Deuteronomy 4:32-49

English Standard Version

The Lord Alone Is God

³² “For ^(A)ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. ^33 (B)Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? ³⁴ Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, ^(C)by signs, by wonders, and ^(D)by war, ^(E)by a mighty hand and ^(F)an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ³⁵ To you it was shown, ^(G)that you might know that the Lord is God; ^(H)there is no other besides him. ^36 (I)Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and ^(J)you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. ³⁷ And because ^(K)he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them^[a] and brought you out of Egypt ^(L)with his own presence, by his great power, ^38 (M)driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day, ³⁹ know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that ^(N)the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; ^(O)there is no other. ^40 (P)Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, ^(Q)that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Cities of Refuge

⁴¹ Then Moses ^(R)set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan, ⁴² that ^(S)the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life: ^43 (T)Bezer in the wilderness on the ^(U)tableland for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

Introduction to the Law

⁴⁴ This is the law that Moses set before the people of Israel. ⁴⁵ These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt, ⁴⁶ beyond the Jordan ^(V)in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, ^(W)whom Moses and the people of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt. ⁴⁷ And they took possession of his land and the land ^(X)of Og, the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan; ^48 (Y)from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount ^(Z)Sirion^[b] (that is, ^(AA)Hermon), ⁴⁹ together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as ^(AB)the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.