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Deuteronomy 4
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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 LORD God of your fathers giveth you. |
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| 4:2
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 LORD your God which I command you.
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 (4:2) Don't add to or take away from Old
Testament laws.
"Ye shall not add unto the word
which I command you neither shall ye diminish ought from it." This verse is
one of those that prevents Bible-believers from cleaning up the Bible. So they're
stuck with the unedited version.
 (4:3)
God destroyed all the followers of Baalpeor.
(Numbers 25:1-9)
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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor:
for all the men
that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
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But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
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Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God
commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. |
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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. |
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For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the
LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? |
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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? |
 (4:8-9)
"What nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so
righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? ... teach them thy sons, and thy sons'
sons."
Are the laws of the Old Testament still binding?
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| 4:9
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;
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Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb,
when the LORD 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. |
"That they may learn to fear me all the days that they
shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children"
Should we fear God?
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| 4:11
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. |
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And the LORD 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. |
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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. |
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And the LORD 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. |
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Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of
similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst
of the fire: |
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Lest ye corrupt
yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the
likeness of male or female, |
(4:16-18, 23) In these verses, God condemns the making of
graven images. But in Ex.25:18 and Num.21:8 he commands others to make them.
Is it OK to make images?
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The likeness of any
beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in
the air,
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The likeness of any
thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the
waters beneath the earth: |
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| 4:19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun,
and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be
driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided
unto all nations under the whole heaven. |
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But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron
furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye
are this day. |
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Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I
should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance: |
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But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go
over, and possess that good land. |
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Take heed unto
yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he
made with you, and make
you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God
hath forbidden thee. |
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For the LORD thy God is
a consuming fire, even a jealous God. |
"For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God."
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When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have
remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and
make a graven
image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the
LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: |
(4:25-26)
"When thou ... make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing ... ye shall utterly be destroyed."
If someone makes an image of anything (like a bird or flower) then God will destroy the entire nation.
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I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that
ye shall
soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess
it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
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And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few
in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. |
"The LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few
in number among the heathen"
Will there be many Jews?
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And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone,
which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
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But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him,
if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. |
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| 4:30
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee,
even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be
obedient unto his voice; |
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(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee,
neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware
unto them. |
"For the Lord thy God is a merciful God."
Is God merciful?
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| 4:32
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the
day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven
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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Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the
fire, as thou hast heard, and live? |
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Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another
nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a
mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to
all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? |
"By war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors"
What the Bible says about terrorism
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Unto thee it was
shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none
else beside him. |
(4:35, 39)
How many gods are there?
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Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee:
and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words
out of the midst of the fire. |
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And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after
them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; |
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To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art,
to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this
day. |
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| 4:39
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven
above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. |
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| 4:40
Thou shalt keep therefore 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 earth, which the LORD
thy God giveth thee, for ever. |
According to this verse, the earth will last forever. But this is contradicted
elsewhere in the bible.
Will the earth last forever?
| 4:41
Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; |
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That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour
unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of
these cities he might live: |
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Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites;
and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the
Manassites. |
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And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: |
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These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which
Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt. |
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On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of
Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the
children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt: |
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And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings
of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; |
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From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion,
which is Hermon, |
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And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the
plain, under the springs of Pisgah. |
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