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Deuteronomy 4:23-40
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23 Watch out for yourselves so that you do not forget the covenant of Yahweh your God that he had made[a] with you and make for yourselves a divine image of the form of anything that Yahweh your God has forbidden,[b] 24 for Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous[c] God.

25 “When you have had children and grandchildren[d] 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, 26 I call[e] 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,[f] but you will be completely destroyed. 27 And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number[g] among the nations to where Yahweh will lead you.[h] 28 And you will there serve gods made by human hands,[i] of wood and stone, gods that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell. 29 But 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.[j] 30 In your distress[k] when[l] all these things have found you in the latter days,[m] then[n] you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice. 31 For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he will not abandon you,[o] and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors[p] that he swore to them.

32 “Yes, ask, please, about former days that preceded you[q] 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[r] like this great thing or whether anything like it was ever heard.[s] 33 Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, just as you heard it, and lived? 34 Or has a god ever attempted to go to take for himself[t] 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? 35 You yourselves[u] were shown this wonder in order for you to acknowledge that Yahweh is the God;[v] there is no other God besides him.[w] 36 From 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. 37 And because he loved your ancestors[x] he chose their descendants[y] after them. And he brought you forth from Egypt with his own presence,[z] by his great strength, 38 to drive out nations greater and more numerous than you from before you,[aa] to bring you and to give to you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day. 39 So you shall acknowledge today,[ab] and you must call to mind[ac] that Yahweh is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no other God. 40 And you shall keep his rules and his commandments that I am commanding you today,[ad] so that it may go well[ae] for you and for your children[af] after you, and so that you may remain a long time[ag] on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you during all of those days.”

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:23 Literally “cut”
  2. Deuteronomy 4:23 Literally “has commanded you about”
  3. Deuteronomy 4:24 Or “zealous” or “impassioned”
  4. Deuteronomy 4:25 Literally “children of children”
  5. Deuteronomy 4:26 Or “I shall call to witness”
  6. Deuteronomy 4:26 Literally “you will not extend days”
  7. Deuteronomy 4:27 Literally “people of number,” as opposed to people without number
  8. Deuteronomy 4:27 Literally “he will lead Yahweh you there”
  9. Deuteronomy 4:28 Literally “the work of the hands of human”
  10. Deuteronomy 4:29 Or “inner self”
  11. Deuteronomy 4:30 Literally “In the distress for you”
  12. Deuteronomy 4:30 Hebrew “and”
  13. Deuteronomy 4:30 Literally “in the last of the days”
  14. Deuteronomy 4:30 Hebrew “and”
  15. Deuteronomy 4:31 Literally “will not leave you alone”
  16. Deuteronomy 4:31 Or “fathers”
  17. Deuteronomy 4:32 Literally “that they were to the face of you”
  18. Deuteronomy 4:32 Literally “was it ever”
  19. Deuteronomy 4:32 Literally “was it ever heard as it”
  20. Deuteronomy 4:34 Hebrew “for him”
  21. Deuteronomy 4:35 Emphatic use of pronoun; plural meaning implied
  22. Deuteronomy 4:35 The definite article indicates that Israel’s God is alone the true God and the one who revealed himself to them
  23. Deuteronomy 4:35 Literally “except him” or “to him alone”
  24. Deuteronomy 4:37 Or “fathers”
  25. Deuteronomy 4:37 Literally “seed”
  26. Deuteronomy 4:37 Literally “with his faces”
  27. Deuteronomy 4:38 Literally “from your face”
  28. Deuteronomy 4:39 Literally “the day”
  29. Deuteronomy 4:39 Literally “you shall bring back to your heart”
  30. Deuteronomy 4:40 Literally “the day”
  31. Deuteronomy 4:40 Literally “he/it is good”
  32. Deuteronomy 4:40 Or “descendants”
  33. Deuteronomy 4:40 Literally “you may make long/prolong days”
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