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1 And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the judgments that I am teaching you to do, so that you may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, and you shall not diminish from it, to keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes see what the Lord has done at Baal Peor, for all the men who went after Baal Peor, the Lord your God has destroyed from your midst. 4 And you who cling to the LORD your God are all alive today. 5 See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as the Lord my God commanded me, to do so in the land where you are coming to inherit. 6 And you shall keep and do them, for they are 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." 7 For what great nation is there that has gods so near to it as the Lord our God is whenever we call upon Him? 8 And who is a great nation that has righteous statutes and judgments like all this law that I set before you today? 9 Only take heed to yourself and guard your soul very much, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; and you shall make them known to your children and to your children's children. 10 The day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, "Gather the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children." 11 And you approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire to the heart of the heavens, darkness, cloud, and thick mist. 12 And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire; you hear the sound of words, but you see no form; only a voice. 13 And he made known to you His covenant which He commanded you to do, the ten words, and he wrote them on two stone tablets. 14 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments to do them in the land which you are crossing over to possess. 15 And you shall be very careful for your lives, because you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire. 16 Lest you destroy yourselves, and make for yourselves a carved image, the form of any likeness, the likeness of a male or female. 17 The form of every animal that is on the earth, the form of every bird that flies in the heavens. 18 The form of every creeping thing on the ground, the form of every fish that is in the waters under the earth. 19 And lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has assigned to all the peoples under all the heavens. 20 And the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron furnace from Egypt to be to him a people of inheritance as it is this day. 21 And the LORD was angry with me because of your words and swore that I would not cross the Jordan and would not enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. 22 For I am dead in this land; I am not crossing the Jordan, and you are crossing and will inherit this good land. 23 Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has commanded you. 24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. 25 When you bear children and children's children and you become old in the land and corrupt yourselves and make a carved image, the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger. 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will surely perish quickly from the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days upon it, for you will be utterly destroyed. 27 And the LORD will scatter you among the nations, and you will be left few in number among the peoples to which the LORD will drive you. 28 And you will serve there gods, the work of human hands, wood and stone, which cannot see, and cannot hear, and cannot eat, and cannot smell. 29 And you sought the LORD your God from there, and you found Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 In your distress, all these things will find you in the latter days, and you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice. 31 For the Lord your God is a merciful God; He will not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers that He swore to them. 32 "For ask now of the days that were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has been such a great thing as this or has been heard like it." 33 Did a people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 34 Or has God attempted to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation with testings, with signs and wonders, and with war, and with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes. 35 You have shown to know that the LORD, He is the God; there is none else besides Him. 36 From the heavens, He made your voice heard to discipline you, and on the earth, He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. 37 And because he loved your ancestors, he chose their offspring after them, and he brought you out in his great power from Egypt. 38 To dispossess great and mighty nations from before you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day. 39 And you shall know this day and take to heart that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other. 40 And you shall keep My statutes and My commandments which I command you today, that it may be well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you all the days. 41 Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan eastward. 42 A person who unintentionally kills a neighbor, not hating him yesterday or the day before, shall flee to one of these cities and live. 43 The cities of Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the plateau, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites. 44 And this is the law that Moses set before the children of Israel. 45 These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments that Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they went out of Egypt. 46 On the other side of the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who dwells in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck down when they came out of Egypt. 47 And they inherited his land and the land of Og, king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, east of the sun. 48 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Arnon Valley, and up to Mount Sion, it is Hermon. 49 And all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward and as far as the Sea of the Plain at the foot of the Pisgah.