Deuteronomy 4:1-14 - Call To Obedience

¹ And now, O Israel, hearken to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you. ² Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of LORD your God which I command you. ³ Your eyes have seen what LORD did because of Baal-peor. For all the men who followed Baal-peor, LORD thy God has destroyed them from the midst of thee. ⁴ But ye who clung to LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. ⁵ Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land where ye go in to possess it. ⁶ Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. ⁷ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them, as LORD our God is whenever we call upon him? ⁸ And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances 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 saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but make them known to thy sons and thy son's sons-- ¹⁰ the day that thou stood before LORD thy God in Horeb, when LORD said to me, Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may ¹¹ And ye came near and stood under the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. ¹² And LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. Ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form, only a voice. ¹³ And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. And he wrote them upon two tablets of stone. ¹⁴ And LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land where ye go over to possess it.