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Keep the Commandments of Yahweh

¹ "So now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which ^(C1)I am teaching you to do, so that ^(C2)you may live and go in and take possession of the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, is giving you.² "^(C1)You shall not add to the word which ^(C2)I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I am commanding you.³ "^(C1)Your eyes have seen what Yahweh has done in the case of Baal-peor, for all the men who walked after Baal-peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed ^(F1)them from among you.⁴ "But you who clung to Yahweh your God are alive today, every one of you.

⁵ "See, I have taught you statutes and judgments ^(C1)just as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it.⁶ "You shall keep and do them, ^(C1)for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'⁷ "For ^(C1)what great nation is there that has a god ^(C2)so near to it as is Yahweh our God ^(C3)whenever we call on Him?⁸ "Or what great nation is there that has ^(C1)statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?

⁹ "Only ^(C1)keep yourself and keep your soul very carefully, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen and lest they depart from your heart ^(C2)all the days of your life. But ^(C3)make them known to your sons and to your grandsons.¹⁰ "Remember the day you stood before Yahweh your God at Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, 'Assemble the people to Me, that I may cause them to hear My words ^(C1)so they may learn to ^(F1)fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may ^(C2)teach their children.'¹¹ "And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, ^(C1)and the mountain burned with fire to the very heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud, and dense gloom.¹² "Then Yahweh spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form—only a voice.¹³ "So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to do, that is, ^(C1)the Ten ^(F1)Commandments; and ^(C2)He wrote them on two tablets of stone.¹⁴ "And Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it.

¹⁵ "So ^(C1)keep your souls very carefully, since you did not see any ^(C2)form on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,¹⁶ lest you ^(C1)act corruptly and ^(C2)make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,¹⁷ the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of ^(C1)any winged bird that flies in the sky,¹⁸ the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth,¹⁹ and lest you lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, ^(C1)all the host of heaven, ^(C2)and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which Yahweh your God has apportioned for all the peoples under the whole heaven.²⁰ "But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out of ^(C1)the iron furnace, from Egypt, to ^(C2)be a people for His own inheritance, as today.

²¹ "^(C1)Now Yahweh was angry with me on your account and swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance.²² "For ^(C1)I will die in this land, I shall not cross the Jordan, but you shall cross and take possession of this ^(C2)good land.²³ "So keep yourselves, ^(C1)lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God which He cut with you and ^(C2)make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which Yahweh your God has commanded you.²⁴ "For Yahweh your God is a ^(C1)consuming fire, a ^(C2)jealous God.

²⁵ "When you ^(F1)become the father of children and children's children and remain long in the land and ^(C1)act corruptly and ^(C2)make ^(F2)a graven image in the form of anything and ^(C3)do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God so as to provoke Him to anger,²⁶ I ^(C1)call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will ^(C2)surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not prolong your days on it, but will be utterly destroyed.²⁷ "And Yahweh will ^(C1)scatter you among the peoples, and you will remain few in number among the nations where Yahweh drives you.²⁸ "^(C1)And there you will serve gods, the work of man's hands, ^(C2)wood and stone, ^(C3)which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.²⁹ "^(C1)But from there you will seek Yahweh your God, and you will find Him, for you will search for Him ^(C2)with all your heart and all your soul.³⁰ "When you ^(C1)are in distress and all these things have come upon you, ^(C2)in the last days ^(C3)you will return to Yahweh your God and listen to His voice.³¹ "For Yahweh your God is a ^(C1)compassionate God; ^(C2)He will not fail you nor ^(C3)destroy you nor ^(C4)forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.

³² "Indeed, ^(C1)ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the ^(C2)day that God created ^(F1)man on the earth, and inquire ^(C3)from one end of the heavens to the other. ^(C4)Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?³³ "^(C1)Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and lived?³⁴ "^(C1)Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation ^(C2)with trials, with signs and wonders and with war and ^(C3)with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terrors, ^(F1)as Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?³⁵ "To you it was shown that you might know that Yahweh, He is God; ^(C1)there is no other besides Him.³⁶ "^(C1)Out of the heavens He caused you to hear His voice ^(C2)to discipline you; and on earth He caused you to see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire.³⁷ "^(F1)(C1)Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them. And He ^(F2)(C2)personally brought you from Egypt by His great power,³⁸ dispossessing before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and ^(C1)to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.³⁹ "Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that ^(C1)Yahweh, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.⁴⁰ "^(C1)So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am commanding you today, that ^(C2)it may go well with you and with your children after you, and ^(C3)that you may prolong your days on the land which Yahweh your God is giving you for all the days."

^41 (C1)Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east toward the sunrise,⁴² that a manslayer might flee there, who slew his neighbor ^(F1)without premeditation, ^(F2)not hating him previously; so he shall flee to one of these cities that he might live:^43 (C1)Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

⁴⁴ Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel;⁴⁵ these are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel when they came out from Egypt,⁴⁶ across the Jordan, in the valley ^(C1)opposite Beth-peor, in the land of ^(C2)Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel struck down when they came out from Egypt.⁴⁷ And they took possession of his land and the land of ^(C1)Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan to the east toward the sunrise,⁴⁸ from ^(C1)Aroer, which is on the edge of the ^(F1)valley of Arnon, even as far as ^(C2)Mount Sion (that is, Hermon),⁴⁹ with all the Arabah across the Jordan to the east, even as far as the sea of the Arabah, ^(F1)at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.