DEḆARIM / Deuteronomy 4 - I Read My Scriptures! ❤️ 📖

DEḆARIM 4 (Deuteronomy 4)

1 “And now, O Yisra’ĕl, listen to the Laws and the Right-Rulings which I am teaching you to do, so that you live, and shall go in and possess the land which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Elohim of your fathers is giving you.

2 “Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it, so as to guard the Commands of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim which I am commanding you.

3 “Your eyes have seen what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 did at Ba’al Pe’or, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim has destroyed from your midst all the men who followed Ba’al Pe’or.

4 “But you who are clinging to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim are alive today, every one of you.

5 “See, I have taught you Laws and Right-Rulings, as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 my Elohim commanded me, to do thus in the land which you go to possess.

6 “And you shall guard and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these Laws, and they shall say, ‘Only a wise and understanding people is this great nation!’

7 “For what great nation is there which has Elohim so near to it, as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 our Elohim is to us, whenever we call on Him?

8 “And what great nation is there that has such Laws and righteous Right-Rulings like all this Torah which I put before you this day?

9 “Only, guard yourself, and guard your ḥai diligently, lest you forget the Words your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all the days of your life. And you shall make them known to your children and your grandchildren.

10 “The day when you stood before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim in Ḥorĕḇ, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me and I make them hear My Words, so that they learn to revere Me all the days they live on the earth and teach their children.’

11 “And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the shamayim – darkness and cloud, dense cloud.

12 “And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard a voice of words, but saw no form, you only heard a voice.

13 “And He made known to you His Covenant which He commanded you to do, the Ten Words, and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

14 “And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 commanded me at that time to teach you Laws and Right-Rulings, for you to do them in the land which you pass over to possess.

15 “Therefore, diligently guard yourselves, for you saw no form when 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 spoke to you at Ḥorĕḇ out of the midst of the fire,

16 lest you should do corruptly and shall make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure – the likeness of male or female,

17 the likeness of any beast that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the shamayim,

18 the likeness of any creature that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;

19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the shamayim, and shall see the sun, and the moon, and the stars – all the host of the shamayim – and you be drawn away into bowing down to them and serving them, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim has allotted to all the peoples under all the shamayim.

20 “But 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Mitsrayim, to be His people, an inheritance, as it is today.

21 “And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 was enraged with me because of your words, and swore that I would not pass over the Yardĕn, and that I would not enter the good land which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.

22 “For I am to die in this land, I am not passing over the Yardĕn, but you are passing over, and shall possess that good land.

23 “Guard yourselves, lest you forget the Covenant of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim which He made with you, and shall make for yourselves a carved image in any likeness 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim has commanded you.

24 “For your 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Elohim is a consuming fire, a jealous Ĕl.

25 “When you bring forth children and grandchildren, and shall grow old in the land, and shall do corruptly and make a carved image in any likeness, and shall do what is evil in the eyes of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim to provoke Him,

26 “I shall call the shamayim and earth to witness against you on that day, that you soon completely perish from the land which you pass over the Yardĕn to possess – you do not prolong your days in it but are completely destroyed.

27 “And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the gentiles where 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 drives you.

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

29 “But from there you shall seek 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim, and shall find, when you search for Him with all your heart and with all your being.

30 “In your distress, when all these words shall come upon you in the latter days, then you shall return to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim and shall obey His voice.

31 “For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim is a compassionate Ĕl, He does not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the Covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.