Verse 17
Deuteronomy 4:17
World English Bible, British Edition
17
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any
winged bird that flies in the sky,
Original Language Text
hebrew
תַּבְנִ֕ית כָּל בְּהֵמָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּ/אָ֑רֶץ תַּבְנִית֙ כָּל צִפּ֣וֹר כָּנָ֔ף אֲשֶׁ֥ר תָּע֖וּף בַּ/שָּׁמָֽיִם
English Translation
The form of every animal that is on the earth, the form of every bird that flies in the heavens.
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Chapter 4 Context
1
Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you,
to do them, that you ma...
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2
You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take
away from it, that you may...
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3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor; for the LORD
your God (Elohim) has destr...
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4
But you who were faithful to the LORD your God (Elohim) are all alive today.
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5
Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the LORD my
God (Elohim) commanded me, th...
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6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding
in the sight of the peopl...
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7
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as the LORD
our God (Elohim) is whenev...
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8
What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous
as all this law which I set...
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9
Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget
the things which your eyes saw, and...
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10
the day that you stood before the LORD your God (Elohim) in Horeb, when the LORD
said to me, “Assemb...
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11
You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burnt with
fire to the heart of the sky, wi...
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12
The LORD spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice
of words, but you saw no fo...
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13
He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform,
even the ten commandments. He wr...
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14
The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances,
that you might do them in t...
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15
Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that the LORD
spoke to you in Horeb out of t...
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16
lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the
form of any figure, the likenes...
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17
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any
winged bird that flies in the s...
18
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of
any fish that is in the water un...
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19
and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun
and the moon and the stars, even...
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20
But the LORD has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace,
out of Egypt, to be to him a pe...
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21
Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that
I should not go over the Jorda...
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22
but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you
shall go over and possess that g...
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23
Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God (Elohim), which
he made with you, and...
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24
For the LORD your God (Elohim) is a devouring fire, a jealous God (Elohim).
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25
When you father children and children’s children, and you have been
long in the land, and then corru...
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26
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will
soon utterly perish from off the...
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27
The LORD will scatter you amongst the peoples, and you will be left
few in number amongst the nation...
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28
There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone,
which neither see, nor hear, nor...
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29
But from there you shall seek the LORD your God (Elohim), and you will find him
when you search afte...
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30
When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in
the latter days you shall retu...
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31
For the LORD your God (Elohim) is a merciful God (Elohim). He will not fail you nor destroy
you, nor...
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32
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since
the day that God (Elohim) create...
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33
Did a people ever hear the voice of God (Elohim) speaking out of the middle of
the fire, as you have...
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34
Or has God (Elohim) tried to go and take a nation for himself from amongst another
nation, by trials...
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35
It was shown to you so that you might know that the LORD is God (Elohim). There
is no one else besid...
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36
Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct
you. On earth he made you to see...
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37
Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after
them, and brought you out wi...
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38
to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you,
to bring you in, to give you the...
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39
Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that the LORD himself is
God (Elohim) in heaven above an...
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40
You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you
today, that it may go well with...
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41
Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan towards the
sunrise,
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42
that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbour unintentionally
and didn’t hate him in...
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43
Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and
Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadi...
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44
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
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45
These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which
Moses spoke to the children of...
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46
beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of
Sihon king of the Amorites, who...
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47
They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan,
the two kings of the Amorites, w...
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48
from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to
Mount Zion (also called Hermon)...
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49
and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the
Arabah, under the slopes of Pi...
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