Deuteronomy, Chapter 04, King James Bible

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Deuteronomy chapter four. Now, therefore hearken o Israel under 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. Ye shall not add unto the word
which I command you, neither shall he diminish aught from it,

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that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God,
which I command you. Your eyes have seen what the
Lord did because of bail Pere. For all the men
that followed bail Pire, the Lord thy God hath destroyed
them from among you. But ye that did cleave unto
the Lord your God are alive, every one of you
this day. Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments,

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even as the Lord my God commanded me that he
should do so in the land whither ye go to
possess it. 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 the wise and understanding people. For what

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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. And what nation
is there so great that has statutes in judgments so
righteous as all this law which I set before you
this day. Only take heed to thyself and keep thy
soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes

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have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all
the days of thy life. But teach them thy sons,
and thy sons sons, 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

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to fear me all the days that they shall live
upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
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. And the Lord spake
unto you out of the midst of the fire. Ye
heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude.

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Only ye heard a voice, 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.
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. Take

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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,
lest ye corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image.
The similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
the likeness of any beast that is on the earth,

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the likeness of any winged fould that flies in the air,
the likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground, the
likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath
the earth. Unless 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, shouldst be
driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord,

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thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
But 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. Furthermore, the Lord is angry with me for
your sakes, and swear that I should not go over Jordan,

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and that I should not go in unto that good
land which the Lord thy God giveth THEE for an inheritance.
But I must die in this land. I must not
go over Jordan. But ye shall go over and possess
that good land. Take heed unto yourselves unless ye forget
the covenant of the Lord your God, which ye made
with you, and make you a graven image of the

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likeness of anything which the Lord thy God hath forbidden Thee,
for the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even
a jealous god. When 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 anything, and shall do evil in the sight

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of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger.
I call heaven and Earth to witness against you this day,
and ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land
where until ye go over Jordan to possess it, ye
shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly
be destroyed. And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations,
and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen,

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whether the Lord shall lead you, and there ye shall
serve gods the work of men's hands, wood and stone,
which neither see nor hear, nor eat nor smell. But
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, when thou art

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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.
For the Lord thy God is a merciful god. He
will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the
covenant of Thy Father, the which he swear unto them.
For ask now of the days that are passed which

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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 did ever people hear the voice of God
speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou
hast heard and live, or hath God assay to go

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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
unto THEE, it was shown that thou mightst know that
the Lord he is God. There is none else beside him.

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Out 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. And because He loved
thy fathers, therefore he chose their seat after them, and
brought THEE out in his sight with his mighty power,
out of Egypt, to drive out nations from before THEE

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greater and mighty than thou art, to bring thee inn,
to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it
is this day. Know 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 thou shalt keep. Therefore his statutes and his commandments,

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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 forever. Then Moses severed
three cities on this side Jordan, towards the sun rising,
that the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his

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neighbor unawares and hated him not in times past, and
that fleeing unto one of these cities, he might live,
namely Bezer in the wilderness in the plain country of
the Rubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites, and
Golan invasion of the Mennesites. And this is the law

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which Moses set before the children of Israel. These are
the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which Moses
spake under the children of Israel after they came forth
out of Egypt. On this side Jordan, in the valley
over against beth Pure in the land of Sihon, king
of the Amorites who dwelt at Hashbon, whom Moses and

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the children of Israel smote after they were come forth
out of Egypt, and they possessed his land in the
line of Og King of Bation, two kings of the Amorites,
which were on this side Jordan, towards the sun rising
from a rower, which is by the bank of the
river Arnon, even unto Mount Zin which is Hermann, and
all the plain on this side Jordan eastward even unto

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the sea of the plain under the springs of Pisga