4“Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances^k I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live,^l enter, and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors,^m is giving you. ²You must not add anything to what I command you or take anything away from it,ⁿ so that you may keep the commands of the Lord your God I am giving you. ³Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.^o ⁴But you who have remained faithful^B to the Lord your God are all alive today. ⁵Look, I have taught you statutes and ordinances as the Lord my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to possess. ⁶Carefully follow them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples. When they hear about all these statutes, they will say, ‘This great nation is indeed a wise and understanding people.’ ⁷For what great nation is there that has a god near to it as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to him?^p ⁸And what great nation has righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?^q

⁹“Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves,^r so that you don’t forget^s the things your eyes have seen and so that they don’t slip from your mind^C as long as you live. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.^t ¹⁰The day you stood before the Lord your God^u at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people before me, and I will let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me^a all the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.’ ¹¹You came near and stood at the base of the mountain,^b a mountain blazing with fire^c into the heavens and enveloped in a totally black cloud.^d ¹²Then the Lord spoke to you from the fire.^e You kept hearing the sound of the words, but didn’t see a form; there was only a voice.^f ¹³He declared his covenant^g to you. He commanded you to follow the Ten Commandments,^h which he wrote on two stone tablets.ⁱ ¹⁴At that time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to follow in the land you are about to cross into and possess.

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Deuteronomy 4:7: For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?

Footnotes

B have held on
COr don’t depart from your heart

Cross references

k Ex 15:25; Lv 26:46; Dt 5:1; 11:32; 12:1; 26:16–17; Jos 24:25; 1Sm 30:25; 1Kg 9:4; Ezr 7:10; Ps 81:4; 147:19; Ezk 11:12; 20:18,25; 36:27; Mal 4:4
l Lv 25:18; Dt 4:40; 5:16,33; 8:1; 11:9; 25:15; 30:16; 2Kg 18:32; Ezk 18:9; Am 5:14
m Ex 3:13,15–16; Dt 1:11,21; 6:3; 12:1; 27:3; Jos 18:3; 2Ch 13:12; 28:9; 29:5; Ezr 8:28; 10:11
n Dt 12:32; Pr 30:6; Mk 7:9–13; Rv 22:18–19
o Ps 106:28; Hs 9:10; 1Co 10:8
p 1Kg 8:52; Ps 4:3; Is 55:6; Jr 11:14; Hs 11:7; Rm 10:12,14
q Dt 11:26,32
r Jos 22:5; Pr 13:3; 16:17; 19:16; 22:5
s Dt 6:12; 8:11; Pr 3:1; 4:5
t Ex 12:26; Dt 6:7,20–25; 11:2–7,18–21; 31:12–13,19–22; 32:46; Jos 4:6,21–22; 8:35; Ps 34:11; 78:5
u Gn 18:22; 19:27; Lv 9:5; Dt 10:8; 1Sm 6:20; 1Kg 22:21; 2Ch 20:13
a Dt 5:29; Is 57:11; Jr 5:22; 32:39; Zph 3:7; Mal 3:5
b Ex 24:4; 32:19
c Ex 3:2; 19:18; Dt 5:23; 9:15; Heb 12:18
d Gn 15:12; Ex 20:21; Dt 5:22; 2Sm 22:10; 1Kg 8:12; 2Ch 6:1; Ps 18:9; 97:2; Is 60:2; Jr 13:16; Ezk 34:12; Jl 2:2; Zph 1:15
e Ex 3:2–4; Dt 4:33,36; 5:4,22–26; 9:10; 10:4; 33:16; Ezk 1:4; Ac 7:30,35
f Ex 19:10–19; Nm 12:8; Dt 5:8; Heb 12:18–19
g Ex 2:24; 19:5; Lv 26:9,15,42,44; Dt 7:12; 8:18; 17:2; 31:16,20; Jos 7:11; Jdg 2:1,20; 2Kg 17:15; 18:12; Ps 25:10,14; 78:37; 103:18; 105:8; 106:45; 111:5,9
h Ex 34:28; Dt 10:4
i Ex 34:1,4; Dt 5:22; 10:1,3