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4 “Now therefore, listen, O Israel, to the Ordinances and to the Laws which I teach you to do, so that you may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers gives you.
2 “You shall add nothing to the Word which I command you. Nor shall you take anything from it, so that you may keep the Commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
3 “Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor. For of all the men who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God has destroyed every one from among you.
4 “But you who clung to the LORD your God are alive, every one of you, this day.
5 “Behold, I have taught you Ordinances and Laws, as the LORD my God Commanded me, so that you should do the same within the land to which you go to possess.
6 “Keep them, therefore, and do them. For that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the people who shall hear all these Ordinances, and shall say, ‘Only this people is wise and of understanding, a great nation.
7 ‘For what nation is so great, to whom the gods come so near as the LORD our God is in all that we call to Him for?’
8 “And what nation is so great that it has Ordinances and Laws so righteous as all this Law which I set before you this day?
9 “But guard yourself. And keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen. And that they do not depart out of your heart all the days of your life. But teach them to your sons, and your sons’ sons,
10 “the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb when the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people together for Me. And I will cause them to hear My Words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they shall live upon the Earth, and that they may teach their children.’
11 “Then you came near and stood under the mountain. And the mountain burnt with fire, up to the midst of Heaven—darkness, clouds and mist.
12 “And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the Voice of the words but saw no Image, only the Voice.
13 “Then He declared to you His Covenant, which He Commanded you to do—The Ten Commandments—and wrote them upon two Tablets of stone.
14 “And the LORD Commanded me at that same time that I should teach you Ordinances and Laws, which you should observe in the land to which you go to possess.
15 “Therefore, take good heed to yourselves (for you saw no image on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire)
16 “so that you do not corrupt yourselves and make yourself a graven image or representation of any figure (the likeness of male or female,
17 “the likeness of any beast that is on Earth, the likeness of any feathered fowl that flies in the air,
18 “the likeness of anything that creeps on the Earth, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the Earth)
19 “and lest you lift up your eyes to Heaven, and when you see the Sun and the Moon and the stars with all the host of Heaven, be driven to worship them and serve them which the LORD your God has distributed to all people under the whole Heaven.
20 “But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to Him a people and inheritance, as it is this day.
21 “And the LORD was angry with me for your words and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
22 “For I must die in this land and shall not go over Jordan. But you shall go over and possess that good land.
23 “Guard yourselves, lest you forget the Covenant of the LORD your God which He made with you, and you make any graven image or likeness of anything, as the LORD your God has charged you.
24 “For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
25 “When you shall bear children and children’s children and shall have remained long in the land, if you corrupt yourselves and make any graven image out of anything and work evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke Him to anger,
26 “I call Heaven and Earth to record against you this day, that you shall shortly perish from the land to which you go over Jordan to possess. You shall not prolong your days there, but shall be utterly destroyed.
27 “And the LORD shall scatter you among the people. And you shall be left few in number among the nations where the LORD shall bring you.
28 “And there you shall serve gods, the work of man’s hand—wood and stone—which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
29 “But if, from then on, you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find Him. If you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 “When you are in tribulation, and all these things have come upon you, at the end of the day, if you return to the LORD your God and be obedient to His Voice,
31 “(for the LORD your God is a merciful God) He will not forsake you or destroy you or forget the Covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
32 “For inquire now about the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the Earth, and whether there has been as great a thing as this from the one end of Heaven to the other, or whether anything like this has been heard.
33 “Did people ever hear the Voice of God speaking out of the midst of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?
34 “Or has God attempted to go and take a nation for Himself from among nations—by temptations, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty Hand, by an outstretched Arm, and by great fear—according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 “To you it was shown, so that you might know that the LORD He is God, that there is none but He alone.
36 “Out of Heaven He made you hear His Voice to instruct you. And upon Earth He showed you His great fire. And you heard His Voice out of the midst of the fire.
37 “And because He loved your fathers, He therefore chose their seed after them. And He has brought you out of Egypt in His sight, by His mighty power,
38 “to thrust out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for inheritance, as it happens this day.
39 “Understand, therefore, this day, and consider in your heart that the LORD Himself is God in Heaven above, and upon the Earth beneath. There is no other.
40 “You shall therefore keep His Ordinances and His Commandments which I command you this day, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you and that you may prolong your days upon the Earth which the LORD your God gives you forever.”
41 Then Moses separated three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising Sun,
42 so that the slayer who had killed his neighbor unintentionally, and had not hated him in the past, could flee from there. That is to say, he might flee to one of these cities and live:
43 Bezer in the wilderness in the plain country of the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead among the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan, among those of Manasseh.
44 So this is the Law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
45 These are the witnesses and the Ordinances and the Laws which Moses declared to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt.
46 On this side of Jordan, in the valley next to Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon, King of the Amorites (who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel killed, after they had come out of Egypt).
47 And they possessed his land and the land of Og, king of Bashan (two kings of the Amorites who were on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising Sun):
48 from Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, to mount Sion (which is Hermon),
49 and all the plain (from Jordan, eastward to the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah).
5 Then Moses called all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the Ordinances and the Laws which I propose to you this day, so that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.
2 “The LORD our God made a Covenant with us in Horeb.
3 “The LORD did not only make this Covenant with our fathers, but with us. That is, all of us here alive this day.
4 “The LORD talked with you face to face on the Mount, out of the midst of the fire.
5 “At that time, I stood between the LORD and you, to declare to you the Word of the LORD. For you were afraid at the sight of the fire and did not go up on the Mount. And He said,
6 ‘I am the LORD your God, Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
7 ‘You shall have no other gods before My Face.
8 ‘You shall make no graven image for yourself, any likeness that is in Heaven above, which is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the Earth.
9 ‘You shall neither bow yourself to them, nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me,
10 ‘and showing mercy to thousands of those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
11 ‘You shall not take the Name of the LORD your God in vain. For the LORD will not hold him guiltless who lifts up His Name in a frivolous way.
12 ‘Keep the Sabbath day, to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has Commanded you.
13 ‘Six days you shall labor and shall do all your work.
14 ‘But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. You shall not do any work—you or your son or your daughter or your manservant or your maid or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or the stranger that is within your gates—so that your manservant and your maid may rest as well as you.
15 ‘For, remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt. And the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty Hand and an outstretched Arm. Therefore, the LORD your God Commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
16 ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has Commanded you, so that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.
17 ‘You shall not kill.
18 ‘Nor shall you commit adultery.
19 ‘Nor shall you steal.
20 ‘Nor shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.
21 ‘Nor shall you covet your neighbor’s wife. Nor shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his manservant, his maid, his ox, his donkey or anything that your neighbor has.’
22 “These words the LORD spoke with a great Voice to all your multitude on the Mount—out of the midst of the fire, the cloud and the darkness—and added no more. And He wrote them upon two Tablets of stone and delivered them to me.
23 “And when you heard the Voice out of the midst of the darkness (for the mountain burned with fire), then you came to me, all the chiefs of your tribes, and your elders,
24 “and you said, ‘Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His Glory and His greatness. And we have heard His Voice out of the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God talks with man, and he lives.
25 ‘Now, therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us if we hear the Voice of the LORD our God anymore. We shall die.
26 ‘For what flesh was there ever that heard the Voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire as we have, and lived?
27 ‘You go near and hear all that the LORD our God says and declare to us all that the LORD our God says to you. And we will hear it and do it.’
28 “Then the LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.
29 ‘Oh that there were such a heart in them to fear Me, and to keep all My Commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever.
30 ‘Go. Say to them, “Return into your tents.”
31 ‘But you stand here with Me. And I will tell you all the Commandments and the Ordinances and the Laws which you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.
32 ‘Be careful, therefore, to do as the LORD your God has Commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
33 ‘Walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has Commanded you, so that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.’”
6 “These, now, are the Commandments, Ordinances, and Laws, which the LORD your God Commanded to teach, so that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess,
2 “so that you might fear the LORD your God and keep all His Ordinances and his Commandments which I command you—you and your son and your son’s son, all the days of your life—so that your days may be prolonged.
3 “Hear, therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do it, so that it may go well with you, and that you may increase mightily in the land that flows with milk and honey, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you.
4 “Hear, O Israel, The LORD our God is LORD only,
5 “and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
6 “And these words which I command you this day shall be in your heart.
7 “And you shall repeat them continually to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and as you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8 “And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand. And they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
9 “Also, you shall write them upon the posts of your house and upon your gates.
10 “And when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to you, with great and beautiful cities which you did not build,
11 “and houses full of all manner of goods which you did not fill, wells dug which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant. And you have eaten and are full.
12 “Beware, lest you forget the LORD, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 “You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve Him, and shall swear by His Name.
14 “You shall not walk after other gods, the gods of the people who are all around you
15 “(for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest the wrath of the LORD your God be kindled against you and destroy you from the face of the Earth.
16 “You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted Him in Massah.
17 “You shall diligently keep the Commandments of the LORD your God, and His Testimonies and His Ordinances which He has commanded you.
18 “And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that you may prosper, and that you may go in and possess that good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,
19 “to cast out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
20 “When your son shall ask you in the future, saying, ‘What do these Testimonies and Ordinances and Laws which the LORD our God has Commanded you mean?’
21 “Then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. But the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty Hand.
22 ‘And the LORD showed great and unpleasant signs and wonders before our eyes, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household,
23 ‘and brought us out from there, to bring us in and to give us the land which He swore to our fathers.
24 ‘Therefore, the LORD has Commanded us to do all these Ordinances, to fear the LORD our God, so that it may go well with us, and that He may preserve us alive at the present time.
25 ‘Moreover, this shall be our righteousness before the LORD our God, if we take heed to keep all these Commandments, as He has Commanded us.’
11 And when they came near Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, to the mount of Olives, He sent forth two of His disciples,
2 and said to them, “Go into that town over there. And as soon as you enter it, you shall find a colt, tied, upon which never a man sat. Untie him and bring him.
3 “And if anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ Say that the Lord has need of him. And He will return him immediately.”
4 And they went their way and found a colt, tied by the door outside, at an intersection. And they untied him.
5 Then some of those who stood there said to them, “Why are you untying that colt?”
6 And they said to them as Jesus had commanded them. So, they let them go.
7 And they brought the colt to Jesus and laid their garments on him. And He sat upon him.
8 And many spread their garments along the way. Others cut down branches off the trees and spread them in the way.
9 And those who went before and who followed, cried, saying, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!
10 “Blessed is the Kingdom that comes in the Name of the Lord of our father David! Hosanna! O You Who are in the highest heavens!”
11 So Jesus entered into Jerusalem and went into the Temple. And when He had looked around at everything (and it was evening) He went forth to Bethany with the twelve.
12 And the next day, on the way back from Bethany, He became hungry.
13 And seeing a fig tree at a distance which had leaves, He went to see if He might find anything on it. But when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves. For the time of figs was not yet.
14 Then Jesus answered, and said to it, “Never shall anyone eat fruit from you again while the world stands.” And His disciples heard it.
15 And they came to Jerusalem. And Jesus went into the Temple and began to cast out those who sold and bought in the Temple and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold doves;
16 nor would He allow anyone to carry merchandise through the Temple.
17 And He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My House shall be called the House of Prayer, to all nations’!? But you have made it a den of thieves!”
18 And the Scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how to destroy Him. For they feared Him, because the whole multitude was astonished at His doctrine.
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