Read Deuteronomy 4

World English Bible · 49 verses

1. ¹ Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them, that you may live and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ When you father children and children’s children, and you have been long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. ²⁸ There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
30. ³⁰ When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
31. ³¹ For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
32. ³² For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
33. ³³ Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
34. ³⁴ Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
35. ³⁵ It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
36. ³⁶ Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
37. ³⁷ Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
38. ³⁸ to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
39. ³⁹ Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
40. ⁴⁰ You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
41. ⁴¹ Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
42. ⁴² that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
43. ⁴³ Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
44. ⁴⁴ This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
45. ⁴⁵ These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
46. ⁴⁶ beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
47. ⁴⁷ They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
48. ⁴⁸ from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Siyon (also called Hermon),This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
49. ⁴⁹ and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org