41 "Now , O Israel , listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform , so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord , the God of your fathers , is giving you. 2 " You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 " Your eyes have seen what e the Lord has done in the case of Baal-peor , for all the men who followed e Baal-peor , the Lord your God has destroyed them from among you. 4 "But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today , every one of you. 5 "See , I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where e you are entering to possess it. 6 "So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say , 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people .' 7 "For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as is the Lord our God whenever we call on Him? 8 "Or what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today ?
9 "Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently , so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life ; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons . 10 "Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb , when the Lord said to me, 'Assemble the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words so they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth , and that they may teach their children .' 11 "You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain , and the mountain burned with fire to the very heart of the heavens : darkness , cloud and thick gloom . 12 "Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire ; you heard the sound of words , but you saw no form -only a voice . 13 "So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform , that is, the Ten Commandments ; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone . 14 "The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments , that you might perform them in the land where e you are going over to possess it.
15 "So watch yourselves carefully , since you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire , 16 so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure , the likeness of male or female , 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth , the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky , 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground , the likeness of any fish that is in the water below e the earth . 19 "And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars , all the host of heaven , and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven . 20 "But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace , from Egypt , to be a people for His own possession , as today . 21 " Now the Lord was angry with me on your account e , and swore that I would not cross the Jordan , and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance . 22 "For I will die in this land , I shall not cross the Jordan , but you shall cross and take possession of this good land . 23 "So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the Lord your God has commanded you. 24 "For the Lord your God is a consuming fire , a jealous God . 25 "When you become the father of children and children's children and have remained long in the land , and act corruptly , and make an idol in the form of anything , and do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger , 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today , that you will surely perish quickly from the land where e you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long e on it, but will be utterly destroyed . 27 "The Lord will scatter you among the peoples , and you will be left few in number among the nations where e the Lord drives you. 28 " There you will serve gods , the work of man's hands , wood and stone , which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell . 29 " But from there you will seek the Lord your God , and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul . 30 "When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice . 31 "For the Lord your God is a compassionate God ; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them. 32 "Indeed , ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth , and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other e . Has anything been done like this great thing , or has anything been heard like it? 33 " Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire , as you have heard it, and survived ? 34 " Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials , by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors , as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes ? 35 "To you it was shown that you might know that the Lord , He is God ; there is no other besides e Him. 36 " Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire , and you heard His words from the midst of the fire . 37 " Because e He loved your fathers , therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power , 38 driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance , as it is today . 39 "Know therefore today , and take it to your heart , that the Lord , He is God in heaven above e and on the earth below e ; there is no other . 40 " So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today , that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may live long e on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time ."
41 Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east e , 42 that a manslayer might flee there , who unintentionally e slew his neighbor without having enmity toward him in time past ; and by fleeing to one of these cities he might live : 43 Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau e for the Reubenites , and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites , and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites .
44 Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel ; 45 these are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel , when they came out from Egypt , 46 across the Jordan , in the valley opposite Beth-peor , in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon , whom Moses and the sons of Israel defeated when they came out from Egypt . 47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan , the two kings of the Amorites , who were across the Jordan to the east e , 48 from Aroer , which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon , even as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon ), 49 with all the Arabah across the Jordan to the east , even as far as the sea of the Arabah , at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah .
