begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in
earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
[25] I pray thee, let me go over,
and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
[26] But the LORD
was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice
thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
[27] Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes
westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not
go over this Jordan.
[28] But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over
before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
[29] So we abode in
the valley over against Beth-peor.
Deut.4
[1] Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to
do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth
you.
[2] Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it,
that ye 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 all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy
God hath destroyed them from among you.
[4] But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive
every one of you this day.
[5] Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my
God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
[6] Keep therefore
and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear
all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
[7] For what
nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we
call upon him for?
[8] And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous
as all this law, which I set before you this day?
[9] Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently,
lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days
of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
[10] Specially the day that thou stoodest before the
LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make
them hear my words, 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] And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the
mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
[12] And
the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only
ye heard a voice.
[13] And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform,
even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
[14] And the LORD commanded
me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go
over to possess it.
[15] Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude
on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
[16] Lest ye corrupt yourselves,
and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
[17] The likeness
of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
[18] The likeness of
any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
[19]
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars,
even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD
thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
[20] But the LORD hath taken you, and
brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as
ye are this day.
[21] Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should
not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth
thee for an inheritance:
[22] But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over,
and possess that good land.
[23] Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD
your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which
the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
[24] For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous
God.
[25] When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the
land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do
evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
[26] I call heaven and earth to witness
against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan