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`And now, Israel , hearken unto the statutes , and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving to you.
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Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.
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`Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor , for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor , Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;
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and ye who are cleaving to Jehovah your God , [are] alive, all of you, to-day .
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`See , I have taught you statutes and judgments , as Jehovah my God hath commanded me -- to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it;
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and ye have kept and done [them] (for it [is] your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes , and they have said , Only, a people wise and understanding [is] this great nation .
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`For which [is] the great nation that hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God , in all we have called unto him?
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and which [is] the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day ?
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`Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen , and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life ; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.
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`The day when thou hast stood before Jehovah thy God in Horeb -- in Jehovah's saying unto me, Assemble to Me the people, and I cause them to hear My words , so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and their sons they teach; --
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and ye draw near and stand under the mountain , and the mountain is burning with fire unto the heart of the heavens -- darkness , cloud , yea, thick darkness :
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`And Jehovah speaketh unto you out of the midst of the fire ; a voice of words ye are hearing and a similitude ye are not seeing , only a voice ;
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and He declareth to you His covenant, which He hath commanded you to do, the Ten Matters, and He writeth them upon two tables of stone .
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`And me hath Jehovah commanded at that time to teach you statutes and judgments , for your doing them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it;
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and ye have been very watchful of your souls , for ye have not seen any similitude in the day of Jehovah's speaking unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire ,
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lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image , a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female --
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a form of any beast which [is] in the earth -- a form of any winged bird which flieth in the heavens --
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a form of any creeping thing on the ground -- a form of any fish which [is] in the waters under the earth ;
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`And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens , and hast seen the sun , and the moon , and the stars, all the host of the heavens , and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens .
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`And you hath Jehovah taken, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt , to be to Him for a people -- an inheritance , as [at] this day .
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`And Jehovah hath shewed himself wroth with me because of your words , and sweareth to my not passing over the Jordan , and to my not going in unto the good land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance ;
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for I am dying in this land ; I am not passing over the Jordan , and ye are passing over, and have possessed this good land .
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`Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God , which He hath made with you, and have made to yourselves a graven image , a similitude of anything [concerning] which Jehovah thy God hath charged thee:
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for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming -- a zealous God .
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`When thou begettest sons and sons' sons, and ye have become old in the land , and have done corruptly, and have made a graven image , a similitude of anything, and have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah , to provoke Him to anger : --
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I have caused to testify against you this day the heavens and the earth , that ye do perish utterly hastily from off the land whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it; ye do not prolong days upon it, but are utterly destroyed;
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and Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples , and ye have been left few in number among the nations , whither Jehovah leadeth you,
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and ye have served there gods , work of man's hands , wood and stone , which see not, nor hear , nor eat , nor smell.
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`And -- ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God , and hast found , when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul ,
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in distress [being] to thee, and all these things have found thee, in the latter end of the days , and thou hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God , and hast hearkened to His voice ;
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for a merciful God [is] Jehovah thy God ; He doth not fail thee, nor destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers , which He hath sworn to them.
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`For, ask, I pray thee, at the former days which have been before thee, from the day that God prepared man on the earth , and from the [one] end of the heavens even unto the [other] end of the heavens , whether there hath been as this great thing -- or hath been heard like it?
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Hath a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire , as thou hast heard , thou -- and doth live?
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Or hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation , by trials, by signs , and by wonders, and by war , and by a strong hand , and by a stretched-out arm , and by great terrors -- according to all that Jehovah your God hath done to you, in Egypt , before your eyes ?
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Thou, thou hast been shewn [it], to know that Jehovah He [is] God ; there is none else besides Him.
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`From the heavens He hath caused thee to hear His voice , to instruct thee, and on earth He hath shewed thee His great fire , and His words thou hast heard out of the midst of the fire .
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`And because that He hath loved thy fathers , He doth also fix on their seed after them, and doth bring thee out, in His presence, by His great power , from Egypt :
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to dispossess nations greater and stronger than thou, from thy presence, to bring thee in to give to thee their land -- an inheritance , as [at] this day .
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`And thou hast known to-day , and hast turned [it] back unto thy heart, that Jehovah He [is] God , in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath -- there is none else;
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and thou hast kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding thee to-day , so that it is well to thee, and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- all the days .'
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Then Moses separateth three cities beyond the Jordan , towards the sun -rising ,
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for the fleeing thither of the man-slayer, who slayeth his neighbour unknowingly, and he is not hating him heretofore, and he hath fled unto one of these cities , and he hath lived:
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Bezer, in the wilderness , in the land of the plain, of the Reubenite; and Ramoth, in Gilead , of the Gadite; and Golan, in Bashan, of the Manassahite.
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And this [is] the law which Moses hath set before the sons of Israel ;
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these [are] the testimonies, and the statutes , and the judgments , which Moses hath spoken unto the sons of Israel , in their coming out of Egypt ,
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beyond the Jordan , in the valley over-against Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon , whom Moses and the sons of Israel have smitten , in their coming out of Egypt ,
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and they possess his land , and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorite who [are] beyond the Jordan , [towards] the sun-rising ;
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from Aroer, which [is] by the edge of the brook Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which [is] Hermon --
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and all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain , under the springs of Pisgah.