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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.
02 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.
03 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.
04 But ye that did cleave unto the Lord
your God are alive every one of you this day.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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?
08 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?
09 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;
10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 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.
15 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:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you
a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the
likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the
earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that
flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth
on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is
in the waters beneath the earth:
19 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.
20 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.
21 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:
22 But I must die in this land, I must not
go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess
that good land.
23 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.
24 For the Lord thy God is a consuming
fire, even a jealous God.
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25 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:
26 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.
27 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.
28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work
of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither
see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 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.
30 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;
31 (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.
32 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?
33 Did ever people hear the voice of God
speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou
hast heard, and live?
34 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?
35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou
mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is
none else beside him.
36 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.
37 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;
38 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.
39 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.
40 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.
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this
side Jordan toward the sunrising;
42 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:
43 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.
44 And this is the law which Moses set
before the children of Israel:
45 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.
46 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:
47 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;
48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the
river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is
Hermon,
49 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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