses against you. If you break my covenant, you will quickly disappear from the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy. You will live there only a short time; then you will be utterly destroyed.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the LORD will scatter you among the nations, where only a few of you will survive.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">There, in a foreign land, you will worship idols made from wood and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But from there you will search again for the LORD your God. And if you search for him with all your heart and soul, you will find him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“In the distant future, when you are suffering all these things, you will finally return to the LORD your God and listen to what he tells you.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the solemn covenant he made with your ancestors. There Is Only One God<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Now search all of history, from the time God created people on the earth until now, and search from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything as great as this ever been seen or heard before?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Has any nation ever heard the voice of God speaking from fire—as you did—and survived?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Has any other god dared to take a nation for himself out of another nation by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, a strong hand, a powerful arm, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, right before your eyes.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“He showed you these things so you would know that the LORD is God and there is no other.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext2">To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He let you hear his voice from heaven so he could instruct you. He let you see his great fire here on earth so he could speak to you from it.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Because he loved your ancestors, he chose to bless their descendants, and he personally brought you out of Egypt with a great display of power.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He drove out nations far greater than you, so he could bring you in and give you their land as your special possession, as it is today.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext2">driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“So remember this and keep it firmly in mind: The LORD is God both in heaven and on earth, and there is no other.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="btext2">know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If you obey all the decrees and commands I am giving you today, all will be well with you and your children. I am giving you these instructions so you will enjoy a long life in the land the LORD your God is giving you for all time.” Eastern Cities of Refuge<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Moses set apart three cities of refuge east of the Jordan River.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Anyone who killed another person unintentionally, without previous hostility, could flee there to live in safety.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="btext2">that the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="btext1">These were the cities: Bezer on the wilderness plateau for the tribe of Reuben; Ramoth in Gilead for the tribe of Gad; Golan in Bashan for the tribe of Manasseh. Introduction to Moses’ Second Address<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="btext1">This is the body of instruction that Moses presented to the Israelites.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="btext2">This is the law that Moses set before the people of Israel.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><span class="btext1">These are the laws, decrees, and regulations that Moses gave to the people of Israel when they left Egypt,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><span class="btext2">These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and as they camped in the valley near Beth-peor east of the Jordan River. (This land was formerly occupied by the Amorites under King Sihon, who ruled from Heshbon. But Moses and the Israelites destroyed him and his people when they came up from Egypt.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><span class="btext2">beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the people of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Israel took possession of his land and that of King Og of Bashan—the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And they took possession of his land and the land of Og, the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Israel conquered the entire area from Aroer at the edge of the Arnon Gorge all the way to Mount Sirion, also called Mount Hermon.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span><span class="btext2">from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount Sirion (that is, Hermon),</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And they conquered the eastern bank of the Jordan River as far south as the Dead Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah.)<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span><span class="btext2">together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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