Deuteronomy 4:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.

Deuteronomy 4:3   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor. The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor,

Deuteronomy 4:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are still alive today.

Deuteronomy 4:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it.

Deuteronomy 4:6   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."

Deuteronomy 4:7   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him?

Deuteronomy 4:8   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

Deuteronomy 4:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.

Deuteronomy 4:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when he said to me, "Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children."

Deuteronomy 4:11   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

Deuteronomy 4:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Then the Lord spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice.

Deuteronomy 4:13   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.

Deuteronomy 4:15   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

You saw no form of any kind the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully,

Deuteronomy 4:16   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman,

Deuteronomy 4:19   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars-all the heavenly array-do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Deuteronomy 4:21   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

The Lord was angry with me because of you, and he solemnly swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance.

Deuteronomy 4:27   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

Deuteronomy 4:28   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

Deuteronomy 4:29   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:32   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

Deuteronomy 4:33   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 4:34   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

Deuteronomy 4:35   (Read all of Deuteronomy 4)

You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.