1 Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2 You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.
3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor. 4 But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.
5 See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess. 6 Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."
7 For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him? 8 And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
9 Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren. 10 The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb,4:10 That is, Mount Sinai, or possibly a mountain in the range containing Mount Sinai; also in verse 15the LORD said to me, "Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children."
11 You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness. 12 And the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of the words but saw no form; there was only a voice. 13 He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow — the Ten Commandments4:13 Hebrew the Ten Wordsthat He wrote on two tablets of stone.
14 At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordanto possess.
A Warning against Idolatry
15 So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful 16 that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female, 17 of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air, 18 or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
19 When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars— all the host of heaven— do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven. 20 Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
21 The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordanto enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. 22 For I will not be crossing the Jordan, because I must die in this land. But you shall cross over and take possession of that good land.
23 Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you. 24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire,4:24 Cited in Hebrews 12:29a jealous God.
25 After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form— doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger— 26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordanto possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
27 Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you. 28 And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
29 But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice. 31 For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.
The LORD Alone Is God
32 Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported? 33 Has a people ever heard the voice of God4:33 Or of a godspeaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived? 34 Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation — by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors — as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
35 You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.
36 He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire. 37 Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egyptby His presence and great power, 38 to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
39 Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other. 40 Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
Cities of Refuge
41 Then Mosesset aside three cities across the Jordanto the east 42 to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice.
To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities: 43 Bezerin the wilderness on the plateau belonging to the Reubenites, Ramothin Gileadbelonging to the Gadites, or Golanin Bashanbelonging to the Manassites.
Introduction to the Law
44 This is the law that Mosesset before the Israelites. 45 These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Mosesproclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt, 46 while they were in the valley across the Jordanfacing Beth-peorin the land of Sihonking of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbonand was defeated by Mosesand the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.
47 They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Ogking of Bashan— the two Amorite kings across the Jordanto the east — 48 extending from Aroeron the rim of the ArnonValley as far as Mount Siyon4:48 Or Sion; Syriac Sirion(that is, Hermon), 49 including all the Arabahon the east side of the Jordanand as far as the Sea of the Arabah,4:49 That is, the Dead Seabelow the slopes of Pisgah.
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פְּעוֹרpeor
Peor is a mountain to whose top Balak took Balaam and which overlooks the wasteland of Jeshimon (Numbers 23:28).
Mount Horeb is the mountain of God, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt and where Moses placed the two tablets (2 Chronicles 5:10).
The Jordan is the river in the middle of which Joshua set up twelve stones, where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood. The boundary of the land went down along the river to the Salt Sea (Joshua 4:9).
Mount Horeb is the mountain of God, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt and where Moses placed the two tablets (2 Chronicles 5:10).
Egypt is the land where Abram went down because of famine and where Jacob and his sons went. Because Pharaoh refused to let Israel go, the Lord killed all the firstborn there (Exodus 13:15).
The Jordan is the river in the middle of which Joshua set up twelve stones, where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood. The boundary of the land went down along the river to the Salt Sea (Joshua 4:9).
The Jordan is the river in the middle of which Joshua set up twelve stones, where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood. The boundary of the land went down along the river to the Salt Sea (Joshua 4:9).
The Jordan is the river in the middle of which Joshua set up twelve stones, where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood. The boundary of the land went down along the river to the Salt Sea (Joshua 4:9).
Egypt is the land where Abram went down because of famine and where Jacob and his sons went. Because Pharaoh refused to let Israel go, the Lord killed all the firstborn there (Exodus 13:15).
Egypt is the land where Abram went down because of famine and where Jacob and his sons went. Because Pharaoh refused to let Israel go, the Lord killed all the firstborn there (Exodus 13:15).
Moses, a Levite raised by Pharaoh’s daughter, was called by God at the burning bush, brought Israel out of slavery in Egypt, and received the law on Mount Sinai (Exodus 3:4).
The Jordan is the river in the middle of which Joshua set up twelve stones, where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood. The boundary of the land went down along the river to the Salt Sea (Joshua 4:9).
Ramoth was a city in Gilead, for the Gadites, and one of three Moses set aside east of the Jordan for anyone who killed someone unintentionally; the others were Bezer and Golan (Deuteronomy 4:43).
Gilead is the land Moses gave to Machir of Manasseh and where Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had their own land. Jair, who led Israel, and Elijah came from there (Numbers 32:40).
Golan was a city of refuge in Bashan, in the tribe of Manasseh, east of the Jordan, where anyone who killed a person unintentionally could flee; it was given to the Gershonite Levites (Joshua 21:27).
Bashan is the land of the kingdom of Og, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and was defeated by Moses. It was allotted to the tribe of Manasseh, and in it was Golan, a city of refuge (Joshua 13:12).
Moses, a Levite raised by Pharaoh’s daughter, was called by God at the burning bush, brought Israel out of slavery in Egypt, and received the law on Mount Sinai (Exodus 3:4).
Moses, a Levite raised by Pharaoh’s daughter, was called by God at the burning bush, brought Israel out of slavery in Egypt, and received the law on Mount Sinai (Exodus 3:4).
Egypt is the land where Abram went down because of famine and where Jacob and his sons went. Because Pharaoh refused to let Israel go, the Lord killed all the firstborn there (Exodus 13:15).
The Jordan is the river in the middle of which Joshua set up twelve stones, where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood. The boundary of the land went down along the river to the Salt Sea (Joshua 4:9).
Moses, a Levite raised by Pharaoh’s daughter, was called by God at the burning bush, brought Israel out of slavery in Egypt, and received the law on Mount Sinai (Exodus 3:4).
Egypt is the land where Abram went down because of famine and where Jacob and his sons went. Because Pharaoh refused to let Israel go, the Lord killed all the firstborn there (Exodus 13:15).
Bashan is the land of the kingdom of Og, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and was defeated by Moses. It was allotted to the tribe of Manasseh, and in it was Golan, a city of refuge (Joshua 13:12).
The Jordan is the river in the middle of which Joshua set up twelve stones, where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood. The boundary of the land went down along the river to the Salt Sea (Joshua 4:9).
Aroer was a city by the Arnon River, where the territory given to the tribes of Reuben and Gad began, extending to half the hill country of Gilead, with its towns (Deuteronomy 3:12).
The Valley of the Arnon is the valley whose middle was the border of the region Israel took from the Amorites and gave to the tribes of Reuben and Gad; Aroer stood on its rim (Deuteronomy 3:16).
Mount Hermon is the mountain to which the territory east of the Jordan that Israel took from two kings of the Amorites stretched from the Arnon (Deuteronomy 3:8).
The Arabah is the region east of the Jordan, in the wilderness, where Moses spoke to all Israel, opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab (Deuteronomy 1:1).
The Jordan is the river in the middle of which Joshua set up twelve stones, where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood. The boundary of the land went down along the river to the Salt Sea (Joshua 4:9).
The Salt Sea is the Sea of the Arabah, into which the Jordan flows; when the people crossed the river opposite Jericho, the waters flowing down to the sea were completely cut off (Joshua 3:16).
31,50° N, 35,50° L
Citado em 21 versículosTb.: Dead Sea, Sea of the Arabah
Pisgah is the mountain across from Jericho, which Moses climbed from the plains of Moab and from whose top the Lord showed him the whole land, from Gilead to Dan (Deuteronomy 34:1).