DEUTERONOMY 4



Moses Commands Obedience



1 (Dt 8:1; Eze 20:11) Now therefore, listen, O Israel, to the statutes

and to the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that you may live;

and go in and possess the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers,

is giving you.

2 (Dt 12:32; Jos 1:7) You shall not add to the word which I am commanding

you, nor shall you take anything from it, so that you may keep

the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

3 (Nu 25:1-9) Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal Peor; for the

Lord your God has destroyed from among you all the men

who followed Baal of Peor.

4 But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive to this day,

every one of you.

5 See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the Lord

my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land

where you are entering to possess it.

6 (Job 28:28; Pr 1:7) Therefore, keep 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."

7 (2Sa 7:23; Ps 46:1) For what nation is there so great, who has a god

so near to it as the Lord our God is in all things whenever we call on Him?

8 And what nation is there so great that has statutes and judgments

so righteous as all this law, which I am setting before you today?

9 (Ge 18:19; Dt 4:23) Only give heed to yourself 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;

but teach them to your sons, and your grandsons.

10 (Ex 19:9; 19:16) Especially concerning the day you stood

before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me,

"Gather the people together to Me, so that I will let them hear

My words so that they may learn to fear Me all the days

they shall live on the earth, and so that they may teach their children."

11 (Dt 5:23) Then you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain,

and the mountain burned with fire up to the midst of heaven,

with darkness, a cloud, a thick cloud.

12 (Ex 20:22; Dt 5:4) Then the Lord spoke to you out of the midst

of the fire. You heard the sound of the words but saw no form

-only a voice was heard.

13 (Ex 34:28; 24:12; 31:18) He declared to you His covenant,

which He commanded you to perform, even the Ten Commandments,

and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

14 The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments,

so that you might do them in the land which you are crossing over to possess.



[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 the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

[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 the LORD your

God which I command you.

[3] Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the

men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among

you.

[4] But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you

this day.

[5] Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my

God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess

it.

[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.

[7] For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as

the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

[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?

[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;

[10] Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb,

when the LORD 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.

[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.

[12] And the LORD 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.

[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.

[14] And the LORD 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.



Idolatry Forbidden



15 (Jos 23:11; Isa 40:18) Give good care to yourselves, for you saw no form

on the day that the Lord spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire,

16 (Ex 20:4-5; 32:7) lest you corrupt yourselves and make a graven image

for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

17 (Ro 1:23) the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness

of any winged fowl that flies in the air,

18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness

of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth.

19 (Dt 17:3; 2Ki 17:16) And beware, lest you lift up your eyes to heaven,

and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host

of heaven, you are led astray and worship them, and serve them,

that which the Lord your God has allotted to all nations

under the whole heaven.

20 (1Ki 8:51; Jer 11:4) But the Lord has taken you

and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt,

to be to Him a people of inheritance, as you are today.

21 (Dt 1:37; Nu 20:12) Furthermore, the Lord was angry with me because

of you and swore that I should not cross over the Jordan, and that I would

not go into that good land which the Lord your God is giving you

for an inheritance.

22 (Dt 3:25; 3:27) So I must die in this land. I shall not cross over

the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.

23 (Dt 4:9) Watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the covenant

of the Lord your God, which He made with you, and make yourself

a graven image or the likeness of anything as the Lord your God has

forbidden you.

24 (Ex 24:17; Dt 9:3) For the Lord your God is a consuming fire.

He is a jealous God.

25 (Dt 4:16) When you produce children and grandchildren

and you have remained a long time in the land, and you corrupt

yourselves and make a graven image, or the likeness of anything,

and do evil in the sight of the Lord your God, to provoke Him to anger,

26 (Isa 1:2; Mic 6:2) I call heaven and earth to witness against you today,

that you will surely and suddenly perish from off the land that you

are going across the Jordan to possess.

You will not prolong your days on it, but shall be completely destroyed.

27 (Lev 26:33) The Lord shall scatter you among the peoples,

and you shall be left few in number among the nations

where the Lord shall lead you.

28 (Dt 28:36; 28:64) There you will serve gods, the work of men's hands,

wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

29 (2Ch 15:4; Dt 30:1-3) But if from there you will seek the Lord your God,

you will find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart

and with all your soul.

30 (Dt 31:29; Jer 23:20) When you are in distress and all these things come

upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the Lord your God

and shall be obedient to His voice

31 (2Ch 30:9; Ne 9:31) (for the Lord your God is a merciful God),

He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant

of your fathers which He swore to them.

32 (Job 8:8; Mt 24:31) Indeed, ask about the days that are past,

which were before you, since the day that God created man

Or Adam. on the earth, and ask from one end of heavens to the other,

whether there has ever been any such thing as this great thing,

or has anything like it ever been heard?

33 (Ex 24:11; 33:20) Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking

out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and lived?

34 (Dt 26:8; Ex 6:6) Or has God ever tried to take for Himself a nation

from the midst of another nation, by trials, 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 the Lord your God did for

you in Egypt before your eyes?

35 (1Sa 2:2; Isa 45:5) To you it was shown so that you might know

that the Lord, He is God. There is no one else besides Him.

36 (Ex 19:9; 19:19) Out of heaven He let you hear His voice

so that He might instruct you, and on earth He showed you

His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.

37 (Dt 10:15; Ex 13:3) Because He loved your fathers, therefore

He chose their descendants after them and personally brought

you out of Egypt with His mighty power

38 (Dt 7:1; Ex 23:27-28) to drive out nations from before you greater

and mightier than you are, to bring you in, to give you their land

for an inheritance, as it is today.

39 (Jos 2:11; Dt 4:35) Know therefore today, and consider it in your heart,

that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below.

There is no other.

40 (Lev 22:31; Dt 5:16) Therefore, you shall keep His statutes

and His commandments which I command you this day,

so that it may go well with you and with your children after you,

and so that you may prolong your days in the land,

which the Lord your God gives you, forever.