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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 Jehovah, 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 Jehovah your God which I command you.
3 Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal Peor; for all the
men who followed Baal Peor, Jehovah your God has destroyed them from among you.
4 But you who were faithful to Jehovah your God are all alive today.
5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and
ordinances, even as Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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 Jehovah your God in
Horeb, when Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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 Jehovah
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 Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb out
of the middle of the fire, 16 lest you corrupt yourselves, and make
yourself an engraved 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 Jehovah your God has allotted to
all the peoples under the whole sky. 20 But Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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
Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image
in the form of anything which Jehovah your God has forbidden you. 24 For Jehovah
your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
25 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 Jehovah 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 Jehovah
will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among
the nations, where Jehovah will lead you away. 28 There you shall 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 Jehovah your God, and you
shall 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 Jehovah your God, and listen to his
voice. 31 For Jehovah 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.
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 this great
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 Jehovah your God did for you in
Egypt before your eyes? 35 It was shown to you so that you might know that
Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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 Jehovah your God
gives you, forever.
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 unawares, 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 over against
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 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 sunrise; 48 from
Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion
(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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