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New American Standard Bible 2020

Deuteronomy 4

Israel Urged to Obey God’s Law

1“Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which 1I am teaching you to perform, so that 2you will live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 23You shall not add to the word which 4I am commanding you, nor take away from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I am commanding you. 35Your 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 clung 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 are to do these things in the land where you are entering to take possession of 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 13be careful for yourself and watch over 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. 10Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may have them hear My words 16so that they may learn to 17fear Me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may 18teach their children.’ 11You came forward and stood at the foot of the mountain, 19and the mountain was burning with fire to the heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud, and thick gloom. 12Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form--there was only a voice. 13So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, 20the Ten 21Commandments; and 22He wrote them on two tablets of stone. 14The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, so that you would perform them in the land where you are going over to take possession of it.

15“So 23be very careful 24yourselves, since you did not see any 25form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, 16so that you do not 26act corruptly and 27make a carved image for yourselves in the form of any figure, a representation of male or female, 17a representation of any animal that is on the earth, a representation of 28any winged bird that flies in the sky, 18a representation of anything that crawls on the ground, or a representation of any fish that is in the water below the earth. 19And be careful not to raise your eyes to heaven and look at the sun, the moon, and the stars, 29all the heavenly 30lights, 31and allow yourself to be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 20But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of 32the iron furnace, from Egypt, to 33be a people of His own possession, as today.

21“34Now the Lord was angry with me on your account, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance. 22For 35I am going to die in this land; I am not crossing the Jordan, but you are going to cross, and you will take possession of this 36good land. 23So be careful 37yourselves, 38that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and 39make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything against which the Lord your God has commanded you. 24For the Lord your God is a 40consuming fire, a 41jealous God.

25“When you father children and have 42grandchildren, and you grow old in the land, and you 43act corruptly, and 44make 45an idol in the form of anything, and 46do what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger, 26I 47call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today, that you will 48certainly perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to take possession of it. You will not 49live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27The Lord will 50scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you. 2851There you will serve gods, the work of human hands, 52wood and stone, 53which neither see nor hear, nor eat nor smell anything. 2954But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him 55with all your heart and all your soul. 30When you 56are in distress and all these things happen to you, 57in the latter days 58you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice. 31For the Lord your God is a 59compassionate God; 60He will not abandon you nor 61destroy you, nor 62forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.

32“Indeed, 63ask now about the earlier days that were 64before your time, since the 65day that God created 66mankind on the earth, and inquire 67from one end of the heavens to the other. 68Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it? 3369Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived? 3470Or has a god ventured to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation 71by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, 72by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, 73just as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord, He is God; 74there is no other besides Him. 3675Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice 76to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. 3777Because He loved your fathers, He chose 78their descendants after them. And He 7980personally brought you from Egypt by His great power, 38driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and 81to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is today. 39Therefore know today, and take it to your heart, that 82the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other. 4083So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am 84giving you today, so that 85it may go well for you and for your children after you, and 86that you may 87live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

4188Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the 89east, 42for 90one to flee there who unintentionally killed his neighbor, without having hatred for him in time past; and by fleeing to one of these cities he might live: 4391Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

44Now this is the Law which Moses set before the sons of Israel; 45these are the testimonies and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out of Egypt, 46across the Jordan, in the valley 92opposite Beth-peor, in the land of 93Sihon king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel 94defeated when they came out of Egypt. 47And they took possession of his land and the land of 95Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan to the 96east, 48from 97Aroer, which is on the edge of the 98Valley of Arnon, even as far as 99Mount Sion (that is, Hermon), 49with all the Arabah across the Jordan to the east, even as far as the sea of the Arabah, 100at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.

Notes

  1. 1. Deuteronomy 4:1 Deut 1:3 ↩
  2. 2. Deuteronomy 4:1 Lev 18:5; Deut 5:33; 8:1; 16:20; 30:16, 19; Ezek 20:11; Rom 10:5 ↩
  3. 3. Deuteronomy 4:2 Deut 12:32; Prov 30:6; Rev 22:18 ↩
  4. 4. Deuteronomy 4:2 Deut 4:5, 14, 40 ↩
  5. 5. Deuteronomy 4:3 Num 25:1-9 ↩
  6. 6. Deuteronomy 4:3 Lit him ↩
  7. 7. Deuteronomy 4:5 Lev 26:46; 27:34 ↩
  8. 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. 9. Deuteronomy 4:7 Deut 4:32-34; 2 Sam 7:23 ↩
  10. 10. Deuteronomy 4:7 Ps 34:17, 18; 145:18; 148:14; Is 55:6 ↩
  11. 11. Deuteronomy 4:7 Ps 34:18; 85:9 ↩
  12. 12. Deuteronomy 4:8 Ps 89:14; 97:2; 119:144, 160, 172 ↩
  13. 13. Deuteronomy 4:9 Deut 4:23; 6:12; 8:11, 14, 19; Prov 4:23; 23:19 ↩
  14. 14. Deuteronomy 4:9 Deut 6:2; 12:1; 16:3 ↩
  15. 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 ↩
  16. 16. Deuteronomy 4:10 Deut 14:23; 17:19; 31:12, 13 ↩
  17. 17. Deuteronomy 4:10 Or revere ↩
  18. 18. Deuteronomy 4:10 Deut 4:9 ↩
  19. 19. Deuteronomy 4:11 Ex 19:18; Heb 12:18, 19 ↩
  20. 20. Deuteronomy 4:13 Ex 34:28; Deut 10:4 ↩
  21. 21. Deuteronomy 4:13 Lit Words ↩
  22. 22. Deuteronomy 4:13 Ex 31:18; 34:1, 28 ↩
  23. 23. Deuteronomy 4:15 Josh 23:11 ↩
  24. 24. Deuteronomy 4:15 Or for your own lives ↩
  25. 25. Deuteronomy 4:15 Is 40:18 ↩
  26. 26. Deuteronomy 4:16 Deut 4:25; 9:12; 31:29 ↩
  27. 27. Deuteronomy 4:16 Ex 20:4; Lev 26:1; Deut 5:8, 9; 27:15; Rom 1:23 ↩
  28. 28. Deuteronomy 4:17 Rom 1:23 ↩
  29. 29. Deuteronomy 4:19 Gen 2:1; Deut 17:3; 2 Kin 17:16; 21:3 ↩
  30. 30. Deuteronomy 4:19 Lit host ↩
  31. 31. Deuteronomy 4:19 Deut 13:5, 10; Job 31:26-28 ↩
  32. 32. Deuteronomy 4:20 1 Kin 8:51; Jer 11:4 ↩
  33. 33. Deuteronomy 4:20 Ex 19:5; Deut 7:6; 14:2; 26:18; Titus 2:14; 1 Pet 2:9 ↩
  34. 34. Deuteronomy 4:21 Num 20:12; Deut 1:37 ↩
  35. 35. Deuteronomy 4:22 Num 27:13, 14 ↩
  36. 36. Deuteronomy 4:22 Deut 3:25 ↩
  37. 37. Deuteronomy 4:23 Or for yourselves ↩
  38. 38. Deuteronomy 4:23 Deut 4:9 ↩
  39. 39. Deuteronomy 4:23 Deut 4:16 ↩
  40. 40. Deuteronomy 4:24 Ex 24:17; Deut 9:3; Is 30:27; 33:14; Heb 12:29 ↩
  41. 41. Deuteronomy 4:24 Deut 5:9; 6:15 ↩
  42. 42. Deuteronomy 4:25 Lit children’s children ↩
  43. 43. Deuteronomy 4:25 Deut 4:16 ↩
  44. 44. Deuteronomy 4:25 Deut 4:23 ↩
  45. 45. Deuteronomy 4:25 Or a carved image ↩
  46. 46. Deuteronomy 4:25 2 Kin 17:17 ↩
  47. 47. Deuteronomy 4:26 Deut 30:19; 31:28; 32:1; Is 1:2; Mic 6:2 ↩
  48. 48. Deuteronomy 4:26 Deut 7:4; 8:19, 20 ↩
  49. 49. Deuteronomy 4:26 Lit prolong your days ↩
  50. 50. Deuteronomy 4:27 Lev 26:33; Deut 28:64; 29:28; Neh 1:8 ↩
  51. 51. Deuteronomy 4:28 Deut 28:36, 64; Jer 16:13 ↩
  52. 52. Deuteronomy 4:28 Deut 29:17 ↩
  53. 53. Deuteronomy 4:28 Ps 115:4-8; 135:15-18; Is 44:12-20 ↩
  54. 54. Deuteronomy 4:29 Deut 30:1-3, 10; 2 Chr 15:4; Is 55:6; Jer 29:13 ↩
  55. 55. Deuteronomy 4:29 Deut 6:5; 10:12 ↩
  56. 56. Deuteronomy 4:30 Ps 18:6; 59:16; 107:6, 13 ↩
  57. 57. Deuteronomy 4:30 Deut 31:29; Jer 23:20; Hos 3:5; Heb 1:2 ↩
  58. 58. Deuteronomy 4:30 Jer 4:1, 2 ↩
  59. 59. Deuteronomy 4:31 Ex 34:6; 2 Chr 30:9; Neh 9:31; Ps 103:8; 111:4; 116:5; Jon 4:2 ↩
  60. 60. Deuteronomy 4:31 Deut 31:6, 8; Josh 1:5; 1 Chr 28:20; Heb 13:5 ↩
  61. 61. Deuteronomy 4:31 Jer 30:11 ↩
  62. 62. Deuteronomy 4:31 Lev 26:45 ↩
  63. 63. Deuteronomy 4:32 Deut 32:7; Job 8:8 ↩
  64. 64. Deuteronomy 4:32 Lit before you ↩
  65. 65. Deuteronomy 4:32 Gen 1:27; Is 45:12 ↩
  66. 66. Deuteronomy 4:32 Or Adam ↩
  67. 67. Deuteronomy 4:32 Deut 28:64; Matt 24:31 ↩
  68. 68. Deuteronomy 4:32 Deut 4:7; 2 Sam 7:23 ↩
  69. 69. Deuteronomy 4:33 Ex 20:22; Deut 5:24, 26 ↩
  70. 70. Deuteronomy 4:34 Ex 14:30; Deut 33:29 ↩
  71. 71. Deuteronomy 4:34 Deut 7:19 ↩
  72. 72. Deuteronomy 4:34 Deut 5:15; 6:21; Ps 136:12 ↩
  73. 73. Deuteronomy 4:34 Lit according to all that ↩
  74. 74. Deuteronomy 4:35 Ex 8:10; 9:14; Deut 4:39; 32:12, 39; 1 Sam 2:2; Is 43:10-12; 44:6-8; 45:5-7; Mark 12:32 ↩
  75. 75. Deuteronomy 4:36 Ex 19:9, 19; 20:18, 22; Deut 4:33; Neh 9:13; Heb 12:25 ↩
  76. 76. Deuteronomy 4:36 Deut 8:5 ↩
  77. 77. Deuteronomy 4:37 Deut 7:7, 8; 10:15; 33:3 ↩
  78. 78. Deuteronomy 4:37 Lit his seed ↩
  79. 79. Deuteronomy 4:37 Lit with His presence ↩
  80. 80. Deuteronomy 4:37 Ex 33:14; Is 63:9 ↩
  81. 81. Deuteronomy 4:38 Num 32:4; 34:14, 15 ↩
  82. 82. Deuteronomy 4:39 Deut 4:35; Josh 2:11 ↩
  83. 83. Deuteronomy 4:40 Lev 22:31; Deut 4:2; Ps 105:45 ↩
  84. 84. Deuteronomy 4:40 Lit commanding ↩
  85. 85. Deuteronomy 4:40 Deut 4:1; 5:16, 29, 33; 6:3, 18; 12:25, 28; 22:7 ↩
  86. 86. Deuteronomy 4:40 Ex 23:26; Deut 32:47 ↩
  87. 87. Deuteronomy 4:40 Lit prolong your days ↩
  88. 88. Deuteronomy 4:41 Num 35:6; Deut 19:2-13; Josh 20:7-9 ↩
  89. 89. Deuteronomy 4:41 Lit sunrise ↩
  90. 90. Deuteronomy 4:42 Lit one who committed manslaughter ↩
  91. 91. Deuteronomy 4:43 Josh 20:8 ↩
  92. 92. Deuteronomy 4:46 Deut 3:29 ↩
  93. 93. Deuteronomy 4:46 Num 21:21-25 ↩
  94. 94. Deuteronomy 4:46 Lit struck ↩
  95. 95. Deuteronomy 4:47 Deut 1:4; 3:3, 4 ↩
  96. 96. Deuteronomy 4:47 Lit sunrise ↩
  97. 97. Deuteronomy 4:48 Deut 2:36; 3:12 ↩
  98. 98. Deuteronomy 4:48 Or wadi ↩
  99. 99. Deuteronomy 4:48 Deut 3:9; Ps 133:3 ↩
  100. 100. Deuteronomy 4:49 Lit under ↩

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