New American Standard Bible 1995

Deuteronomy 4:1-9

1“Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which 1I am teaching you to perform, so that 2you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2 3You shall not add to the word which 4I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 5Your eyes have seen what the Lord has done in the case of Baal-peor, for all the men who followed Baal-peor, the Lord your God has destroyed 6them from among you. 4But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.

5“See, I have taught you statutes and judgments 7just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it. 6So keep and do them, 8for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ 7For 9what great nation is there that has a god 10so near to it as is the Lord our God 11whenever we call on Him? 8Or what great nation is there that has 12statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?

9“Only 13give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart 14all the days of your life; but 15make them known to your sons and your grandsons.

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Notes

1. Deuteronomy 4:1 Deut 1:3 ↩
2. Deuteronomy 4:1 Lev 18:5; Deut 5:33; 8:1; 16:20; 30:16, 19; Ezek 20:11; Rom 10:5 ↩
3. Deuteronomy 4:2 Deut 12:32; Prov 30:6; Rev 22:18 ↩
4. Deuteronomy 4:2 Deut 4:5, 14, 40 ↩
5. Deuteronomy 4:3 Num 25:1-9 ↩
6. Deuteronomy 4:3 Lit him ↩
7. Deuteronomy 4:5 Lev 26:46; 27:34 ↩
8. Deuteronomy 4:6 Deut 30:19, 20; 32:46, 47; Job 28:28; Ps 19:7; 111:10; Prov 1:7; 2 Tim 3:15 ↩
9. Deuteronomy 4:7 Deut 4:32-34; 2 Sam 7:23 ↩
10. Deuteronomy 4:7 Ps 34:17, 18; 145:18; 148:14; Is 55:6 ↩
11. Deuteronomy 4:7 Ps 34:18; 85:9 ↩
12. Deuteronomy 4:8 Ps 89:14; 97:2; 119:144, 160, 172 ↩
13. Deuteronomy 4:9 Deut 4:23; 6:12; 8:11, 14, 19; Prov 4:23; 23:19 ↩
14. Deuteronomy 4:9 Deut 6:2; 12:1; 16:3 ↩
15. Deuteronomy 4:9 Gen 18:19; Deut 4:10; 6:7, 20-25; 11:19; 32:46; Ps 78:5, 6; Prov 22:6; Eph 6:4 ↩

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