Deuteronomy 4
4
Introduction to the Stipulations
1“Now, Israel, listen to the rules and to the regulations that I am teaching you to do, in order that you may live and you may go in and you may take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,#Or “fathers” is giving to you. 2You must not add to the word that I am commanding you, and you shall not take away from it in order to keep#Or “observe” the commands of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you to observe. 3Your eyes have seen#Literally “your eyes the seeing what” what Yahweh did with#Or “in” the case of Baal Peor, for each#Literally “every one of” man that followed after Baal Peor Yahweh your God destroyed from your midst. 4But you, the ones holding fast to Yahweh your God, are all alive today.#Literally “the day”
5See, I now teach#Or “I have taught” (compare NASB, NEB) you rules and regulations just as Yahweh my God has commanded me, to observe them just so in the midst of the land where you are going, to take possession of it. 6And you must observe them diligently,#Literally “you must observe and you must do” for that is your wisdom and your insight before the eyes of the people, who will hear all of these rules, and they will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people.’ 7For what great nation has for it a god near to it as Yahweh our God, whenever#Literally “in every matter/every time we call ” we call upon him? 8And what other great nation has for it#Literally “which/that is for him it” just rules and regulations just like#Literally “as” this whole#Literally “all of” law that I am setting before#Literally “to the face of” you today?#Literally “the day”
9“However, take care#Literally “watch” for yourself and watch your inner self#Or “soul” closely, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not slip from your mind all the days of your life; and you shall make them known to your children and to your grandchildren.#Literally “the children of your children” 10Remember the day that you stood before#Literally “to the face of” Yahweh your God at Horeb when Yahweh said to me,#Literally “when to say Yahweh” ‘Summon for me the people so that I can tell them my words, that they may learn to fear me all of the days they are alive on the earth and so that they may teach their children.’ 11And so you came near, and you stood under the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire up to the heart of the heaven, dark with a very thick cloud.#Literally “darkness, cloud, and very thick darkness” 12And Yahweh spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard#Literally “you were hearing” a sound of words, but you did not see#Literally “you were not seeing” a form—only a voice. 13And he declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments,#Literally “the ten words” which he charged you to observe,#Literally “to do” and he wrote them on the two tablets of stone. 14And Yahweh charged me at that time to teach you rules and regulations for your observation of them#Literally “for your doing them” in the land that you are about to cross into#Literally “about to cross into there” to take possession of it.
15“So you must be very careful for yourselves,#Literally “watch yourselves diligently with respect to your souls” because you did not see#Or “have not seen” any form on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, 16so that you do not ruin yourselves#Literally “corrupt yourselves” and make for yourselves a divine image in a form of any image, a replica of male or female, 17a replica of any animal that is upon the earth, a replica of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18a replica of any creeping thing on the ground, a replica of any fish that is in the water below#Literally “under” the earth. 19And do this so that you do not lift#Literally “And lest you lift up” your eyes toward heaven and observe#Literally “see” the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of the heaven, and be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that Yahweh your God has allotted to all of the peoples under all of the heaven. 20But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out from the furnace of iron, from Egypt, to be a people of inheritance to#Or “for”; a people of inheritance = a people who is his very own possession him, as it is this day.#Literally “as the day the this” = as you are now
21“And Yahweh was angry with me because of you,#Literally “because of your matter” and he swore that I would not cross the Jordan#Literally “not I to cross the Jordan” and that I would not go to the good land#Literally “not I going to the land” that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance. 22For I am going to die in this land; I am not going to cross the Jordan, but you are going to cross, and you are going to take possession of this good land. 23Watch out for yourselves so that you do not forget the covenant of Yahweh your God that he had made#Literally “cut” with you and make for yourselves a divine image of the form of anything that Yahweh your God has forbidden,#Literally “has commanded you about” 24for Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous#Or “zealous” or “impassioned” God.
25“When you have had children and grandchildren#Literally “children of children” and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image of the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, thus provoking him to anger, 26I call#Or “I shall call to witness” to witness against you today the heaven and the earth, that you will perish soon and completely from the land that you are crossing the Jordan into it to take possession of it; you will not live long on it,#Literally “you will not extend days” but you will be completely destroyed. 27And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number#Literally “people of number,” as opposed to people without number among the nations to where Yahweh will lead you.#Literally “he will lead Yahweh you there” 28And you will there serve gods made by human hands,#Literally “the work of the hands of human” of wood and stone, gods that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell. 29But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.#Or “inner self” 30In your distress#Literally “In the distress for you” when#Hebrew “and” all these things have found you in the latter days,#Literally “in the last of the days” then#Hebrew “and” you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice. 31For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he will not abandon you,#Literally “will not leave you alone” and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors#Or “fathers” that he swore to them.
32“Yes, ask, please, about former days that preceded you#Literally “that they were to the face of you” from the day that God created humankind on the earth; ask even from one end of the heaven up to the other end of heaven whether anything ever happened#Literally “was it ever” like this great thing or whether anything like it was ever heard.#Literally “was it ever heard as it” 33Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, just as you heard it, and lived? 34Or has a god ever attempted to go to take for himself#Hebrew “for him” a nation from the midst of a nation, using trials and signs and wonders and war, with an outstretched arm and with great and awesome deeds, like all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35You yourselves#Emphatic use of pronoun; plural meaning implied were shown this wonder in order for you to acknowledge that Yahweh is the God;#The definite article indicates that Israel’s God is alone the true God and the one who revealed himself to them there is no other God besides him.#Literally “except him” or “to him alone” 36From heaven he made you hear his voice to teach you, and on the earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from the midst of the fire. 37And because he loved your ancestors#Or “fathers” he chose their descendants#Literally “seed” after them. And he brought you forth from Egypt with his own presence,#Literally “with his faces” by his great strength, 38to drive out nations greater and more numerous than you from before you,#Literally “from your face” to bring you and to give to you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day. 39So you shall acknowledge today,#Literally “the day” and you must call to mind#Literally “you shall bring back to your heart” that Yahweh is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no other God. 40And you shall keep his rules and his commandments that I am commanding you today,#Literally “the day” so that it may go well#Literally “he/it is good” for you and for your children#Or “descendants” after you, and so that you may remain a long time#Literally “you may make long/prolong days” on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you during all of those days.”
41Then Moses set apart three cities on the other side of the Jordan,#Literally “in the beyond of the Jordan” toward the east,#Literally “toward rising of the sun” 42in order for a manslayer#Literally “a killer of a man” to flee there who has killed his neighbor without intent#Literally “without previous knowledge” and was not hating him previously,#Literally “the day before yesterday” and so he could flee to one of these cities and be safe.#Literally “and live” 43He set apart Bezer in the wilderness#Or “desert” in the land of the plateau of the Reubenites;#Hebrew “Reubenite” Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites,#Hebrew “Gadite” and Golan in Bashan of the Manassites.#Hebrew “Manassite”
44Now this is the law#Hebrew “the torah” = teaching, instruction, law that Moses set before#Literally “before the faces of” the Israelites;#Literally “sons/children of Israel” 45these are the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Moses spoke to the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” when they left Egypt,#Literally “at their going out from Egypt” 46beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth Peor in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites,#Hebrew “Amorite” who was reigning in Heshbon and whom Moses and the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” defeated when they came out of Egypt.#Literally “at their going out from Egypt” 47And so they took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites#Hebrew “Amorite” who were beyond the Jordan, eastward,#Literally “toward the rising of the sun” 48from Aroer, which is on the bank of the wadi#A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Arnon and as far as Mount Sirion; that is, Hermon, 49and all of the Arabah#Or “valley” in this instance beyond the Jordan, eastward, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah#Commonly known today as the Dead Sea under the slopes of Pisgah.
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Deuteronomy 4
4
1‘And now, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving to you.
2Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.
3‘Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;
4and ye who are cleaving to Jehovah your God, [are] alive, all of you, to-day.
5‘See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as Jehovah my God hath commanded me — to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it;
6and ye have kept and done [them] (for it [is] your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding [is] this great nation.
7‘For which [is] the great nation that hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God, in all we have called unto him?
8and which [is] the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?
9‘Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.
10‘The day when thou hast stood before Jehovah thy God in Horeb — in Jehovah's saying unto me, Assemble to Me the people, and I cause them to hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and their sons they teach; —
11and ye draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire unto the heart of the heavens — darkness, cloud, yea, thick darkness:
12‘And Jehovah speaketh unto you out of the midst of the fire; a voice of words ye are hearing and a similitude ye are not seeing, only a voice;
13and He declareth to you His covenant, which He hath commanded you to do, the Ten Matters, and He writeth them upon two tables of stone.
14‘And me hath Jehovah commanded at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it;
15and ye have been very watchful of your souls, for ye have not seen any similitude in the day of Jehovah's speaking unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
16lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female —
17a form of any beast which [is] in the earth — a form of any winged bird which flieth in the heavens —
18a form of any creeping thing on the ground — a form of any fish which [is] in the waters under the earth;
19‘And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.
20‘And you hath Jehovah taken, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him for a people — an inheritance, as [at] this day.
21‘And Jehovah hath shewed himself wroth with me because of your words, and sweareth to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going in unto the good land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — an inheritance;
22for I am dying in this land; I am not passing over the Jordan, and ye are passing over, and have possessed this good land.
23‘Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He hath made with you, and have made to yourselves a graven image, a similitude of anything [concerning] which Jehovah thy God hath charged thee:
24for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming — a zealous God.
25‘When thou begettest sons and sons' sons, and ye have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a graven image, a similitude of anything, and have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger: —
26I have caused to testify against you this day the heavens and the earth, that ye do perish utterly hastily from off the land whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it; ye do not prolong days upon it, but are utterly destroyed;
27and Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah leadeth you,
28and ye have served there gods, work of man's hands, wood and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29‘And — ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
30in distress [being] to thee, and all these things have found thee, in the latter end of the days, and thou hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hast hearkened to His voice;
31for a merciful God [is] Jehovah thy God; He doth not fail thee, nor destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which He hath sworn to them.
32‘For, ask, I pray thee, at the former days which have been before thee, from the day that God prepared man on the earth, and from the [one] end of the heavens even unto the [other] end of the heavens, whether there hath been as this great thing — or hath been heard like it?
33Hath a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, thou — and doth live?
34Or hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretchedout arm, and by great terrors — according to all that Jehovah your God hath done to you, in Egypt, before your eyes?
35Thou, thou hast been shewn [it], to know that Jehovah He [is] God; there is none else besides Him.
36‘From the heavens He hath caused thee to hear His voice, to instruct thee, and on earth He hath shewed thee His great fire, and His words thou hast heard out of the midst of the fire.
37‘And because that He hath loved thy fathers, He doth also fix on their seed after them, and doth bring thee out, in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt:
38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than thou, from thy presence, to bring thee in to give to thee their land — an inheritance, as [at] this day.
39‘And thou hast known to-day, and hast turned [it] back unto thy heart, that Jehovah He [is] God, in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath — there is none else;
40and thou hast kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, so that it is well to thee, and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — all the days.’
41Then Moses separateth three cities beyond the Jordan, towards the sun-rising,
42for the fleeing thither of the man-slayer, who slayeth his neighbour unknowingly, and he is not hating him heretofore, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, and he hath lived:
43Bezer, in the wilderness, in the land of the plain, of the Reubenite; and Ramoth, in Gilead, of the Gadite; and Golan, in Bashan, of the Manassahite.
44And this [is] the law which Moses hath set before the sons of Israel;
45these [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses hath spoken unto the sons of Israel, in their coming out of Egypt,
46beyond the Jordan, in the valley over-against Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel have smitten, in their coming out of Egypt,
47and they possess his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorite who [are] beyond the Jordan, [towards] the sun-rising;
48from Aroer, which [is] by the edge of the brook Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which [is] Hermon —
49and all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
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