Deuteronomy, Chapter 4:
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Verses from Deuteronomy, Chapter 4 of the book of Deuteronomy of the Bible.
Exhortation to obedience
- 1. Now, O Israel, listen to the decrees and laws that I teach you to obey, so that you may live and enter into possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.
- 2. Do not add anything to what I command you, nor take away anything. Fulfill the commandments of the Lord your God that I give you.
- 3. Their eyes have seen what the Lord did in Baal-peor. The Lord your God has destroyed from among you all who followed the Baal of Peor,
- 4. but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today.
- 5. See, I have taught you decrees and laws, as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you may observe them in the land you are entering and which you are going to take possession of.
- 6. Obey them and put them into practice. In this way you will show your wisdom and intelligence to the nations, who will hear all these decrees and say: “Surely this great nation is a wise and intelligent people!”
- 7. What are other nations but idols? But our God is in heaven and does whatever he pleases.
- 8. What are other nations but idols? But our God is in heaven and does whatever pleases him.
- 9. Just be careful! Pay close attention! Do not forget the things that your eyes have seen nor let them move away from your heart all the days of your life. Teach them to your children and your children's children.
- 10. Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when he said to you, “Gather the people before me to hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me as long as they live in land and teach them to your children.”
- 11. You came and stood at the foot of the mountain. The mountain was covered with fire that rose to the sky and there was darkness, clouds and dense darkness.
- 12. Then the Lord spoke to them out of the fire. You heard his voice, but you saw no form; they only heard one voice.
- 13. He declared to them his covenant, that he commanded them to fulfill the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.
- 14. At the same time, the Lord commanded me to teach you decrees and laws that you must observe in the land you are entering to inherit it.
Idolatry is prohibited
- 15. Therefore take care of your souls, for you did not see any form on the day that the Lord your God spoke to you in Horeb, in the midst of the fire.
- 16. Therefore, do not corrupt yourselves by making for yourselves an idol, whether in any form, like a man or a woman,
- 17. of any animal that lives on the earth, of any bird that flies in the sky,
- 18. of some reptile that crawls on the ground, or of some fish that lives in the waters beneath the earth.
- 19. When you lift your eyes to heaven and see the sun, the moon and the stars, all the heavenly hosts, do not be seduced into bowing down before them and worshiping them. The Lord their God delivered them to all people under heaven.
- 20. But the Lord took them and brought them out of the red-hot iron, out of the furnace of Egypt, to be his own people, as you are today.
- 21. The Lord was angry with me because of your words and swore that I would not cross the Jordan or enter the good land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
- 22. I will die in this land and will not cross the Jordan, but you will cross it and take possession of it.
- 23. Be careful not to forget the covenant that the Lord your God made with you; do not make for yourselves idols of any form which he has forbidden.
- 24. For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
- 25. When they have children and grandchildren and live a long time on earth, corrupting themselves, making idols in any way, committing evil before the Lord their God and provoking his anger,
- 26. I call heaven and earth to witness against you that you will certainly disappear from the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of. You will not live long in it, but you will be destroyed.
- 27. The Lord will scatter you among the nations, and there will be only a few of you left in the foreign lands where the Lord will take you.
- 28. There you will worship gods made by human hands, idols of wood and stone, which cannot see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
- 29. But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find him when you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- 30. When you are in trouble, and all these things have happened to you, in the last days you will return to the Lord your God and listen to him.
- 31. For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon them, nor destroy them, nor forget the covenant he swore with his ancestors.
The Lord is God
- 32. Ask now of ancient times, from the day that God created man on the earth, ask from one end of the heavens to the other: Was there anything so great as this, or was anything like it ever heard of?
- 33. Have any people heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you did, and survived?
- 34. Or has a god tried to take a people for himself from among other people, by trials, signs, wonders, war, a mighty hand, and a strong arm, by terrifying deeds, like all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt , before your own eyes?
- 35. All this was shown to him so that he might know that the Lord is God; none other than him.
- 36. He made you hear his voice from heaven, to discipline you; yet on earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from the midst of the fire.
- 37. He loved his ancestors and chose their descendants; Therefore, he personally brought them out of Egypt, with his great power,
- 38. to drive out nations greater and stronger than you before you, to bring you into the land and to give you the land as an inheritance, as it is today.
- 39. Recognize therefore today and consider in your heart that the Lord is God in the heavens above and on the earth below. There is no other.
- 40. Obey his decrees and his commandments, which I give you today, so that everything may go well with you and with your children, and so that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for ever.
Cities of refuge
- 41. Then Moses separated three cities east of the Jordan,
- 42. where could a murderer flee who had killed someone unintentionally, without having been an enemy of the victim in the past. He could flee to one of these cities and thus save his life.
- 43. These are the cities set apart for all the Israelites and for the foreigners living among them, so that anyone who has killed someone unintentionally may find refuge in them.
Introduction to the law
- 44. This is the law that Moses presented to the Israelites.
- 45. These are the warnings, decrees and laws that Moses announced to the Israelites after they left Egypt,
- 46. on the east side of the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. Moses and the Israelites defeated him when they left Egypt.
- 47. They conquered his territory and the territory of Og king of Bashan. Both Amorite kings, who reigned east of the Jordan,
- 48. from Aroer, on the banks of the Arnon Valley, to Mount Sihon, that is, Mount Hermon,
- 49. all the cities of the plain and all of Gilead and all of Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
