Verse 23
Deuteronomy 4:23
World English Bible, British Edition
23
Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God (Elohim), which
he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God (Elohim) has
forbidden you.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הִשָּׁמְר֣וּ לָ/כֶ֗ם פֶּֽן תִּשְׁכְּחוּ֙ אֶת בְּרִ֤ית יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹ֣הֵי/כֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר כָּרַ֖ת עִמָּ/כֶ֑ם וַ/עֲשִׂיתֶ֨ם לָ/כֶ֥ם פֶּ֨סֶל֙ תְּמ֣וּנַת כֹּ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוְּ/ךָ֖ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽי/ךָ
English Translation
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.
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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...
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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...
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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