Deuteronomy 4:1-14 - Call To Obedience
1 And now Israel, hear to the laws and to the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye shall live and go in and possess the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers gave to you. 2 Ye shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, and ye shall not take away from it., to watch the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you. 3 Your eyes saw what Jehovah did upon Baal-Peor: for every man who went after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God destroyed him from the midst of you. 4 And ye cleaving to Jehovah your God, are living all of you this day. 5 See, I taught you laws and judgments as Jehovah my God commanded me, to do thus in the midst of the land where ye are going there to possess it 6 And watch and do: for it is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who shall hear all these laws, and say, Only this great nation a wise and understanding people. 7 For what great nation to whom God being near to it as Jehovah our God in all our calling to him? 8 And what great nation to whom laws and judgments just, as all the instructions which I give before you this day?
9 Only watch to thyself and watch thy soul greatly, lest thou. shalt forget the words which thine eyes saw, and lest they shall remove from thy heart all the days of thy life: and make them known to thy sons and to the sons of thy sons. 10 The day thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, in Jehovah saying to me, Gather to me the people and I will cause them to hear my word, that they shall be taught to fear me all the days which they live upon the land; and they shall teach their sons. 11 And ye shall come near and shall stand under the mountain; .and the mountain burnt with fire even to the heart of the heavens, darkness, cloud, and gloom. 12 And Jehovah will speak to you from the midst of the fire, ye hearing a voice of words, and ye seeing not an appearance, except a voice. 13 And he will announce to you his covenant which he commanded you to do, the ten words; and he will write them upon two tables of stones. 14 And Jehovah commanded me in that time to teach you laws and judgments for you to do them in the land which ye are passing over there to possess it