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Deuteronomy 4 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:1 - And now, Israel, hear the ordinances and judgments, all that I teach you this day to do: that ye may live, and be multiplied, and that ye may go in and inherit the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2 - Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, and ye shall not take from it: keep the commandments of the Lord our God, all that I command you this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:3 - Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God did in the case of Beel-phegor; for every man that went after Beel-phegor, the Lord your God has utterly destroyed him from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:4 - But ye that kept close to the Lord your God are all alive to-day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:5 - Behold, I have shewn you ordinances and judgments as the Lord commanded me, that ye should do so in the land into which ye go to inherit it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6 - And ye shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:7 - For what manner of nation is so great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our God is in all things in whatsoever we may call upon him?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:8 - And what manner of nation is so great, which has righteous ordinances and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this day?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:9 - Take heed to thyself, and keep thy [fn]heart diligently: forget not any of the things, which thine eyes have seen, and let them not depart from thine heart all the days of thy life; and thou shalt teach thy sons and thy sons' sons,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:10 - even the things that happened in the day in which ye stood before the Lord our God in Choreb in the day of the assembly; for the Lord said to me, Gather the people to me, and let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days which they live upon the earth, and they shall teach their sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:11 - And ye drew nigh and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire up to heaven: there was darkness, blackness, and tempest.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:12 - And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire a voice of words, which ye heard: and ye saw no likeness, only ye heard a voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:13 - And he announced to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep, even the ten [fn]commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:14 - And the Lord commanded me at that time, to teach you ordinances and judgments, that ye should do them on the land, into which ye go to inherit it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:15 - And take good heed to your hearts, for ye saw no similitude in the day in which the Lord spoke to you in Choreb in the mountain out of the midst of the fire:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:16 - lest ye transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the likeness of male or female,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:17 - the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under heaven,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:18 - the likeness of any reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of those which are in the waters under the earth;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:19 - and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the [fn]heavenly bodies, thou shouldest go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20 - But God took you, and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21 - And the Lord God was angry with me for the things said by you, and sware that I should not go over this Jordan, and that I should not enter into the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:22 - For [fn]I am to die in this land, and shall not pass over this Jordan; but ye are to pass over, and shall inherit this good land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:23 - Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which he made with you, and ye transgress, and make to yourselves a graven image of any of the things concerning which the Lord thy God commanded thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:24 - For [fn] the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:25 - And when thou shalt have begotten sons, and shalt have sons' sons, and ye shall have dwelt a long time on the land, and shall have transgressed, and made a graven image of any thing, and shall have done wickedly before the Lord your God to provoke him;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:26 - I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that ye shall surely perish from off the land, into which ye go across Jordan to inherit it there; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly cut off.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:27 - And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and ye shall be left few in number among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.
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Deuteronomy 4:27 Commentaries
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:28 - And ye shall there serve other gods, the works of the hands of men, wood and stones, which [fn]cannot see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:29 - And there ye shall seek the Lord your God, and ye shall find him whenever ye shall seek him with all [fn]your heart, and with all [fn]your soul in [fn]your affliction.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:30 - And [fn]all these things shall come upon thee in the last days, and thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:31 - Because the Lord thy God is a God of pity: he will not forsake thee, nor destroy thee; he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which the Lord sware to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - Ask of the former days which were before thee, from the day when God created man upon the earth, and beginning at the one end of heaven to the other end of heaven, if there has happened any thing like to this great event, if such a thing has been heard:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:33 - if a nation have heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard and hast lived;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - if God has assayed to go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of another nation with trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which the Lord our God did in Egypt [fn]in thy sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:35 - So that thou shouldest know that the Lord thy God he is God, and there is none beside him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:36 - His voice was made audible from heaven to instruct thee, and he shewed thee upon the earth his great fire, and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37 - Because he loved thy fathers, he also chose you their seed after them, and he brought thee himself with his great strength out of Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - to destroy nations [fn]great and stronger than thou before thy face, to bring thee in, to give thee their land to inherit, as thou hast it this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:39 - And thou shalt know this day, and shalt consider in thine heart, that the Lord thy God he is God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath, and there is none else but he.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - And keep ye his commandments, and his ordinances, all that I command you this day; that it may be well with thee, and with thy sons after thee, that ye may be long-lived upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 - Then Moses separated three cities beyond Jordan on the east,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - that the slayer might flee thither, who should have slain his neighbour unintentionally, and should not have hated him [fn]in times past, and he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:43 - Bosor in the wilderness, in the plain country of Ruben, and Ramoth in Galaad belonging to [fn]Gad, and Gaulon in Basan belonging to Manasse.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:44 - This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:45 - These are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - on [fn]the other side of Jordan, in the valley near the house of Phogor, in the land of Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel smote when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:47 - And they inherited his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan eastward.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:48 - From Aroer, which is on the border of the brook Arnon, even to the mount of Seon, which is Aermon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49 - All [fn]Araba beyond Jordan eastward under Asedoth [fn]hewn in the rock.
BES Footnotes
Gr. soul.
Gr. words or sayings.
Gr. order of heaven.
Gr. I die.
Gr. shall not see, etc.
Gr. thy.
Gr. thy.
Gr. thy.
Gr. all these words shall find you. Hebraism.
Gr. before thee seeing.
Or, greater.
Gr. before yesterday and the third day. Hebraism.
Or, the Gaddite.
i. e. the east side.
Heb. the plain.
Or, the quarried rock. Heb. Ashdoth Pisgah.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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