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DEUTERONOMY
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Chapter 4
Deut RWebster 4:1  Now therefore hearken, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
Deut RWebster 4:2  Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish any thing from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Deut RWebster 4:3  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.
Deut RWebster 4:4  But ye who held fast to the LORD your God are alive each one of you this day.
Deut RWebster 4:5  Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land where ye go to possess it.
Deut RWebster 4:6  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.
Deut RWebster 4:7  For what nation is there so great, which hath God so near to them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for ?
Deut RWebster 4:8  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?
Deut RWebster 4:9  Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou shouldest forget the things which thy eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them to thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
Deut RWebster 4:10  Especially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Gather the people to me, 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.
Deut RWebster 4:11  And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
Deut RWebster 4:12  And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
Deut RWebster 4:13  And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Deut RWebster 4:14  And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land where ye go over to possess it.
Deut RWebster 4:15  Take ye therefore good heed to yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
Deut RWebster 4:16  Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make to you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deut RWebster 4:17  The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
Deut RWebster 4:18  The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Deut RWebster 4:19  And lest thou shouldest lift up thy eyes to 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 to all nations under the whole heaven.
Deut RWebster 4:20  But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, even from Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Deut RWebster 4:21  Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not enter that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
Deut RWebster 4:22  But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
Deut RWebster 4:23  Take heed to 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.
Deut RWebster 4:24  For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Deut RWebster 4:25  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:
Deut RWebster 4:26  I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from the land where ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly destroyed.
Deut RWebster 4:27  And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you.
Deut RWebster 4:28  And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Deut RWebster 4:29  But if from there thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Deut RWebster 4:30  When thou art in tribulation, and all these things have come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou shalt turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient to his voice;
Deut RWebster 4:31  (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 swore to them.
Deut RWebster 4:32  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 to the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Deut RWebster 4:33  Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Deut RWebster 4:34  Or hath God ever tried to go and take for himself 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 an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deut RWebster 4:35  To thee it was shown, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none besides him.
Deut RWebster 4:36  Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words from the midst of the fire.
Deut RWebster 4:37  And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out of Egypt; in his sight with his mighty power;
Deut RWebster 4:38  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.
Deut RWebster 4:39  Know therefore this day, and consider it in thy heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Deut RWebster 4:40  Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may be 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.
Deut RWebster 4:41  Then Moses set apart three cities on the side of Jordan toward the sunrising;
Deut RWebster 4:42  That the slayer might flee there, who should kill his neighbour unintentionally, and when he had not hated him in times past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
Deut RWebster 4:43  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.
Deut RWebster 4:44  And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Deut RWebster 4:45  These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, after they came forth from Egypt,
Deut RWebster 4:46  On the east side of Jordan, in the valley opposite Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they had come forth from Egypt:
Deut RWebster 4:47  And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on the side of Jordan toward the sunrising;
Deut RWebster 4:48  From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even to mount Sion, which is Hermon,
Deut RWebster 4:49  And all the plain on the side of Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.