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Deuteronomy 4

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"And now, O Israel, give heed to the statutes and the ordinances which I teach you, and do them; that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.

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You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it; that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Ba'al-pe'or; for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Ba'al of Pe'or;

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but you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive this day.

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Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.

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Keep them and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'

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For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?

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And what great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day?

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"Only take heed, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children's children--

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how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, 'Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children so.'

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And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.

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Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.

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And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

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And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land which you are going over to possess.

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"Therefore take good heed to yourselves. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

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beware lest you act corruptly by making a graven image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,

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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.

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And beware lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you 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.

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But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own possession, as at this day.

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Furthermore the LORD was angry with me on your account, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

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For I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over and take possession of that good land.

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Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a graven image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

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For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

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"When you beget children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a graven image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger,

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I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

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And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

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And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of men's hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice,

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for the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers which he swore to them.

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"For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.

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Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?

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Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

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To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.

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Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you; and on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

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And because he loved your fathers and chose their descendants after them, and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,

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driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day;

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know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.

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Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God gives you for ever."

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Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,

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that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might save his life:

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Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manas'sites.

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This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;

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these are the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

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beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-pe'or, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt.

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And they took possession of his land and the land of Og the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan;

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from Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount Si'rion (that is, Hermon),

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together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

Deuteronomy 5

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And Moses summoned all Israel, and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your hearing this day, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.

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The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

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Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive this day.

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The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,

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while I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:

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"'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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"'You shall have no other gods before me.

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"'You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

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you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

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but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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"'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

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"'Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

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Six days you shall labor, and do all your work;

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but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your manservant, or your maidservant, or your ox, or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.

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You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.

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"'Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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"'You shall not kill.

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"'Neither shall you commit adultery.

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"'Neither shall you steal.

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"'Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

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"'Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.'

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"These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them to me.

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And when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

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and you said, 'Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire; we have this day seen God speak with man and man still live.

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Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we shall die.

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For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire, as we have, and has still lived?

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Go near, and hear all that the LORD our God will say; and speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you; and we will hear and do it.'

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"And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me; and the LORD said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you; they have rightly said all that they have spoken.

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Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their children for ever!

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Go and say to them, "Return to your tents."

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But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.'

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You shall be careful to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

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You shall walk in all the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land which you shall possess.

Deuteronomy 6

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"Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances which the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it;

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that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

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Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them; that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

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"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD;

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and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

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And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart;

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and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

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And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

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And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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"And when the LORD your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, with great and goodly cities, which you did not build,

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and houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which you did not hew, and vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant, and when you eat and are full,

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then take heed lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him, and swear by his name.

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You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;

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for the LORD your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

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"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.

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You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

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And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers

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by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised.

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"When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which the LORD our God has commanded you?'

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then you shall say to your son, 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

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and the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes;

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and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land which he swore to give to our fathers.

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And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.

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And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.'

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