Deuteronomy 4 – Bible | Equip God’s People

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^[1] 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. ^[2] You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you. ^[3] Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you. ^[4] But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today. ^[5] Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it. ^[6] 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.” ^[7] For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him? ^[8] What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today? ^[9] Only be careful, 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— ^[10] the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, 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.” ^[11] You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. ^[12] Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice. ^[13] He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets. ^[14] 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. ^[15] Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire, ^[16] lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, ^[17] the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, ^[18] the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; ^[19] 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. ^[20] But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today. ^[21] 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; ^[22] but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land. ^[23] Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you. ^[24] For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. ^[25] When you father children and children’s children, and you have been long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to provoke him to anger, ^[26] I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed. ^[27] Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away. ^[28] There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. ^[29] But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. ^[30] 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. ^[31] For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them. ^[32] 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 great as this thing is, or has been heard like it? ^[33] Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live? ^[34] Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ^[35] It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him. ^[36] Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire. ^[37] Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; ^[38] 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 it is today. ^[39] Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else. ^[40] 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 which Yahweh your God gives you for all time. ^[41] Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, ^[42] that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: ^[43] Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites. ^[44] This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel. ^[45] These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt, ^[46] beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt. ^[47] They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; ^[48] from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Zion (also called Hermon), ^[49] and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

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^[1] Now therefore hearken,H8085(QalImpv) O Israel,H3478 unto the statutesH2706 and unto the judgments,H4941 which I teachH3925(PielPtc) you, for to doH6213(QalInf) [them], that ye may live,H2421(QalImpf) and go inH935(QalPerf) and possessH3423(QalPerf) the landH776 which the LordH3068 GodH430 of your fathersH1 givethH5414(QalActPtc) you. ^[2] Ye shall not addH3254(HiphImpf) unto the wordH1697 which I commandH6680(PielPtc) you, neither shall ye diminishH1639(QalImpf) [ought] from it, that ye may keepH8104(QalInf) the commandmentsH4687 of the LordH3068 your GodH430 which I commandH6680(PielPtc) you. ^[3] Your eyesH5869 have seenH7200(QalActPtc) what the LordH3068 didH6213(QalPerf) because of Baalpeor:H1187 for all the menH376 that followedH310 Baalpeor,H1187 the LordH3068 thy GodH430 hath destroyedH8045(HiphPerf) them from amongH7130 you. ^[4] But ye that did cleaveH1695 unto the LordH3068 your GodH430 [are] aliveH2416 every one of you this day.H3117 ^[5] Behold,H7200(QalImpv) I have taughtH3925(PielPerf) you statutesH2706 and judgments,H4941 even asH834 the LordH3068 my GodH430 commandedH6680(PielPerf) me, that ye should doH6213(QalInf) so inH7130 the landH776 whither ye goH935(QalActPtc) to possessH3423(QalInf) it. ^[6] KeepH8104(QalPerf) therefore and doH6213(QalPerf) [them]; for this [is] your wisdomH2451 and your understandingH998 in the sightH5869 of the nations,H5971 which shall hearH8085(QalImpf) all these statutes,H2706 and say,H559(QalPerf) Surely this greatH1419 nationH1471 [is] a wiseH2450 and understandingH995(NiphPtc) people.H5971 ^[7] For what nationH1471 [is there so] great,H1419 who [hath] GodH430 [so] nighH7138 unto them, as the LordH3068 our GodH430 [is] in all [things that] we callH7121(QalInf) upon him [for]? ^[8] And what nationH1471 [is there so] great,H1419 that hath statutesH2706 and judgmentsH4941 [so] righteousH6662 as all this law,H8451 which I setH5414(QalActPtc) beforeH6440 you this day?H3117 ^[9] Only take heedH8104(NiphImpv) to thyself, and keepH8104(QalImpv) thy soulH5315 diligently,H3966 lest thou forgetH7911(QalImpf) the thingsH1697 which thine eyesH5869 have seen,H7200(QalPerf) and lest they departH5493(QalImpf) from thy heartH3824 all the daysH3117 of thy life:H2416 but teachH3045(HiphPerf) them thy sons,H1121 and thy sons’H1121 sons;H1121 ^[10] [Specially] the dayH3117 that thou stoodestH5975(QalPerf) beforeH6440 the LordH3068 thy GodH430 in Horeb,H2722 when the LordH3068 saidH559(QalInf) unto me, GatherH6950 me the peopleH5971 together,H6950(HiphImpv) and I will make them hearH8085(HiphImpf) my words,H1697 that they may learnH3925(QalImpf) to fearH3372(QalInf) me all the daysH3117 that they shall liveH2416 upon the earth,H127 and [that] they may teachH3925(PielImpf) their children.H1121 ^[11] And ye came nearH7126(QalImpf) and stoodH5975(QalImpf) under the mountain;H2022 and the mountainH2022 burnedH1197(QalActPtc) with fireH784 unto the midstH3820 of heaven,H8064 with darkness,H6205 clouds,H6051 and thick darkness.H2822 ^[12] And the LordH3068 spakeH1696(PielImpf) unto you out of the midstH8432 of the fire:H784 ye heardH8085(QalActPtc) the voiceH6963 of the words,H1697 but sawH7200(QalActPtc) no similitude;H8544 onlyH2108 [ye heard] a voice.H6963 ^[13] And he declaredH5046(HiphImpf) unto you his covenant,H1285 which he commandedH6680(PielPerf) you to perform,H6213(QalInf) [even] tenH6235 commandments;H1697 and he wroteH3789(QalImpf) them upon twoH8147 tablesH3871 of stone.H68 ^[14] And the LordH3068 commandedH6680(PielPerf) me at that timeH6256 to teachH3925(PielInf) you statutesH2706 and judgments,H4941 that ye might doH6213(QalInf) them in the landH776 whither ye go overH5674(QalActPtc) to possessH3423(QalInf) it. ^[15] Take ye therefore goodH3966 heedH8104(NiphPerf) unto yourselves;H5315 for ye sawH7200(QalPerf) no manner of similitudeH8544 on the dayH3117 [that] the LordH3068 spakeH1696(PielInf) unto you in HorebH2722 out of the midstH8432 of the fire:H784 ^[16] Lest ye corruptH7843(HiphImpf) [yourselves], and makeH6213(QalPerf) you a graven image,H6459 the similitudeH8544 of any figure,H5566 the likenessH8403 of maleH2145 or female,H5347 ^[17] The likenessH8403 of any beastH929 that [is] on the earth,H776 the likenessH8403 of any wingedH3671 fowlH6833 that fliethH5774(QalImpf) in the air,H8064 ^[18] The likenessH8403 of any thing that creepethH7430(QalActPtc) on the ground,H127 the likenessH8403 of any fishH1710 that [is] in the watersH4325 beneathH8478 the earth:H776 ^[19] And lest thou lift upH5375(QalImpf) thine eyesH5869 unto heaven,H8064 and when thou seestH7200(QalPerf) the sun,H8121 and the moon,H3394 and the stars,H3556 [even] all the hostH6635 of heaven,H8064 shouldest be drivenH5080(NiphPerf) to worshipH7812(HithPerf) them, and serveH5647(QalPerf) them, which the LordH3068 thy GodH430 hath dividedH2505(QalPerf) unto all nationsH5971 under the whole heaven.H8064 ^[20] But the LordH3068 hath takenH3947(QalPerf) you, and brought you forthH3318(HiphImpf) out of the ironH1270 furnace,H3564 [even] out of Egypt,H4714 to be unto him a peopleH5971 of inheritance,H5159 as [ye are] this day.H3117 ^[21] Furthermore the LordH3068 was angryH599(HithPerf) with me for your sakes,H1697 and swareH7650(NiphImpf) that I should not go overH5674(QalInf) Jordan,H3383 and that I should not goH935(QalInf) in unto that goodH2896 land,H776 which the LordH3068 thy GodH430 givethH5414(QalActPtc) thee [for] an inheritance:H5159 ^[22] But I must dieH4191(QalPtc) in this land,H776 I must not go overH5674(QalActPtc) Jordan:H3383 but ye shall go over,H5674(QalActPtc) and possessH3423(QalPerf) that goodH2896 land.H776 ^[23] Take heedH8104(NiphImpv) unto yourselves, lest ye forgetH7911(QalImpf) the covenantH1285 of the LordH3068 your God,H430 which he madeH3772(QalPerf) with you, and makeH6213(QalPerf) you a graven image,H6459 [or] the likenessH8544 of anyH3605 [thing], which the LordH3068 thy GodH430 hath forbiddenH6680(PielPerf) thee. ^[24] For the LordH3068 thy GodH430 [is] a consumingH398(QalActPtc) fire,H784 [even] a jealousH7067 God.H410 ^[25] When thou shalt begetH3205(HiphImpf) children,H1121 and children’sH1121 children,H1121 and ye shall have remained longH3462(NiphPerf) in the land,H776 and shall corruptH7843(HiphPerf) [yourselves], and makeH6213(QalPerf) a graven image,H6459 [or] the likenessH8544 of any [thing], and shall doH6213(QalPerf) evilH7451 in the sightH5869 of the LordH3068 thy God,H430 to provoke him to anger:H3707(HiphInf) ^[26] I callH5749 heavenH8064 and earthH776 to witnessH5749(HiphPerf) against you this day,H3117 that ye shall soonH4118 utterlyH6(QalInf) perishH6(QalImpf) from off the landH776 whereunto ye go overH5674(QalActPtc) JordanH3383 to possessH3423(QalInf) it; ye shall not prolongH748(HiphImpf) [your] daysH3117 upon it, but shall utterlyH8045(NiphInf) be destroyed.H8045(NiphImpf) ^[27] And the LordH3068 shall scatterH6327(HiphPerf) you among the nations,H5971 and ye shall be leftH7604(NiphPerf) fewH4962 in numberH4557 among the heathen,H1471 whither the LordH3068 shall leadH5090(PielImpf) you. ^[28] And there ye shall serveH5647(QalPerf) gods,H430 the workH4639 of men’sH120 hands,H3027 woodH6086 and stone,H68 which neither see,H7200(QalImpf) nor hear,H8085(QalImpf) nor eat,H398(QalImpf) nor smell.H7306(HiphImpf) ^[29] But if from thence thou shalt seekH1245(PielPerf) the LordH3068 thy God,H430 thou shalt findH4672(QalPerf) [him], if thou seekH1875(QalImpf) him with all thy heartH3824 and with all thy soul.H5315 ^[30] When thou art in tribulation,H6862 and all these thingsH1697 are comeH4672(QalPerf) upon thee, [even] in the latterH319 days,H3117 if thou turnH7725(QalPerf) to the LordH3068 thy God,H430 and shalt be obedientH8085(QalPerf) unto his voice;H6963 ^[31] (For the LordH3068 thy GodH430 [is] a mercifulH7349 God;H410) he will not forsakeH7503(HiphImpf) thee, neither destroyH7843(HiphImpf) thee, nor forgetH7911(QalImpf) the covenantH1285 of thy fathersH1 which he swareH7650(NiphPerf) unto them. ^[32] For askH7592(QalImpv) now of the daysH3117 that are past,H7223 which wereH1961(NiphPerf) beforeH6440 thee, since the dayH3117 that GodH430 createdH1254(QalPerf) manH120 upon the earth,H776 and [ask] from the one sideH7097 of heavenH8064 unto the other, whether there hath been [any such thing] as this greatH1419 thingH1697 [is], or hath been heardH8085(NiphPerf) like it? ^[33] Did [ever] peopleH5971 hearH8085(QalPerf) the voiceH6963 of GodH430 speaking outH1696(PielPtc) of the midstH8432 of the fire,H784 as thou hast heard,H8085(QalPerf) and live?H2421(QalImpf) ^[34] Or hath GodH430 assayedH5254(PielPerf) to goH935(QalInf) [and] takeH3947(QalInf) him a nationH1471 from the midstH7130 of [another] nation,H1471 by temptations,H4531 by signs,H226 and by wonders,H4159 and by war,H4421 and by a mightyH2389 hand,H3027 and by a stretched outH5186(QalPasPtc) arm,H2220 and by greatH1419 terrors,H4172 according to all that the LordH3068 your GodH430 didH6213(QalPerf) for you in EgyptH4714 before your eyes?H5869 ^[35] Unto thee it was shewed,H7200(HophPerf) that thou mightest knowH3045(QalInf) that the LordH3068 he [is] God;H430 [there is] none elseH5750 beside him.H905 ^[36] Out of heavenH8064 he made thee to hearH8085(HiphPerf) his voice,H6963 that he might instructH3256(PielInf) thee: and upon earthH776 he shewedH7200(HiphPerf) thee his greatH1419 fire;H784 and thou heardestH8085(QalPerf) his wordsH1697 out of the midstH8432 of the fire.H784 ^[37] And because he lovedH157(QalPerf) thy fathers,H1 therefore he choseH977(QalImpf) their seedH2233 afterH310 them, and brought thee outH3318(HiphImpf) in his sightH6440 with his mightyH1419 powerH3581 out of Egypt;H4714 ^[38] To drive outH3423(HiphInf) nationsH1471 from beforeH6440 thee greaterH1419 and mightierH6099 than thou [art], to bringH935(HiphInf) thee in, to giveH5414(QalInf) thee their landH776 [for] an inheritance,H5159 as [it is] this day.H3117 ^[39] KnowH3045(QalPerf) therefore this day,H3117 and considerH7725(HiphPerf) [it] in thine heart,H3824 that the LordH3068 he [is] GodH430 in heavenH8064 above,H4605 and upon the earthH776 beneath: [there is] none else. ^[40] Thou shalt keepH8104(QalPerf) therefore his statutes,H2706 and his commandments,H4687 which I commandH6680(PielPtc) thee this day,H3117 that it may go wellH3190(QalImpf) with thee, and with thy childrenH1121 afterH310 thee, and that thou mayest prolongH748(HiphImpf) [thy] daysH3117 upon the earth,H127 which the LordH3068 thy GodH430 givethH5414(QalActPtc) thee, for ever. ^[41] Then MosesH4872 severedH914(HiphImpf) threeH7969 citiesH5892 on this sideH5676 JordanH3383 toward the sunrising;H8121 ^[42] That the slayerH7523(QalActPtc) might fleeH5127(QalInf) thither, which should killH7523(QalImpf) his neighbourH7453 unawares,H1097 and hatedH8130(QalActPtc) him not in timesH8543 past;H8032 and that fleeingH5127(QalPerf) unto oneH259 of theseH411 citiesH5892 he might live:H2425(QalPerf) ^[43] [Namely], BezerH1221 in the wilderness,H4057 in the plainH4334 country,H776 of the Reubenites;H7206 and RamothH7216 in Gilead,H1568 of the Gadites;H1425 and GolanH1474 in Bashan,H1316 of the Manassites.H4520 ^[44] And this [is] the lawH8451 which MosesH4872 setH7760(QalPerf) beforeH6440 the childrenH1121 of Israel:H3478 ^[45] These [are] the testimonies,H5713 and the statutes,H2706 and the judgments,H4941 which MosesH4872 spakeH1696(PielPerf) unto the childrenH1121 of Israel,H3478 after they came forthH3318(QalInf) out of Egypt,H4714 ^[46] On this sideH5676 Jordan,H3383 in the valleyH1516 over againstH4136 Bethpeor,H1047 in the landH776 of SihonH5511 kingH4428 of the Amorites,H567 who dweltH3427(QalActPtc) at Heshbon,H2809 whom MosesH4872 and the childrenH1121 of IsraelH3478 smote,H5221(HiphPerf) after they were come forthH3318(QalInf) out of Egypt:H4714 ^[47] And they possessedH3423(QalImpf) his land,H776 and the landH776 of OgH5747 kingH4428 of Bashan,H1316 twoH8147 kingsH4428 of the Amorites,H567 which [were] on this sideH5676 JordanH3383 toward the sunrising;H4217 ^[48] From Aroer,H6177 which [is] by the bankH8193 of the riverH5158 Arnon,H769 even unto mountH2022 Sion,H7865 which [is] Hermon,H2768 ^[49] And all the plainH6160 on this sideH5676 JordanH3383 eastward,H4217 even unto the seaH3220 of the plain,H6160 under the springsH794 of Pisgah.H6449

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