These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Deuteronomy 4
Tanakh 49 verses
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And now, O , hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which , the of your fathers, giveth you.
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Romans 10:5 Deuteronomy 8:1 Ezekiel 20:11 Leviticus 18:5 Deuteronomy 4:8 Psalm 105:45 Matthew 28:20 Deuteronomy 30:19 Deuteronomy 4:45 John 15:14 Leviticus 20:8 Ezekiel 36:27 Leviticus 19:37 Ezekiel 37:24 Psalm 119:4 Deuteronomy 30:16 Deuteronomy 16:20 Deuteronomy 5:33 Deuteronomy 11:1 Leviticus 22:31 Deuteronomy 11:32 Luke 1:6 Ezekiel 11:20 Ezekiel 20:21 Deuteronomy 5:1 - 2 Ye shall not add unto the which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of your which I command you.
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Your eyes have seen what did in Baal-peor; for all the men that followed the Baal of Peor, thy hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.
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- 4 But ye that did cleave unto your are alive every one of you this day.
- 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as my commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land whither ye go in to possess it.
- 6 Observe therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that, when they all these statutes, shall say: ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
- 7 For what great nation is there, that hath so nigh unto them, as our is whensoever we call upon Him?
- 8 And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this , which I set before you this day?
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Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children’s children;
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Deuteronomy 6:7 Deuteronomy 11:19 Genesis 18:19 Deuteronomy 32:46 Ephesians 6:4 Psalm 78:3-8 Proverbs 4:20-23 Deuteronomy 29:29 Proverbs 4:1-13 Proverbs 23:26 Revelation 3:3 Exodus 13:8-9 Psalm 119:11 Joshua 4:21 Proverbs 3:1-3 Exodus 13:14-16 Psalm 71:18 Proverbs 3:21 Hebrews 2:1 Joshua 4:6-7 Psalm 34:11-16 Proverbs 1:8 Deuteronomy 31:19 Proverbs 7:1 Deuteronomy 4:23 Deuteronomy 4:15 Luke 8:18 Joshua 1:18 James 2:22 Isaiah 38:19 Hebrews 2:3 - 10 the day that thou stoodest before thy in , when said unto me: ‘Assemble Me the people, and I will make them My words that they may learn to Me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.’
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And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the of , with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
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- 12 And spoke unto 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 unto you His , which He commanded you to perform, even the ten words; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone.
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And commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
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- 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves—for ye saw no manner of form on the day that spoke unto you in out of the midst of the fire—
- 16 lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
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the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the ,
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- 18 the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
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and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto , and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of , thou be drawn away and them, and them, which thy hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole .
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2 Kings 17:16 Deuteronomy 17:3 2 Kings 21:3 Genesis 2:1 Romans 1:25 Psalm 136:7-9 Jeremiah 33:25 Job 31:26-28 2 Kings 23:4-5 Genesis 1:16-18 Matthew 5:45 Psalm 74:16-17 Amos 5:25-26 Jeremiah 8:2 2 Kings 23:11 Jeremiah 31:35 Acts 7:42 Jeremiah 19:13 Ezekiel 8:16 Joshua 10:12-13 Psalm 148:3-5 Nehemiah 9:6 Zephaniah 1:5 - 20 But you hath taken and brought forth out of the iron furnace, out of , to be unto Him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
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Now was angered with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the , and that I should not go in unto that good land, which thy giveth thee for an inheritance;
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but I must die in this land, I must not go over the ; but ye are to go over, and possess that good land.
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- 23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the of your , which He made with you, and make you a graven image, even the likeness of any thing which thy hath forbidden thee.
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For thy is a devouring fire, a jealous .
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Hebrews 12:29 Exodus 24:17 Deuteronomy 9:3 Deuteronomy 6:15 Exodus 20:5 Isaiah 42:8 Zephaniah 1:18 Nahum 1:6 Deuteronomy 29:20 Isaiah 33:14 Exodus 34:14 Nahum 1:2 Isaiah 30:27 Deuteronomy 5:9 Jeremiah 21:12-14 Psalm 78:58 Isaiah 30:33 Zephaniah 3:8 Deuteronomy 32:16 Deuteronomy 32:21-22 Psalm 21:9 1 Corinthians 10:22 - 25 When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall deal corruptly, and make a graven image, even the form of any thing, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of thy , to provoke Him;
- 26 I call and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
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And shall scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither shall lead you away.
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- 28 And there ye shall Elohims, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor , nor eat, nor smell.
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But from thence ye will seek thy ; and thou shalt find Him, if thou search after Him with all thy and with all thy .
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2 Chronicles 15:4 Isaiah 55:6-7 Jeremiah 29:12-14 Psalm 119:2 Psalm 119:10 Deuteronomy 30:10 Jeremiah 3:12-14 Jeremiah 3:10 1 Kings 8:47-48 Deuteronomy 30:1-3 Leviticus 26:39-42 2 Kings 10:31 2 Chronicles 15:12 2 Chronicles 15:15 Psalm 119:145 Nehemiah 1:9 2 Kings 23:3 Joel 2:12 Psalm 119:58 2 Chronicles 31:21 -
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In thy distress, when all these things are come upon thee, in the end of days, thou wilt return to thy , and hearken unto His voice;
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Jeremiah 23:20 Hosea 3:5 Deuteronomy 31:29 Joel 2:12-13 Hebrews 1:2 Numbers 24:20 Genesis 49:1 1 Kings 8:46-53 Daniel 9:11-19 Hosea 14:2-3 Daniel 10:14 Exodus 18:8 Jeremiah 7:23 Acts 3:19 Lamentations 3:40 Isaiah 1:19 Zechariah 6:15 2 Chronicles 6:36-39 Hebrews 5:9 Acts 26:20 Deuteronomy 31:17 Deuteronomy 30:10 -
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for thy is a merciful ; He will not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the of thy fathers which He swore unto them.
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For ask now of the days past, which were before thee, since the day that created man upon the earth, and from the one end of unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
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- 33 Did ever a people the voice of speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
- 34 Or hath assayed to go and take Him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that your did for you in before thine eyes?
- 35 Unto thee it was shown, that thou mightiest that , He is ; there is none else beside Him.
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Out of He made thee to His voice, that He might instruct thee; and upon earth He made thee to see His great fire; and thou didst His words out of the midst of the fire.
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And because He loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with His presence, with His great power, out of ,
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Deuteronomy 10:15 Exodus 13:9 Exodus 13:14 Exodus 13:3 Deuteronomy 9:5 Romans 9:5 Psalm 32:8 Jeremiah 31:1 Isaiah 51:9-11 Deuteronomy 7:7-9 Isaiah 41:8-9 Psalm 105:6-10 Psalm 34:15 Psalm 136:10-15 Luke 1:72-73 2 Chronicles 16:9 Psalm 114:1-6 Deuteronomy 4:34 Malachi 1:2 Exodus 33:14 Isaiah 63:9 Isaiah 63:11-12 - 38 to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day;
- 39 this day, and lay it to thy , that , He is in above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else.
- 40 And thou shalt keep His statutes, and His commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the land, which thy giveth thee, for ever.
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Then separated three cities beyond the toward the sunrising;
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that the manslayer might flee thither, that slayeth his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
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Bezer in the wilderness, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in , for the Gadites; and Golan in , for the Manassites.
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- 44 And this is the which set before the children of ;
- 45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which spoke unto the children of , when they came forth out of ;
- 46 beyond the , in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom and the children of smote, when they came forth out of ;
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and they took his land in possession, and the land of Og of , the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the toward the sunrising;
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from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, even unto mount Sion—the same is Hermon—
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and all the Arabah beyond the eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
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