1Hear 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.

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Romans 10:5, Romans 10:5, Deuteronomy 8:1, Deuteronomy 8:1, Ezekiel 20:11

2You 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.

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Deuteronomy 12:32, Deuteronomy 12:32, Proverbs 30:6, Proverbs 30:6, Revelation 22:18

3Your 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.

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Numbers 25:1, Numbers 25:9, Numbers 25:1, Numbers 25:9, Psalms 106:28

4But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.

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Deuteronomy 10:20, John 6:67, John 6:69, Deuteronomy 10:20, John 6:67

5See, 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.

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1 Thessalonians 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:2, Matthew 28:20, 1 Thessalonians 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:2

6Observe 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.”

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Job 28:28, Job 28:28, Psalms 111:10, Psalms 111:10, 2 Timothy 3:15

7For 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?

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Psalms 145:18, Psalms 145:18, Psalms 34:18, Psalms 34:18, Psalms 73:28

8And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

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Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:20, Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:20, Romans 7:12

9Only 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.

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Deuteronomy 6:7, Deuteronomy 6:7, Deuteronomy 11:19, Deuteronomy 11:19, Psalms 78:3

10The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the 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.”

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Exodus 19:9, Exodus 19:9, Deuteronomy 17:19, Hebrews 12:18, Hebrews 12:19

11You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

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Deuteronomy 5:23, Deuteronomy 5:23, Exodus 19:16, Exodus 19:18, Hebrews 12:18

12And 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.

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Deuteronomy 5:4, Deuteronomy 5:22, Deuteronomy 4:15, Deuteronomy 5:4, Deuteronomy 5:22

13He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

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Exodus 34:28, Exodus 34:28, Exodus 24:12, Exodus 31:18, Exodus 24:12

14At 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 Jordan to possess.

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Psalms 105:44, Psalms 105:45, Ezekiel 21:1, Ezekiel 21:23, Psalms 105:44

15So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful

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Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah 40:18, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 1 Chronicles 28:10, Deuteronomy 4:12

16that 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,

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Acts 17:29, Acts 17:29, Romans 1:22, Romans 1:24, Deuteronomy 4:23

17of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,

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Romans 1:23, Romans 1:23

18or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.

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19When 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.

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Romans 1:25, Romans 1:25, Deuteronomy 17:3, Deuteronomy 17:3, 2 Kings 21:3

20Yet 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.

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1 Kings 8:51, 1 Kings 8:51, Jeremiah 11:4, Jeremiah 11:4, Deuteronomy 9:29

21The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Deuteronomy 1:37, Numbers 20:12, Deuteronomy 1:37, Numbers 20:12, Psalms 106:32

22For 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.

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Deuteronomy 3:25, Deuteronomy 3:25, Deuteronomy 3:27, Deuteronomy 3:27, Hebrews 12:6

23Be 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.

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Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 4:9, Matthew 24:4, Deuteronomy 29:25, Ezekiel 16:59

24For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

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Hebrews 12:29, Hebrews 12:29, Nahum 1:6, Nahum 1:6, Deuteronomy 9:3

25After 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—

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Deuteronomy 4:16, Deuteronomy 4:16, Hosea 9:9, 1 Corinthians 10:22, Hosea 9:9

26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

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Deuteronomy 32:1, Deuteronomy 32:1, Micah 6:2, Micah 6:2, Jeremiah 2:12

27Then 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.

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Deuteronomy 28:62, Deuteronomy 28:64, Deuteronomy 28:62, Deuteronomy 28:64, Leviticus 26:33

28And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

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Deuteronomy 28:64, Deuteronomy 28:64, Jeremiah 16:13, Jeremiah 16:13, Deuteronomy 28:36

29But 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.

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Psalms 119:2, Jeremiah 29:12, Jeremiah 29:14, Psalms 119:2, Jeremiah 29:12

30When 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.

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Joel 2:12, Joel 2:13, Joel 2:12, Joel 2:13, Jeremiah 23:20

31For 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.

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Psalms 116:5, Deuteronomy 31:8, Psalms 116:5, Deuteronomy 31:8, Jonah 4:2

32Indeed, 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?

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Job 8:8, Job 8:8, Deuteronomy 32:7, Psalms 44:1, Matthew 24:31

33Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

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Deuteronomy 5:24, Judges 6:22, Deuteronomy 5:24, Judges 6:22, Exodus 33:20

34Or 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?

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Deuteronomy 26:8, Deuteronomy 26:8, Deuteronomy 5:15, Deuteronomy 5:15, Exodus 6:6

35You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

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Isaiah 45:18, Isaiah 45:18, 1 Samuel 2:2, 1 Samuel 2:2, Isaiah 45:5

36He 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.

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Exodus 19:19, Exodus 19:9, Exodus 19:19, Exodus 19:9, Nehemiah 9:13

37Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

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Deuteronomy 10:15, Deuteronomy 10:15, Exodus 33:14, Isaiah 63:11, Isaiah 63:12

38to 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.

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Deuteronomy 7:1, Deuteronomy 7:1, Exodus 23:27, Exodus 23:28, Deuteronomy 2:31

39Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

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Joshua 2:11, Joshua 2:11, Deuteronomy 4:35, Deuteronomy 4:35, 2 Chronicles 20:6

40Keep 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.

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Deuteronomy 6:3, Deuteronomy 6:3, Ephesians 6:3, Ephesians 6:3, Leviticus 22:31

41Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east

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Numbers 35:6, Numbers 35:6, Numbers 35:14, Numbers 35:15, Numbers 35:14

42to 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:

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Numbers 35:15, Numbers 35:28, Numbers 35:11, Numbers 35:12, Hebrews 6:18

43Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, or Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.

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Joshua 20:8, Joshua 20:8, Joshua 21:27, Joshua 21:38, 1 Chronicles 6:71

44This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.

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Deuteronomy 27:26, Deuteronomy 27:3, Deuteronomy 1:5, Leviticus 27:34, Malachi 4:4

45These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,

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Psalms 119:7, Psalms 119:24, Psalms 119:14, Deuteronomy 4:1, Psalms 119:2

46while they were in the valley across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.

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Deuteronomy 3:29, Deuteronomy 3:29, Deuteronomy 1:4, Deuteronomy 1:5, Numbers 32:19

47They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan to the east—

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Deuteronomy 29:7, Deuteronomy 29:8, Numbers 21:33, Numbers 21:35, Deuteronomy 3:1

48extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),

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Deuteronomy 3:9, Deuteronomy 3:9, Deuteronomy 2:36, Deuteronomy 2:36, Psalms 133:3

49including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

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Deuteronomy 3:17, Deuteronomy 3:17, Deuteronomy 34:1, Joshua 13:20, Deuteronomy 34:1