Deuteronomy 4 Now, Israel, hearken to the statutes and to the judgments that I am teaching you today, to obey them, that you may live and may enter and tenant the land that Yahweh Elohim of your fathers is giving to you.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Now, Israel, hearken to the statutes and to the judgments that I am teaching you today, to obey them, that you may live and may enter and tenant the land that Yahweh Elohim of your fathers is giving to you. ² You shall neither add to the word that I am enjoining on you, nor shall you subtract from it, but observe the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim that I am enjoining on you. ³ Your eyes were the ones seeing all that Yahweh did with regard to Baal-peor, for every man who went after Baal-peor, Yahweh your Elohim exterminated from among you. ⁴ Yet you who were clinging to Yahweh your Elohim, all of you are alive today. ⁵ See! I have taught you statutes and judgments just as Yahweh my Elohim had instructed me, for you to do thus within the land where you are entering to tenant it. ⁶ And you must observe and obey them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the eyes of all the peoples who shall hear of all these statutes and will say:Surely this great nation is a people wise and understanding. ⁷ For what great nation is there which has elohim so near to it as Yahweh our Elohim is in all that we call to Him? ⁸ And what great nation is there which has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law that I am putting before you today? ⁹ But guard yourself and keep your soul especially vigilant, lest you should forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they should withdraw from your heart, all the days of your lives. You make them known to your sons and to your sons' sons, lest you forge. ¹⁰ the day that you stood before Yahweh your Elohim at Horeb, when Yahweh said to me:Assemble the people to Me that I may let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground and may teach their sons. ¹¹ Then you approached and stood below the mountain, when the mountain was consuming with fire unto the heart of the heavens, with darkness, cloud and murkiness, ¹² and Yahweh spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you were hearing the sound of words, yet you were not seeing a physical representation, nothing except a voice. ¹³ He told you His covenant which He instructed you to keep, the ten words. Then He wrote them on two tablets of stone. ¹⁴ And Yahweh instructed me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for you to obey them in the land where you are crossing over to tenant it. ¹⁵ You must be very much on guard against your soulish desires (since you saw no physical representation at all on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire) ¹⁶ lest you should bring ruin on yourselves and make for yourselves a carving, a physical representation of any figure, a model of male or female, ¹⁷ a model of any beast which is on the earth, a model of any winged bird which flies in the heavens, ¹⁸ a model of any animal moving on the ground, a model of any fish which is in the waters below the earth. ¹⁹ Guard yourselves lest you should lift up your eyes toward the heavens, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and be induced to bow yourself down to them and serve them, which Yahweh your Elohim has apportioned to all other peoples beneath the entire heavens. ²⁰ As for you, Yahweh took you, and He brought you forth from the iron crucible, from Egypt, to become His as a people of allotment, as on this day. ²¹ Yet Yahweh showed Himself angered with me on account of your words. He swore that I would fail to cross over the Jordan and that I would fail to come to the good land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment, ²² for I am dying in this land. I am not crossing over the Jordan, but you are crossing over and will tenant that good land. ²³ Guard yourselves lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your Elohim that He contracted with you, and so you make for yourselves a carving, a physical representation of anything, against which Yahweh your Elohim had instructed you;" ²⁴ for Yahweh your Elohim, He is a devouring fire, a jealous El. ²⁵ When you beget sons and sons of sons, and find repose in the land and then become corrupt and make a carving, a physical representation of anything, and do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your Elohim so as to provoke Him to vexatio. ²⁶ I testify against you today by the heavens and the earth, that you shall perish, yea perish quickly off the land where you are crossing over the Jordan to tenant it. You shall not prolong your days on it, for you shall be exterminated, yea exterminated. ²⁷ Yahweh will cause you to scatter among the peoples, and you will remain adult males of a small number among the nations where Yahweh shall lead you. ²⁸ And there you will serve other elohim, the work of human hands, of wood and stone which are neither seeing nor hearing, neither eating nor smelling. ²⁹ Yet from there you will seek Yahweh your Elohim and find Him when you inquire for Him with all your heart and with all your soul. ³⁰ In your distress, when all these things find you in the latter days, then you will return to Yahweh your Elohim and hearken to His voice. ³¹ For Yahweh your Elohim is a compassionate El. He shall neither neglect you nor bring ruin on you, nor shall He forget the covenant of your fathers about which He had sworn to them. ³² For ask now about the former days which came before you, from the day that Elohim created humanity on the earth, and from one end of the heavens unto the other end of the heavens:Has there occurred anything like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it? ³³ Has a people ever heard the voice of the living Elohim speaking from the midst of the fire just as you heard it, and lived? ³⁴ Or has an elohim ever tried to come and take for himself a nation from among another nation by trials, by signs and by miracles, by war, by a steadfast hand and by an outstretched arm and by great fear-inspiring deeds, such as all that Yahweh your Elohim did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ³⁵ You were shown this to know that Yahweh, He is the only Elohim. There is no one else aside from Him. ³⁶ From the heavens He let you hear His voice, 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 For inasmuch as He loved your fathers and chose their seed after them and brought you forth from Egypt into His presence by His great vigor, ³⁸ to evict greater and more substantial nations than you from your presence, to bring you in and give to you their country as an allotment, as it is this day, ³⁹ so you know today, and you recall it to your heart that Yahweh, He is the only Elohim in the heavens above and on the earth beneath; there is no one else. ⁴⁰ Hence you will observe His statutes and His instructions which I am enjoining on you today, that it may be well with you and your sons after you, and that you may prolong your days on the ground that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, all the days. ⁴¹ Then Moses separated three cities in Transjordan toward the sunrise, ⁴² for the fleeing there of the manslayer who slays his associate without knowledge, when he was not hating him heretofore. Then he will flee to one of these cities that he may live. ⁴³ Bezer in the wilderness in the tableland country for the Reubenite, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadite, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassite. ⁴⁴ This is the law that Moses placed before the sons of Israel. ⁴⁵ These are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments that Moses pronounced to the sons of Israel when they had come forth from Egypt, ⁴⁶ in Transjordan in the ravine opposite Beth-peor, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorite, who was dwelling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel smote when they had come forth from Egypt. ⁴⁷ Then they tenanted his country and the country of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorite who were in Transjordan toward the sunrise, ⁴⁸ from Aroer, which is on the ridge above the watercourse of Arnon and as far as Mount Sirion (that is Hermon), ⁴⁹ and all the Transjordan Aravah toward the sunrise and as far as the sea of the Aravah below the slopes of the Pisgah ridge.