Verse 23
Deuteronomy 4:23
Literal Standard Version
23
Take heed to yourselves lest you forget the covenant of your God (Elohim) YHWH which He has made with you, and have made a carved image for yourselves, a likeness of anything concerning which your God (Elohim) YHWH has charged 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
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“And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and to the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so th...
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You do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of...
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Your eyes are seeing that which YHWH has done in Ba‘al-Peor, for every man who has gone after Ba‘al-...
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and you who are cleaving to your God (Elohim) YHWH are alive today—all of you.
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See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as my God (Elohim) YHWH has commanded me, to do so in...
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and you have kept and done them (for it is your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of th...
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For which is the great nation that has God (Elohim) so near to it, as our God (Elohim) YHWH, in all...
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And which is the great nation which has righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law w...
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Only, take heed to yourself, and watch your soul exceedingly, lest you forget the things which your...
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Never forget the day when you have stood before your God (Elohim) YHWH in Horeb, in YHWH’s saying to...
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and you draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire to the heart o...
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and YHWH speaks to you out of the midst of the fire; you are hearing a voice of words, but you are s...
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and He declares His covenant to you, which He has commanded you to do, the Ten Commandments, and He...
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And YHWH has commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in t...
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And you have been very watchful of your souls, for you have not seen any likeness in the day of YHWH...
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lest you do corruptly, and have made for yourselves a carved image, a likeness of any figure: a form...
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a form of any beast which is in the earth, a form of any winged bird which flies 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 below the eart...
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And lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and have seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, a...
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And YHWH has taken you, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him f...
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And YHWH has showed Himself angry with me because of your words, and swears to my not passing over t...
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for I am dying in this land; I am not passing over the Jordan, but you are passing over and have pos...
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Take heed to yourselves lest you forget the covenant of your God (Elohim) YHWH which He has made wit...
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for your God (Elohim) YHWH is a consuming fire—a zealous God (Elohim).
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When you beget sons and sons’ sons, and you have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, an...
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I have caused the heavens and the earth to testify against you this day, that you perish utterly qui...
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and YHWH has scattered you among the peoples, and you have been left few in number among the nations...
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and you have served gods there, work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor...
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And you have sought your God (Elohim) YHWH from there, and have found Him when you seek Him with all...
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In the distress of yours, when all these things have found you in the latter end of the days, and yo...
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for your God (Elohim) YHWH is a merciful God (Elohim)—He does not fail you, nor destroy you, nor for...
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For ask now of the former days which have been before you, from the day that God (Elohim) created ma...
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Has a people heard the voice of God (Elohim) speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have hear...
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Or has God (Elohim) tried to go in to take a nation for Himself from the midst of a nation, by trial...
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You—you have been shown it, to know that He, YHWH, is God (Elohim); there is none else besides Him.
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He has caused you to hear His voice from the heavens, to instruct you; and on earth He has showed yo...
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And because that He has loved your fathers, He also fixes on their seed after them, and brings you o...
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to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you from your presence, to bring you in to give thei...
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And you have known today, and have turned it back to your heart, that He, YHWH, is God (Elohim) in t...
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and you have kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding you today, so that it is well...
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Then Moses separates three cities beyond the Jordan, toward the sun-rising,
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for the fleeing there of the manslayer who slays his neighbor unknowingly, and he is not hating him...
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Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the plain, for the Reubenite; and Ramoth in Gilead for the G...
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And this is the law which Moses has set before the sons of Israel;
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these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses has spoken to the sons o...
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beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorite, who...
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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...
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from Aroer, which is by the edge of the Brook of Arnon, even to Mount Zion, which is Hermon—
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and all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the Sea of the Plain, below the Springs of Pis...
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