Deuteronomy · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Deuteronomy 4 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Ahora escucha, Israel, las leyes y las decisiones que les estoy enseñando. Cúmplanlas para que vivan y entren a tomar posesión de la tierra que el Señor, el Dios de sus padres, les está dando.
1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them, that you may live and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
2 No añadan nada a las órdenes que les doy ni quiten nada de ellas. Cumplan las órdenes del Señor su Dios que les doy.
2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
3 Sus ojos han visto lo que hizo el Señor a causa de Baal-peor: el Señor destruyó de entre ustedes a todos los que siguieron a Baal-peor.
3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.
4 Pero todos ustedes que permanecieron fieles al Señor su Dios siguen vivos hoy.
4 But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.
5 Les he enseñado leyes y decisiones, como el Señor mi Dios me ordenó, para que las cumplan en la tierra que van a recibir como herencia.
5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
6 Así que guarden estas leyes y cúmplanlas, porque así los pueblos verán su sabiduría y entendimiento. Cuando oigan todas estas leyes, dirán: «Verdaderamente, esta gran nación es un pueblo sabio y entendido».
6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
7 Porque ¿qué gran nación tiene un dios tan cerca de ella como está el Señor nuestro Dios cada vez que nos volvemos a él en oración?
7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
8 ¿Y qué gran nación tiene leyes y decisiones tan justas como todas estas leyes que les presento hoy?
8 What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?
9 Solo tengan mucho cuidado. No permitan que las cosas que sus ojos han visto salgan de su memoria ni de su corazón durante toda su vida. Enséñenlas a sus hijos y a sus nietos.
9 Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
10 Recuerden el día en que estuvieron delante del Señor su Dios en Horeb, cuando el Señor me dijo: «Reúne al pueblo delante de mí para que escuche mis palabras, aprenda a temerme todos los días de su vida en la tierra y enseñe lo mismo a sus hijos».
10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people 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 Ustedes se acercaron y se quedaron al pie del monte. El monte ardía en fuego hasta lo alto del cielo, rodeado de oscuridad y densas nubes.
11 You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
12 Entonces la voz del Señor vino a ustedes desde el fuego. Oyeron el sonido de sus palabras, pero no vieron ninguna figura. Solo oyeron una voz.
12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.
13 Él les dio su pacto, los Diez Mandamientos que les ordenó cumplir, y los escribió en dos tablas de piedra.
13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
14 En ese tiempo el Señor me ordenó enseñarles estas leyes y decisiones para que las cumplieran en la tierra que van a recibir como herencia.
14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
15 Así que tengan mucho cuidado, porque no vieron ninguna figura el día en que el Señor les habló desde el fuego en Horeb.
15 Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
16 No se corrompan haciendo una imagen con la figura de un hombre o una mujer,
16 lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 de algún animal de la tierra o de un ave que vuela por el cielo,
17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
18 de algún animal que se arrastra por la tierra o de algún pez que vive en las aguas.
18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
19 Cuando alcen los ojos al cielo y vean el sol, la luna y las estrellas, todo el ejército del cielo, no se dejen llevar a adorarlos ni a servirles. El Señor su Dios los ha dado a todos los pueblos bajo el cielo.
19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
20 Pero a ustedes el Señor los sacó de Egipto, de aquel horno de hierro, para que fueran el pueblo de su herencia, como lo son hoy.
20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
21 El Señor se enojó conmigo por causa de ustedes y juró que yo no cruzaría el Jordán ni entraría en la buena tierra que el Señor su Dios les está dando como herencia.
21 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;
22 Yo moriré en esta tierra y no cruzaré el Jordán, pero ustedes sí cruzarán y tomarán posesión de esa buena tierra.
22 but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you shall go over and possess that good land.
23 Tengan cuidado de no olvidar el pacto que el Señor su Dios hizo con ustedes. No hagan ninguna imagen, porque el Señor su Dios les ha ordenado que no lo hagan.
23 Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
24 Porque el Señor su Dios es un fuego consumidor, un Dios celoso que no permite que el honor que le pertenece sea dado a otro.
24 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
25 Cuando hayan tenido hijos y nietos y hayan vivido mucho tiempo en la tierra, si se corrompen y hacen alguna imagen, haciendo el mal ante los ojos del Señor su Dios y provocando su ira,
25 When you father children and children’s children, and you have been long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,
26 hoy pongo al cielo y a la tierra como testigos contra ustedes: pronto serán destruidos y desaparecerán de la tierra que van a poseer al otro lado del Jordán. No vivirán mucho tiempo allí, sino que serán destruidos por completo.
26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
27 El Señor los dispersará entre los pueblos, y solo unos pocos de ustedes quedarán vivos entre las naciones a donde el Señor los llevará.
27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.
28 Allí servirán a dioses hechos por manos humanas, de madera y piedra, que no pueden ver, oír, comer ni oler.
28 There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 Pero si desde allí buscan al Señor su Dios, lo encontrarán si lo buscan con todo su corazón y con toda su alma.
29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 Cuando estén en problemas y todas estas cosas les hayan sucedido, al final volverán al Señor su Dios y escucharán su voz.
30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
31 Porque el Señor su Dios es un Dios de misericordia. No los abandonará ni dejará que sean destruidos, ni olvidará el pacto que hizo mediante un juramento con sus padres.
31 For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
32 Piensen ahora en los días pasados, desde el día en que Dios creó al ser humano sobre la tierra. Busquen desde un extremo del cielo hasta el otro y vean si alguna vez ha sucedido algo tan grande como esto, o si se ha oído hablar de algo semejante.
32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?
33 ¿Ha seguido viviendo algún pueblo después de oír la voz de Dios desde el fuego, como ustedes la oyeron?
33 Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
34 ¿Ha tomado Dios alguna vez una nación para sí de en medio de otra nación, mediante pruebas, señales y maravillas, mediante la guerra, con mano poderosa y brazo extendido, y con grandes hechos que producen temor, como hizo por ustedes el Señor su Dios en Egipto ante sus propios ojos?
34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 Todo esto se les permitió ver para que supieran que el Señor es Dios y que no hay otro.
35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
36 Desde el cielo les hizo oír su voz para enseñarles, y en la tierra les mostró su gran fuego. Ustedes oyeron sus palabras desde el fuego.
36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.
37 Debido a su amor por sus padres, escogió a sus descendientes y él mismo los sacó de Egipto con su gran poder.
37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
38 Expulsó delante de ustedes naciones más grandes y fuertes, para llevarlos a su tierra y dársela como herencia, como sucede hoy.
38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
39 Así que reconozcan hoy y guarden en su corazón que el Señor es Dios arriba en el cielo y aquí abajo en la tierra. No hay otro.
39 Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
40 Guarden sus leyes y las órdenes que les doy hoy, para que les vaya bien a ustedes y a sus hijos después de ustedes, y para que vivan muchos años en la tierra que el Señor su Dios les está dando.
40 You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
41 Entonces Moisés separó tres ciudades al otro lado del Jordán, hacia el este,
41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,
42 para que cualquiera que causara por accidente la muerte de su prójimo, sin haberlo odiado antes, pudiera huir a una de estas ciudades y salvar su vida.
42 that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
43 Las ciudades eran Beser, en el desierto de la meseta, para los rubenitas; Ramot, en Galaad, para los gaditas; y Golán, en Basán, para los de Manasés.
43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
44 Esta es la ley que Moisés puso delante de los hijos de Israel.
44 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
45 Estas son las órdenes, las leyes y las decisiones que Moisés dio a los hijos de Israel después de que salieron de Egipto,
45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
46 al otro lado del Jordán, en el valle frente a Bet-peor, en la tierra de Sehón, rey de los amorreos que gobernaba en Hesbón. Moisés y los hijos de Israel habían vencido a Sehón después de salir de Egipto.
46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.
47 Recibieron su tierra como herencia, y también la tierra de Og, rey de Basán. Estos eran los dos reyes amorreos cuyas tierras estaban al este del Jordán.
47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
48 Su territorio se extendía desde Aroer, al borde del valle del Arnón, hasta el monte Sión, es decir, Hermón,
48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Siyon (also called Hermon),
49 e incluía todo el Arabá al este del Jordán, hasta el mar del Arabá, al pie de las laderas del Pisgá.
49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
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Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (48)
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- 1 Romans 10:5; Ezekiel 20:11; Deuteronomy 8:1; Leviticus 18:5; Deuteronomy 5:1
- 2 Proverbs 30:6; Deuteronomy 12:32; Revelation 22:18–19; Joshua 1:7; Matthew 5:18
- 3 Numbers 25:1–9; Psalm 106:28–29; Hosea 9:10; Numbers 26:64; Numbers 31:16
- 4 Deuteronomy 10:20; Joshua 23:8; John 6:67–69; Romans 12:9; Revelation 14:4
- 5 Matthew 28:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:1–2; Hebrews 3:5; Deuteronomy 4:1; Proverbs 22:19–20
- 6 Psalm 111:10; Job 28:28; 2 Timothy 3:15; Proverbs 1:7; 1 Kings 10:6–9
- 7 Psalm 145:18; 2 Samuel 7:23; Psalm 34:18; Psalm 73:28; James 4:8
- 8 Psalm 147:19–20; Romans 7:12–14; Psalm 119:127–128; Psalm 119:86; Psalm 19:7–11
- 9 Deuteronomy 6:7; Deuteronomy 11:19; Psalm 78:3–8; Genesis 18:19; Deuteronomy 32:46
- 10 Exodus 19:9; Hebrews 12:18–19; Exodus 19:16; Deuteronomy 17:19; Exodus 20:20
- 11 Deuteronomy 5:23; Exodus 19:16–18; Hebrews 12:18–19; Exodus 20:18–19
- 12 Deuteronomy 5:4; Deuteronomy 5:22; Deuteronomy 4:15; John 12:28–30; Matthew 3:17
- 13 Exodus 34:28; Exodus 31:18; Deuteronomy 9:9–11; Exodus 24:12; Exodus 19:5
- 14 Ezekiel 21:1–23; Psalm 105:44–45
- 15 Deuteronomy 4:12; 2 Corinthians 4:4–6; Isaiah 40:18; Malachi 2:15; Jeremiah 17:21
- 16 Acts 17:29; Deuteronomy 5:8; Romans 1:22–24; Deuteronomy 4:23; Exodus 20:4–5
- 17 Romans 1:23
- 19 Romans 1:25; Deuteronomy 17:3; 2 Kings 21:3; Genesis 1:16–18; 2 Kings 17:16
- 20 1 Kings 8:51; Jeremiah 11:4; Exodus 19:5–6; Deuteronomy 32:9; Psalm 135:4
- 21 Numbers 20:12; Deuteronomy 1:37; Psalm 106:32–33; Deuteronomy 3:26; Deuteronomy 31:2
- 22 Deuteronomy 3:25; Deuteronomy 3:27; 2 Peter 1:13–15; Hebrews 12:6–10; 1 Kings 13:21–22
- 23 Deuteronomy 4:9; Isaiah 24:5; Ezekiel 16:59; Joshua 23:16; Deuteronomy 29:25
- 24 Hebrews 12:29; Deuteronomy 9:3; Exodus 24:17; Nahum 1:6; Isaiah 33:14
- 25 Deuteronomy 4:16; 1 Corinthians 10:22; Hosea 9:9; Exodus 32:7; 2 Kings 21:14–16
- 26 Deuteronomy 32:1; Micah 6:2; Deuteronomy 30:18–19; Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 22:29
- 27 Deuteronomy 28:62–64; Leviticus 26:33; Nehemiah 1:8–9; Ezekiel 32:26; Ezekiel 12:15
- 28 Deuteronomy 28:64; Jeremiah 16:13; Isaiah 46:7; Deuteronomy 28:36; 1 Samuel 26:19
- 29 Jeremiah 29:12–14; Psalm 119:2; 2 Chronicles 15:4; Isaiah 55:6–7; Psalm 119:10
- 30 Joel 2:12–13; Jeremiah 23:20; Hosea 3:5; Deuteronomy 31:29; Genesis 49:1
- 31 Deuteronomy 31:8; Psalm 116:5; Nehemiah 9:31; Jonah 4:2; 2 Chronicles 30:9
- 32 Job 8:8; Psalm 44:1; Deuteronomy 32:7; Matthew 24:31; Joel 1:2
- 33 Deuteronomy 5:24; Judges 6:22; Exodus 33:20; Deuteronomy 5:26; Exodus 24:11
- 34 Deuteronomy 26:8; Deuteronomy 5:15; Exodus 6:6; Deuteronomy 7:19; Deuteronomy 7:8–9
- 35 Isaiah 45:18; 1 Samuel 2:2; Isaiah 45:5; Isaiah 44:8; Deuteronomy 4:39
- 36 Exodus 19:19; Exodus 19:9; Deuteronomy 4:33; Nehemiah 9:13; Hebrews 12:25
- 37 Deuteronomy 10:15; Isaiah 63:11–12; Exodus 13:9; Exodus 13:3; Exodus 13:14
- 38 Deuteronomy 7:1; Exodus 23:27–28; Deuteronomy 11:23; Deuteronomy 9:1–5; Psalm 44:2–3
- 39 Joshua 2:11; Deuteronomy 4:35; 1 Chronicles 29:11; Hosea 7:2; Psalm 135:6
- 40 Deuteronomy 6:3; Ephesians 6:3; Deuteronomy 12:25; Leviticus 22:31; Deuteronomy 12:28
- 41 Numbers 35:6; Numbers 35:14–15; Joshua 20:2–9
- 42 Deuteronomy 19:1–10; Hebrews 6:18; Numbers 35:6; Numbers 35:15–28; Numbers 35:11–12
- 43 Joshua 20:8; 1 Chronicles 6:71; 1 Chronicles 6:80; Joshua 21:27; 1 Kings 4:13
- 44 Deuteronomy 27:26; Leviticus 27:34; Malachi 4:4; Deuteronomy 27:8; Deuteronomy 1:5
- 45 1 Kings 2:3; Psalm 119:14; Psalm 119:24; Deuteronomy 6:20; Deuteronomy 4:1
- 46 Deuteronomy 3:29; Numbers 32:19; Deuteronomy 2:30–36; Deuteronomy 3:8; Deuteronomy 1:4–5
- 47 Deuteronomy 29:7–8; Numbers 21:33–35; Deuteronomy 3:1–14
- 48 Deuteronomy 3:9; Deuteronomy 2:36; Deuteronomy 3:12; Psalm 133:3; Joshua 13:24–33
- 49 Deuteronomy 3:17; Deuteronomy 34:1; Joshua 13:20
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… And he does thus explain what are meant by the things in heaven: "Lest when," he says, "looking towards heaven, and observing the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and all the ornament of heaven, falling into error, thou shouldest adore and serve them." And Moses himself, being a man of God, was indeed given as a god before …
… their own pride, as fowls of the air, nor their own curiosities, by which (like the fishes of the sea) they wander over the unknown paths of the abyss, nor their own extravagance, as the "beasts of the field," that Thou, Lord, "a consuming fire," mayest burn up their lifeless cares and renew them immortally.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
"For ye shall not add," saith he, "unto the word which I command you this day, and ye shall not take away from it." But not the less were they innovating; as in this instance, that one ought not to eat with unwashen hands, that we must wash cups and brazen vessels, that we must wash also ourselves.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Wherefore Moses saith also to the Israelites: And take ye good heed to your own souls, for ye saw no similitude.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… (God), even if, as those who are skilful in these matters say, it were derived from Theein (to run) or from Aithein (to blaze), from continual motion, and because He consumes evil conditions of things (from which fact He is also called A Consuming Fire), would still be one of the Relative Names, and not an Absolute one; as again …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)