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 Yehovah Elohim
of your fathers gives you.
4:2 Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, and ye shall not take
from it: keep the commandments of Yehovah our Elohim, all that I command you
this day.
4:3 Your eyes have seen all that Yehovah our Elohim did in [the case of]
Beel-phegor; for every man that went after Beel-phegor, Yehovah your Elohim
has utterly destroyed him from among you.
4:4 But ye that kept close to Yehovah your Elohim are all alive to-day.
4:5 Behold, I have shewn you ordinances and judgments as Yehovah commanded
me, that ye should do so in the land into which ye go to inherit it.
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.
4:7 For what manner of nation [is so] great, which has Elohim so near to them
as Yehovah our Elohim [is] in all things in whatsoever we may call upon him?
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?
4:9 Take heed to thyself, and keep thy 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,
4:10 [even the things that happened in] the day in which ye stood before the
Lord our Elohim in Choreb in the day of the assembly; for Yehovah 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.
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.
4:12 And Yehovah 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.
4:13 And he announced to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep,
even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
4:14 And Yehovah 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.
4:15 And take good heed to your hearts, for ye saw no similitude in the day
in which Yehovah spoke to you in Choreb in the mountain out of the midst of
the fire:
4:16 lest ye transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of
figure, the likeness of male or female,
4:17 the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness
of any winged bird which flies under heaven,
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;
4:19 and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the
moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, thou shouldest go astray
and worship them, and serve them, which Yehovah thy Elohim has distributed to
all the nations under heaven.
4:20 But Elohim 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.
:21 And Yehovah Elohim 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 Yehovah thy Elohim giveth thee for an inheritance.
4:22 For 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.
4:23 Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Yehovah our
Elohim, which he made with you, and ye transgress, and make to yourselves a
graven image of any of the things concerning which Yehovah thy Elohim
commanded thee.
4:24 For Yehovah thy Elohim is a consuming fire, a jealous Elohim.
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
Yehovah your Elohim to provoke him;
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.
4:27 And Yehovah shall scatter you among all nations, and ye shall be left
few in number among all the nations, among which Yehovah shall bring you.
4:28 And ye shall there serve other gods, the works of the hands of men,
wood and stones, which cannot see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell.
4:29 And there ye shall seek Yehovah your Elohim, and ye shall find him
whenever ye shall seek him with all your heart, and with all your soul in
your affliction.
4:30 And all these things shall come upon thee in the last days, and thou
shalt turn to Yehovah thy Elohim, and shalt hearken to his voice.
4:31 Because Yehovah thy Elohim [is] a Elohim 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.
4:32 Ask of the former days which were before thee, from the day when Elohim
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:
4:33 if a nation have heard the voice of the living Elohim speaking out of the
midst of the fire, as thou hast heard and hast lived;
4:34 if Elohim 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 Yehovah our Elohim did in Egypt in thy
sight.
4:35 So that thou shouldest know that Yehovah thy Elohim he is Elohim, and there
is none beside him.
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.
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,
4:38 to destroy nations 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.
4:39 An thou shalt know this day, and shalt consider in thine heart, that
Yehovah thy Elohim he [is] Elohim in heaven above, and on the earth beneath, and
there is none else but he.
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 Yehovah thy Elohim giveth thee
for ever.
4:41 Then Moses separated three cities beyond Jordan on the east,
4:42 that the slayer might flee thither, who should have slain his neighbour
unintentionally, and should not have hated him in times past, and he shall
flee to one of these cities and live:
4:43 Bosor in the wilderness, in the plain country of Ruben, and Ramoth in
Galaad [belonging to] Gad, and Gaulon in Basan [belonging to] Manasse.
4:44 This [is] the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
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:
4:46 on 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.
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.
4:48 From Aroer, which is on the border of the brook Arnon, even to the
mount of Seon, which is Aermon.
4:49 All Araba beyond Jordan eastward under Asedoth hewn in the rock. |
4:1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto
the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that
ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Yehovah Elohim of your
fathers giveth you.
4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye
diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Yehovah your
Elohim which I command you.
4:3 Your eyes have seen what Yehovah did because of Baalpeor: for all the
men that followed Baalpeor, Yehovah thy Elohim hath destroyed them from among
you.
4:4 But ye that did cleave unto Yehovah your Elohim are alive every one of you
this day.
4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Yehovah my
Elohim commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess
it.
4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your
understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these
statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding
people.
4:7 For what nation is there so great, who hath Elohim so nigh unto them, as
Yehovah our Elohim is in all things that we call upon him for?
4:8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so
righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou
forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy
heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
4:10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before Yehovah thy Elohim in Horeb,
when Yehovah said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make
them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they
shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
4:11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned
with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick
darkness.
4:12 And Yehovah spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the
voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to
perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
4:14 And Yehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and
judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess
it.
4:15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of
similitude on the day that Yehovah spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst
of the fire:
4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude
of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
4:17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any
winged fowl that flieth in the air,
4:18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of
any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the
sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be
driven to worship them, and serve them, which Yehovah thy Elohim hath divided
unto all nations under the whole heaven.
4:20 But Yehovah hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron
furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye
are this day.
4:21 Furthermore Yehovah was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I
should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land,
which Yehovah thy Elohim giveth thee for an inheritance:
4:22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go
over, and possess that good land.
4:23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Yehovah your
Elohim, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of
any thing, which Yehovah thy Elohim hath forbidden thee.
4:24 For Yehovah thy Elohim is a consuming fire, even a jealous Elohim.
4:25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall
have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a
graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight
of Yehovah thy Elohim, to provoke him to anger:
4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall
soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess
it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
4:27 And Yehovah shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left
few in number among the heathen, whither Yehovah shall lead you.
4:28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone,
which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
4:29 But if from thence thou shalt seek Yehovah thy Elohim, thou shalt find
him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
4:30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee,
even in the latter days, if thou turn to Yehovah thy Elohim, and shalt be
obedient unto his voice;
4:31 (For Yehovah thy Elohim is a merciful Elohim;) he will not forsake thee,
neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware
unto them.
4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since
the day that Elohim created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of
heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great
thing is, or hath been heard like it?
4:33 Did ever people hear the voice of Elohim speaking out of the midst of the
fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
4:34 Or hath Elohim assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of
another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by
a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according
to all that Yehovah your Elohim did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
4:35 Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that Yehovah he is
Elohim; there is none else beside him.
4:36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct
thee: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his
words out of the midst of the fire.
4:37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after
them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
4:38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou
art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is
this day.
4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that Yehovah
he is Elohim in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
4:40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I
command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children
after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the
Yehovah thy Elohim giveth thee, for ever.
4:41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the
sunrising;
4:42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbor
unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of
these cities he might live:
4:43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the
Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of
the Manassites.
4:44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
4:45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which
Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt.
4:46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land
of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the
children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
4:47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two
kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
4:48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount
Zion, which is Hermon,
4:49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of
the plain, under the springs of Pisgah. |