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• 4:1And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the ordinances which I am teaching you to do, in order that you may live and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, is giving you. Compare
• 4:2You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you. Compare
• 4:3Yours are the eyes that have seen that which Jehovah has done in Baal-peor; for all the men who went after Baal-peor, Jehovah your God has destroyed from your midst. Compare
• 4:4But you who joined yourselves to Jehovah your God are alive, all of you, today. Compare
• 4:5See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as Jehovah my God commanded me, so that you would do them within the land which you are going in to possess. Compare
• 4:6Keep and do them therefore; for this will be your wisdom and prudence in the sight of the peoples who hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and prudent people. Compare
• 4:7For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as Jehovah our God is whenever we call upon Him? Compare
• 4:8And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I am setting before you today? Compare
• 4:9But be careful and guard your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; rather, make them known to your children and to your grandchildren. Compare
• 4:10Especially do not forget the day when you stood before Jehovah your God at Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live upon the earth and may teach their children as much. Compare
• 4:11And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain; and the mountain was burning with fire up into the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and deep darkness there . Compare
• 4:12And Jehovah spoke to you from the midst of the fire. The sound of words could you hear, but no form could you see; there was only a voice. Compare
• 4:13And He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to do, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them upon two tablets of stone. Compare
• 4:14And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to do in the land which you are about to cross over into to possess. Compare
• 4:15So take careful heed to your souls, for you did not see any form at all on the day when Jehovah spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, Compare
• 4:16So that you do not spoil yourselves and make for yourselves an idol, a form of any image, a figure of male or female, Compare
• 4:17A figure of any animal which is on the earth, a figure of any winged bird which flies in the sky, Compare
• 4:18A figure of anything that crawls on the ground, a figure of any fish that is in the water under the earth; Compare
• 4:19And take heed that, when you lift up your eyes to the sky and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you are not drawn away in worship to them and that you do not serve them, which Jehovah your God has assigned to all the peoples under all heaven. Compare
• 4:20But Jehovah has taken you and brought you forth from the iron furnace, from Egypt, that you would be to Him a people for His inheritance, as you are this day. Compare
• 4:21But Jehovah was angry with me on your account and swore that I would not cross over the Jordan and that I would not enter the good land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance. Compare
• 4:22For I am to die in this land; I am not to cross over the Jordan. But you are crossing over and you will possess this good land. Compare
• 4:23Take heed to yourselves that you do not forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He has made with you, and make for yourselves an idol, the form of anything, which Jehovah your God has forbidden you to make . Compare
• 4:24For Jehovah your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. Compare
• 4:25When you have brought forth children and grandchildren and have languished in the land, and you have spoiled yourselves by making an idol, the form of anything, and have done that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God so as to anger Him; Compare
• 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that surely you will soon perish from off the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess; you will not extend your days upon it, but you will be utterly destroyed. Compare
• 4:27And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations to which Jehovah will drive you. Compare
• 4:28And there you will serve gods which are the work of human hands, mere wood and stone, which do not see nor hear nor eat nor smell. Compare
• 4:29And from there you will seek Jehovah your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and with all your soul. Compare
• 4:30When you are in distress and all these things happen to you, when you are in the last days, you will return to Jehovah your God and listen to His voice. Compare
• 4:31For Jehovah your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor let you perish nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them. Compare
• 4:32For ask now regarding the former days, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, Has anything as great as this ever happened, or has anything like this ever been heard of? Compare
• 4:33Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and lived? Compare
• 4:34Has God ever ventured to go and take to Himself a nation from the midst of another nation by trials, by signs and wonders, and by war and a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, like all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? Compare
• 4:35You were shown these things that you might know that it is Jehovah who is God; there is no other besides Him. Compare
• 4:36From heaven He let you hear His voice that He might discipline you, and upon the earth He showed you His great fire, and His words you heard from the midst of the fire. Compare
• 4:37And because He loved your fathers, He chose their seed after them and brought you out by His presence, by His great power, from Egypt, Compare
• 4:38Driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as it is today. Compare
• 4:39Know therefore today and bring it to heart that Jehovah is God in heaven above and upon the earth below; there is no other. Compare
• 4:40Therefore keep His statutes and His commandments, which I am commanding you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, so that you may extend your days upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you forever. Compare
• 4:41Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, Compare
• 4:42That the manslayer might flee there, who slays his neighbor without intent and did not hate him previously, and in fleeing to one of these cities he might live: Compare
• 4:43Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the Plateau, belonging to the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites. Compare
• 4:44And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel; Compare
• 4:45These are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they had gone out from Egypt, Compare
• 4:46Across the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel slew when they had gone out from Egypt. Compare
• 4:47And they possessed his land and the land of Og the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, Compare
• 4:48From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even unto Mount Sirion, that is, Hermon, Compare
• 4:49And all the Arabah across the Jordan on the east even to the sea of the Arabah at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah. Compare

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