1Now
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.
2Ye
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.
3Your
eyes have
seen what
the LORD did
because of
Baalpeor:
for all the
men that
followed
Baalpeor,
the LORD thy
God hath
destroyed
them from
among you.
4But
ye that did
cleave unto
the LORD
your God are alive
every one of
you this
day.
5Behold,
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.
6Keep
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.
7For
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?
8And
what nation is
there so great,
that hath
statutes and
judgments so righteous
as all this
law, which I
set before
you this
day?
9Only
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;
10Specially 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.
11And
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.
12And
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.
13And
he declared
unto you his
covenant,
which he
commanded
you to
perform, even ten
commandments;
and he wrote
them upon
two tables
of stone.
14And
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.
15Take
ye therefore
good heed
unto
yourselves;
for ye saw
no manner of
similitude
on the day that the
LORD spake
unto you in
Horeb out of
the midst of
the fire:
16Lest
ye corrupt yourselves,
and make you
a graven
image, the
similitude
of any
figure, the
likeness of
male or
female,
17The
likeness of
any beast
that is on
the earth,
the likeness
of any
winged fowl
that flieth
in the air,
18The
likeness of
any thing
that
creepeth on
the ground,
the likeness
of any fish
that is in
the waters
beneath the
earth:
19And
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 the
LORD thy God
hath divided
unto all
nations
under the
whole
heaven.
20But
the LORD
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.
21Furthermore
the LORD 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
the LORD thy
God giveth
thee for an
inheritance:
22But
I must die
in this
land, I must
not go over
Jordan: but
ye shall go
over, and
possess that
good land.
23Take
heed unto
yourselves,
lest ye
forget the
covenant of
the LORD
your God,
which he
made with
you, and
make you a
graven
image, or the
likeness of
any thing,
which the
LORD thy God
hath
forbidden
thee.
24For
the LORD thy
God is a
consuming
fire, even a
jealous God.
25When
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 the
LORD thy
God, to
provoke him
to anger:
26I
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.
27And
the LORD
shall
scatter you
among the
nations, and
ye shall be
left few in
number among
the heathen,
whither the
LORD shall
lead you.
28And
there ye
shall serve
gods, the
work of
men's hands,
wood and
stone, which
neither see,
nor hear,
nor eat, nor
smell.
29But
if from
thence thou
shalt seek
the LORD thy
God, thou
shalt find him,
if thou seek
him with all
thy heart
and with all
thy soul.
30When
thou art in
tribulation,
and all
these things
are come
upon thee, even in
the latter
days, if
thou turn to
the LORD thy
God, and
shalt be
obedient
unto his
voice;
31(For
the LORD thy
God is a
merciful
God;) he
will not
forsake
thee,
neither
destroy
thee, nor
forget the
covenant of
thy fathers
which he
sware unto
them.
32For
ask now of
the days
that are
past, which
were before
thee, since
the day that
God 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?
33Did ever people
hear the
voice of God
speaking out
of the midst
of the fire,
as thou hast
heard, and
live?
34Or
hath God
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 the
LORD your
God did for
you in Egypt
before your
eyes?
35Unto
thee it was
shewed, that
thou
mightest
know that
the LORD he is God; there
is none
else beside
him.
36Out
of heaven he
made thee to
hear his
voice, that
he might
instruct
thee: and
upon earth
he shewed
thee his
great fire;
and thou
heardest his
words out of
the midst of
the fire.
37And
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;
38To
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.
39Know
therefore
this day,
and
consider it in
thine heart,
that the
LORD he is God
in heaven
above, and
upon the
earth
beneath: there
is none
else.
40Thou
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 LORD thy
God giveth
thee, for
ever.
41Then
Moses
severed
three cities
on this side
Jordan
toward the
sunrising;
42That
the slayer
might flee
thither,
which should
kill his
neighbour
unawares,
and hated
him not in
times past;
and that
fleeing unto
one of these
cities he
might live:
43Namely,
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.
44And
this is the
law which
Moses set
before the
children of
Israel:
45These are the
testimonies,
and the
statutes,
and the
judgments,
which Moses
spake unto
the children
of Israel,
after they
came forth
out of
Egypt,
46On
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:
47And
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;
48From
Aroer,
which is by
the bank of
the river
Arnon, even
unto mount
Sion, which is Hermon,
49And
all the
plain on
this side
Jordan
eastward,
even unto
the sea of
the plain,
under the
springs of
Pisgah.