King James Version, Updated™

(1) Now therefore, O Israel, listen to the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach YOU, for to do them, that YOU may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of YOUR fathers gives YOU.

(2) YOU shall not add to the word which I command YOU, neither shall YOU take anything from it, that YOU may keep the commandments of the LORD YOUR God which I command YOU.

(3) YOUR eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed them from among YOU all the men that followed Baal-peor.

(4) But YOU who clung to the LORD YOUR God are alive every one of YOU this day.

(5) Behold, I have taught YOU statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that YOU should do so in the land wherever YOU go to possess it.

(6) Therefore keep and do them, for this is YOUR wisdom and YOUR understanding in the sight of the nations, who 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 has God so near to them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call on him for?

(8) And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before YOU this day?

(9) Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons;

(10) Especially the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, 'Gather the people together to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.'

(11) Then YOU came near and stood at the bottom of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

(12) And the LORD spoke to YOU out of the midst of the fire. YOU heard the voice of the words, but saw no likeness; YOU only heard a voice.

(13) Then he declared to YOU his covenant, which he commanded YOU to perform, the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.

(14) The LORD commanded me at that time to teach YOU statutes and judgments, that YOU might do them in the land where YOU are going over to possess it.

(15) Therefore, YOU take much heed to yourselves, for YOU saw no manner of likeness on the day that the LORD spoke to YOU in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

(16) lest YOU corrupt yourselves, and make yourselves a graven image, the likeness of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

(17) the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,

(18) the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth.

(19) Beware, lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, moon, and stars, all the host of heaven, you are drawn away to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all nations under the whole heaven.

20 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.

21 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:

22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

23 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.

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

25 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:

26 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.

27 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.

28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

29 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.

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;

31 (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.

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?

33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

34 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?

35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.

36 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.

37 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;

38 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.

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.

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.

41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

42 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:

43 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.

44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

45 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,

46 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:

47 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;

48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,

49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.