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works, and according to thy might?
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I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that
is
beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
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But the L
ORD
was wroth with me for your
sakes, and would not hear me: and the L
ORD
said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto
me of this matter.
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Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and
northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold
it
with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over
this Jordan.
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But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over
before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
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So we abode
in the valley over against Beth- peor.
CHAPTER 4
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for
to do
them,
that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the L
ORD
God of your fathers
giveth you.
2
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish
ought
from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the L
ORD
your God which I command you.
3
Your
eyes have seen what the L
ORD
did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor,
the L
ORD
thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
4
But ye that did cleave unto the L
ORD
your God
are
alive every one of you this day.
5
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments,
even as the L
ORD
my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess
it.
6
Keep therefore and do
them;
for this
is
your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the
nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation
is
a wise and
understanding people.
7
For what nation
is there so
great, who
hath
God
so
nigh unto them, as the
L
ORD
our God
is
in all
things that
we call upon him
for?
8
And what nation
is there so
great, that
hath statutes and judgments
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 have
seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy
sons’ sons;
10
Specially
the day that thou stoodest before the L
ORD
thy God in Horeb, when the
L
ORD
said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they
may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and
that
they may teach their
children.
11
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire
unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
12
And the L
ORD
spake unto
you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only
ye
heard
a voice.
13
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform,
even
ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
14
And the L
ORD
commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might
do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
15
Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves;
for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day
that
the L
ORD
spake unto you in Horeb out of the
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