Deuteronomy 4 (NET)

Deuteronomy 4:1¹Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:5Ezek 20:11Deut 8:1Lev 18:5Deut 30:16Deut 5:1Lev 22:31Deut 11:1Deut 11:32Deut 30:19

Deuteronomy 4:2²Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I am delivering to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:32Prov 30:6Rev 22:18-19Josh 1:7Matt 5:18Gal 3:15Eccl 12:13Mark 7:1-13Matt 15:2-9Matt 5:43

Deuteronomy 4:3³You have witnessed what the Lord did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 25:1-9Ps 106:28-29Hos 9:10Josh 22:17Num 26:64Num 31:16

Deuteronomy 4:4⁴But you who remained faithful to the Lord your God are still alive to this very day, every one of you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:20John 6:67-69Josh 23:8Rev 14:4Rom 12:9Ps 143:6-11Ruth 1:14-17Acts 11:23Ezek 9:4Isa 26:20

Deuteronomy 4:5⁵Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in the land you are about to enter and possess.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 4:1-2Matt 28:20Deut 4:1Heb 3:5Prov 22:19-20Acts 20:271 Cor 15:31 Cor 11:28

Deuteronomy 4:6⁶So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise people.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 28:282 Tim 3:15Ps 111:101 Kgs 4:341 Kgs 10:6-9Jas 3:13Jer 8:9Prov 1:7Ps 19:7Deut 30:19-20

Deuteronomy 4:7⁷In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the Lord our God whenever we call on him?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 145:182 Sam 7:23Ps 34:18Jas 4:8Ps 73:28Isa 55:6Ps 46:1Ps 148:14Isa 43:4Deut 5:26

Deuteronomy 4:8⁸And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 147:19-20Rom 7:12-142 Tim 3:16-17Deut 10:12-13Ps 119:127-128Ps 119:86Ps 19:7-11Ps 119:96

Deuteronomy 4:9⁹Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 6:7Deut 11:19Ps 78:3-8Gen 18:19Deut 32:46Eph 6:4Deut 29:29Exod 13:8-9Prov 4:20-23Prov 4:1-13

Deuteronomy 4:10¹⁰You stood before the Lord your God at Horeb and he said to me, “Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 19:9Heb 12:18-19Deut 17:19Exod 19:16Deut 5:2Exod 20:18Exod 20:20Eccl 12:131 Sam 12:24Deut 14:23

Deuteronomy 4:11¹¹You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 5:23Exod 19:16-18Heb 12:18-19Exod 20:18-19

Deuteronomy 4:12¹²Then the Lord spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything—only a voice was heard.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:15Deut 5:22Deut 5:41 Kgs 19:12-132 Pet 1:17-18Deut 4:33Deut 4:36John 12:28-30Matt 3:17Col 1:15

Deuteronomy 4:13¹³And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the Ten Commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 34:28Exod 31:18Deut 9:9-11Exod 24:12Exod 19:5Deut 10:1-5Deut 5:1-21Exod 24:17-18Heb 9:19-202 Cor 3:7

Deuteronomy 4:14¹⁴Moreover, at that same time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land that you are about to enter and possess.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 21:1-23Ps 105:44-45

Deuteronomy 4:15¹⁵Be very careful, then, because you saw no form at the time the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:4-6Deut 4:12Isa 40:18Mal 2:151 Chr 28:9-10Deut 4:9Heb 1:3Jer 17:21Josh 23:11Prov 4:23

Deuteronomy 4:16¹⁶I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:29Deut 4:23Deut 5:8Exod 20:4-5Rom 1:22-24Exod 32:7Acts 20:4-5Deut 4:25Deut 4:8-9Isa 40:18

Deuteronomy 4:17¹⁷any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 1:23

Deuteronomy 4:18¹⁸anything that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the deep waters under the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Deuteronomy 4:19¹⁹When you look up to the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars—the whole heavenly creation —you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, for the Lord your God has assigned them to all the people of the world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 1:25Deut 17:32 Kgs 21:32 Kgs 17:16Gen 1:16-18Gen 2:1Josh 10:12-13Neh 9:6Ps 148:3-5Amos 5:25-26

Deuteronomy 4:20²⁰You, however, the Lord has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:51Jer 11:4Deut 32:9Deut 9:29Exod 19:5-61 Pet 2:9Isa 63:17-18Ps 135:4Titus 2:14Deut 9:26

Deuteronomy 4:21²¹But the Lord became angry with me because of you and vowed that I would never cross the Jordan nor enter the good land that he is about to give you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 1:37Num 20:12Ps 106:32-33Deut 3:26Deut 31:2

Deuteronomy 4:22²²So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that good land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 3:25Deut 3:272 Pet 1:13-15Heb 12:6-101 Kgs 13:21-22Amos 3:2

Deuteronomy 4:23²³Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he has forbidden you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:91 Chr 16:15Deut 29:25Deut 31:20Ezek 16:59Heb 3:12Isa 24:5Josh 23:16Matt 24:4Deut 27:9

Deuteronomy 4:24²⁴For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:29Deut 9:3Nah 1:6Exod 24:17Isa 33:141 Cor 10:22Deut 6:15Exod 34:14Zeph 3:8Exod 20:5

Deuteronomy 4:25²⁵After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:161 Cor 10:22Hos 9:92 Chr 36:12-162 Kgs 17:17-192 Kgs 21:14-162 Kgs 21:2Deut 31:16-18Deut 31:29Exod 32:7

Deuteronomy 4:26²⁶I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:1Mic 6:2Jer 22:29Deut 30:18-19Ezek 36:4Isa 1:2Jer 2:12Jer 44:22Josh 23:16Lev 18:28

Deuteronomy 4:27²⁷Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the Lord will drive you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:62-64Lev 26:33Ezek 12:15Ezek 32:26Neh 1:3Neh 1:8-9

Deuteronomy 4:28²⁸There you will worship gods made by human hands—wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:64Jer 16:13Deut 28:36Isa 46:7Ezek 20:391 Sam 26:19Isa 44:9Isa 45:20Ps 115:4-8Ps 135:15-18

Deuteronomy 4:29²⁹But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 119:2Jer 29:12-142 Chr 15:4Isa 55:6-7Ps 119:10Deut 30:10Jer 3:12-141 Kgs 8:47-48Deut 30:1-3Ps 119:145

Deuteronomy 4:30³⁰In your distress when all these things happen to you in future days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey himCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 2:12-13Hos 3:5Jer 23:20Deut 31:29Gen 49:1Isa 1:19Jer 7:23Num 24:201 Kgs 8:46-532 Chr 6:36-39

Deuteronomy 4:31³¹(for he is a merciful God), he will not let you down or destroy you, for he cannot forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 31:8Ps 116:5Neh 9:31Jonah 4:22 Chr 30:9Exod 34:6-7Lev 26:42Deut 31:6Ps 145:8-9Jer 14:21

Deuteronomy 4:32³²Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 8:8Deut 32:7Matt 24:31Ps 44:1Gen 1:27Joel 1:2Deut 30:4Mark 13:27

Deuteronomy 4:33³³Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 5:24Judg 6:22Exod 33:20Deut 5:26Exod 24:11Deut 4:24-26Deut 9:10Exod 19:18-19Exod 20:18-19Exod 20:22

Deuteronomy 4:34³⁴Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 26:8Deut 5:15Exod 6:6Deut 7:19Deut 7:8-9Jer 32:21Deut 6:21Exod 13:3Ps 78:48-53Exod 3:17-20

Deuteronomy 4:35³⁵You have been taught that the Lord alone is God—there is no other besides him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 45:181 Sam 2:2Isa 45:5Deut 4:39Isa 44:8Deut 32:39Isa 44:6Isa 45:22Ps 83:18Exod 15:11

Deuteronomy 4:36³⁶From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 19:19Exod 19:9Deut 4:33Neh 9:13Exod 20:18-22Heb 12:25Exod 24:16Heb 12:18

Deuteronomy 4:37³⁷Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great powerCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:15Exod 13:14Exod 13:3Exod 13:9Exod 33:14Isa 63:11-12Isa 63:92 Chr 16:9Deut 4:34Deut 7:7-9

Deuteronomy 4:38³⁸to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 7:1Deut 11:23Deut 2:31-3:16Deut 9:1-5Exod 23:27-28Ps 44:2-3Deut 8:18Josh 3:10

Deuteronomy 4:39³⁹Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below—there is no other!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 2:11Deut 4:351 Chr 29:11Hos 7:21 Chr 28:9Ps 135:62 Chr 20:6Deut 32:29Dan 4:35Ps 115:3

Deuteronomy 4:40⁴⁰Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 6:3Eph 6:3Deut 12:25Deut 12:28Deut 5:16Lev 22:31Deut 22:7Deut 6:18Deut 4:1Deut 4:6

Deuteronomy 4:41⁴¹Then Moses selected three cities in the Transjordan, toward the east.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 35:6Num 35:14-15Josh 20:2-9

Deuteronomy 4:42⁴²Anyone who accidentally killed someone without hating him at the time of the accident could flee to one of those cities and be safe.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 19:1-10Heb 6:18Num 35:11-12Num 35:15-28Num 35:6

Deuteronomy 4:43⁴³These cities are Bezer, in the wilderness plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassehites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 20:81 Chr 6:711 Chr 6:801 Kgs 22:3-41 Kgs 4:13Josh 21:27Josh 21:38

Deuteronomy 4:44⁴⁴This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 27:26Deut 1:5Deut 17:18-19Deut 27:3Deut 27:8Deut 33:4John 1:17Lev 27:34Mal 4:4Num 36:13

Deuteronomy 4:45⁴⁵These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 2:3Deut 4:1Deut 6:17Deut 6:20Ps 119:111Ps 119:14Ps 119:2Ps 119:22Ps 119:24Ps 119:5

Deuteronomy 4:46⁴⁶in the Transjordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. (It is he whom Moses and the Israelites attacked after they came out of Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 3:29Deut 1:4-5Deut 2:30-36Deut 3:8Deut 4:47Num 21:21-32Num 32:19

Deuteronomy 4:47⁴⁷They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan—both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 29:7-8Deut 3:1-14Num 21:33-35

Deuteronomy 4:48⁴⁸Their territory extended from Aroer at the edge of the Arnon valley as far as Mount Siyon —that is, Hermon—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 3:9Deut 2:36Deut 3:12Ps 133:3Josh 13:24-33

Deuteronomy 4:49⁴⁹including all the rift valley of the Transjordan in the east to the sea of the rift valley, beneath the slopes of Pisgah.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 3:17Deut 34:1Josh 13:20