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Deuteronomy 4 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:1 - "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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:3 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:4 - but you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:5 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:7 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:8 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:9 - "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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:10 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:11 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:12 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:13 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:14 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:15 - "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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:16 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:17 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:18 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:19 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:21 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:22 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:23 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:24 - For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:25 - "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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:26 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:27 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:28 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:29 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:30 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:31 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - "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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:33 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:35 - To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:36 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:39 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 - Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:43 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:44 - This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:45 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:47

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:47 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:48 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49 - 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.
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