Now thereforehearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the landwhich the LORD God of yourfathersgiveth you.
Ye shall not add unto the wordwhich I command you, neithershall ye diminishoughtfrom it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORDyour God which I command you.
Keeptherefore and do them; for this is yourwisdom and yourunderstanding in the sight of the nations, whichshallhear all thesestatutes, and say, Surelythisgreatnation is a wise and understandingpeople.
Onlytakeheed to thyself, and keep thy souldiligently, lestthouforget the thingswhichthineeyeshaveseen, and lesttheydepartfrom thy heart all the days of thy life: but teachthem thy sons, and thy sons’sons;
Specially the day thatthoustoodestbefore the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORDsaidunto me, Gather me the peopletogether, and I willmakethemhear my words, thatthey may learn to fear me all the daysthattheyshallliveupon the earth, and thatthey may teachtheirchildren.
Take ye thereforegoodheeduntoyourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORDspakeunto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
And lestthoulift up thineeyesuntoheaven, and whenthouseest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worshipthem, and servethem, which the LORD thy God hathdividedunto all nationsunder the wholeheaven.
But the LORDhathtaken you, and brought you forth out of the ironfurnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Furthermore the LORD was angrywith me for yoursakes, and swarethat I should not go overJordan, and that I should not go in untothatgoodland, which the LORD thy God giveththee for an inheritance:
Takeheeduntoyourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORDyour God, which he madewith you, and make you a gravenimage, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hathforbiddenthee.
Whenthoushaltbegetchildren, and children’schildren, and ye shallhaveremainedlong in the land, and shallcorruptyourselves, and make a gravenimage, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
I callheaven and earth to witnessagainst you this day, that ye shallsoonutterlyperishfrom off the landwhereunto ye go overJordan to possess it; ye shall not prolongyourdaysupon it, but shallutterly be destroyed.
Whenthou art in tribulation, and all thesethings are comeuponthee, even in the latterdays, if thouturn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedientunto his voice;
For ask now of the daysthat are past, whichwerebeforethee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heavenunto the other, whethertherehathbeen any suchthing as thisgreatthing is, or hathbeenheardlike it?
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nationfrom the midst of anothernation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mightyhand, and by a stretched out arm, and by greatterrors, according to all that the LORDyour God did for you in Egyptbeforeyoureyes?
Out of heaven he madethee to hear his voice, that he mightinstructthee: and uponearth he shewedthee his greatfire; and thouheardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Thoushaltkeeptherefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I commandtheethis day, that it may go wellwiththee, and with thy childrenafterthee, and thatthoumayestprolong thy daysupon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveththee, for ever.
That the slayermightfleethither, whichshouldkill his neighbourunawares, and hated him not in timespast; and thatfleeingunto one of thesecities he mightlive:
On thissideJordan, in the valleyoveragainstBethpeor, in the land of Sihonking of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whomMoses and the children of Israelsmote, aftertheywerecomeforth out of Egypt: