[1] "And now, O Israel, give heed to the statutes and the ordinances which
I teach you, and do them; that you may live, and go in and take possession
of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you. [2] You
shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it; that you
may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. [3]
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Ba'al-pe'or; for the LORD your God
destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Ba'al of Pe'or; [4]
but you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive this day. [5]
Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as the LORD my God
commanded me, that you should do them in the land which you are entering to
take possession of it. [6] Keep them and do them; for that will be your
wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they
hear all these statutes, will say, `Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.' [7] For what great nation is there that has a god so
near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? [8] And
what great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous
as all this law which I set before you this day? [9] "Only take heed, 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; make
them known to your children and your children's children-- [10] how on the
day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me,
`Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they
may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that
they may teach their children so.' [11] And you came near and stood at the
foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of
heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. [12] Then the LORD spoke to
you out of the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but saw no
form; there was only a voice. [13] And he declared to you his covenant,
which he commanded you to perform, that is, the 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 ordinances, that you might do them in the
land which you are going over to possess. [15] "Therefore take good heed to
yourselves. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at
Horeb out of the midst of the fire, [16] beware lest you act corruptly by
making a graven image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the
likeness of male or female, [17] the likeness of any beast that is on the
earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, [18] the
likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish
that is in the water under the earth. [19] And beware lest you lift up your
eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all
the host of heaven, you be drawn away and worship them and serve them,
things which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the
whole heaven. [20] But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of
the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own possession, as at
this day. [21] Furthermore the LORD was angry with me on your account, and
he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter
the good land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance. [22]
For I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall
go over and take possession of that good land. [23] Take heed to
yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he
made with you, and make a graven image in the form of anything which the
LORD your God has forbidden you. [24] For the LORD your God is a devouring
fire, a jealous God. [25] "When you beget children and children's children,
and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a graven
image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of
the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger, [26] I call heaven and
earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish
from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not
live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed. [27] And the LORD will
scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the
nations where the LORD will drive you. [28] And there you will serve gods
of wood and stone, the work of men's hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor
eat, nor smell. [29] But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and
you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all
your soul. [30] When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon
you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his
voice, [31] for the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you
or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers which he swore to
them. [32] "For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you,
since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of
heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened
or was ever heard of. [33] Did any people ever hear the voice of a god
speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?
[34] Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from
the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war,
by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according
to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? [35]
To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no
other besides him. [36] Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he
might discipline you; and on earth he let you see his great fire, and you
heard his words out of the midst of the fire. [37] And because he loved
your fathers and chose their descendants after them, and brought you out of
Egypt with his own presence, by his great power, [38] driving out before
you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give
you their land for an inheritance, as at this day; [39] know therefore this
day, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on
the earth beneath; there is no other. [40] Therefore you shall keep his
statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go
well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong
your days in the land which the LORD your God gives you for ever." [41]
Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan, [42] that
the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally,
without being at enmity with him in time past, and that by fleeing to one
of these cities he might save his life: [43] Bezer in the wilderness on the
tableland for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and
Golan in Bashan for the Manas'sites. [44] This is the law which Moses set
before the children of Israel; [45] these are the testimonies, the
statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel
when they came out of Egypt, [46] beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite
Beth-pe'or, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at
Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated when they came out
of Egypt. [47] And they took possession of his land and the land of Og the
king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond
the Jordan; [48] from Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the
Arnon, as far as Mount Si'rion (that is, Hermon), [49] together with all
the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah,
under the slopes of Pisgah.

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