Deuteronomy · Literal Standard Version
Deuteronomy 4 Literal Standard Version
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1 “And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and to the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that you live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which YHWH God of your fathers is giving to you.
1 AHORA pues, oh Israel, oye los estatutos y derechos que yo os enseño, para que los ejecutéis, y viváis, y entréis, y poseáis la tierra que Jehová el Dios de vuestros padres te da.
2 You do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of your God YHWH which I am commanding you.
2 No añadiréis á la palabra que yo os mando, ni disminuiréis de ella, para que guardéis los mandamientos de Jehová vuestro Dios que yo os ordeno.
3 Your eyes are seeing that which YHWH has done in Ba‘al-Peor, for every man who has gone after Ba‘al-Peor, your God YHWH has destroyed him from your midst;
3 Vuestros ojos vieron lo que hizo Jehová con motivo de Baal-peor; que á todo hombre que fué en pos de Baal-peor destruyó Jehová tu Dios de en medio de ti.
4 and you who are cleaving to your God YHWH [are] alive today—all of you.
4 Mas vosotros que os allegasteis á Jehová vuestro Dios, todos estáis vivos hoy.
5 See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as my God YHWH has commanded me, to do so in the midst of the land to where you are going in to possess it;
5 Mirad, yo os he enseñado estatutos y derechos, como Jehová mi Dios me mandó, para que hagáis así en medio de la tierra en la cual entráis para poseerla.
6 and you have kept and done [them] (for it [is] your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Surely a people wise and understanding [is] this great nation.
6 Guardadlos, pues, y ponedlos por obra: porque esta es vuestra sabiduría y vuestra inteligencia en ojos de los pueblos, los cuales oirán todos estos estatutos, y dirán: Ciertamente pueblo sabio y entendido, gente grande es ésta.
7 For which [is] the great nation that has God [so] near to it, as our God YHWH, in all we have called to Him?
7 Porque ¿qué gente grande hay que tenga los dioses cercanos á sí, como lo está Jehová nuestro Dios en todo cuanto le pedimos?
8 And which [is] the great nation which has righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you today?
8 Y ¿qué gente grande hay que tenga estatutos y derechos justos, como es toda esta ley que yo pongo hoy delante de vosotros?
9 Only, take heed to yourself, and watch your soul exceedingly, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all [the] days of your life; and you have made them known to your sons and to your sons’ sons.
9 Por tanto, guárdate, y guarda tu alma con diligencia, que no te olvides de las cosas que tus ojos han visto, ni se aparten de tu corazón todos los días de tu vida: y enseñarlas has á tus hijos, y á los hijos de tus hijos;
10 [Never forget] the day when you have stood before your God YHWH in Horeb, in YHWH’s saying to me, Assemble the people to Me, and I cause them to hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and they teach their sons;
10 El día que estuviste delante de Jehová tu Dios en Horeb, cuando Jehová me dijo: Júntame el pueblo, para que yo les haga oir mis palabras, las cuales aprenderán, para temerme todos los días que vivieren sobre la tierra: y [las] enseñarán á sus hijos;
11 and you draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire to the heart of the heavens, [with] darkness, cloud, and thick darkness,
11 Y os llegasteis, y os pusisteis al pie del monte; y el monte ardía en fuego hasta en medio de los cielos con tinieblas, nube, y oscuridad.
12 and YHWH speaks to you out of the midst of the fire; you are hearing a voice of words, but you are seeing no likeness, only a voice;
12 Y habló Jehová con vosotros de en medio del fuego: oisteis la voz de sus palabras, mas á excepción de [oir] la voz, ninguna figura visteis:
13 and He declares His covenant to you, which He has commanded you to do, the Ten Commandments, and He writes them on two tablets of stone.
13 Y él os anunció su pacto, el cual os mandó poner por obra, las diez palabras; y escribiólas en dos tablas de piedra.
14 And YHWH has commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in the land to where you are passing over to possess it.
14 A mí también me mandó Jehová entonces enseñaros los estatutos y derechos, para que los pusieseis por obra en la tierra á la cual pasáis para poseerla.
15 And you have been very watchful of your souls, for you have not seen any likeness in the day of YHWH’s speaking to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
15 Guardad pues mucho vuestras almas: pues ninguna figura visteis el día que Jehová habló con vosotros de en medio del fuego:
16 lest you do corruptly, and have made for yourselves a carved image, a likeness of any figure: a form of male or female,
16 Porque no os corrompáis, y hagáis para vosotros escultura, imagen de figura alguna, efigie de varón ó hembra,
17 a form of any beast which [is] in the earth, a form of any winged bird which flies in the heavens,
17 Figura de algún animal que sea en la tierra, figura de ave alguna alada que vuele por el aire,
18 a form of any creeping thing on the ground, a form of any fish which [is] in the waters below the earth.
18 Figura de ningún [animal] que vaya arrastrando por la tierra, figura de pez alguno que haya en el agua debajo de la tierra:
19 And lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and have seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and have been drawn away, and have bowed yourself to them and served them, which your God YHWH has apportioned to all the peoples under all the heavens.
19 Y porque alzando tus ojos al cielo, y viendo el sol y la luna y las estrellas, y todo el ejército del cielo, no seas incitado, y te inclines á ellos, y les sirvas; que Jehová tu Dios los ha concedido á todos los pueblos debajo de todos los cielos.
20 And YHWH has taken you, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him for a people, an inheritance, as [at] this day.
20 Empero á vosotros Jehová os tomó, y os ha sacado del horno de hierro, de Egipto, para que le seáis por pueblo de heredad como en este día.
21 And YHWH has showed Himself angry with me because of your words, and swears to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going into the good land which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance;
21 Y Jehová se enojó contra mí sobre vuestros negocios, y juró que yo no pasaría el Jordán, ni entraría en la buena tierra, que Jehová tu Dios te da por heredad.
22 for I am dying in this land; I am not passing over the Jordan, but you are passing over and have possessed this good land.
22 Así que yo voy á morir en esta tierra; y no paso el Jordán: mas vosotros pasaréis, y poseeréis aquella buena tierra.
23 Take heed to yourselves lest you forget the covenant of your God YHWH which He has made with you, and have made a carved image for yourselves, a likeness of anything [concerning] which your God YHWH has charged you;
23 Guardaos no os olvidéis del pacto de Jehová vuestro Dios, que él estableció con vosotros, y os hagáis escultura ó imagen de cualquier cosa, que Jehová tu Dios te ha vedado.
24 for your God YHWH is a consuming fire—a zealous God.
24 Porque Jehová tu Dios es fuego que consume, Dios celoso.
25 When you beget sons and sons’ sons, and you have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a carved image, a likeness of anything, and have done evil in the eyes of YHWH to provoke Him to anger,
25 Cuando hubiereis engendrado hijos y nietos, y hubiereis envejecido en la tierra, y os corrompiereis, é hiciereis escultura ó imagen de cualquier cosa, é hiciereis mal en ojos de Jehová vuestro Dios, para enojarlo;
26 I have caused the heavens and the earth to testify against you this day, that you perish utterly quickly from off the land to where you are passing over the Jordan to possess it; you do not prolong days on it, but are utterly destroyed;
26 Yo pongo hoy por testigos al cielo y á la tierra, que presto pereceréis totalmente de la tierra hacia la cual pasáis el Jordán para poseerla: no estaréis en ella largos días sin que seáis destruídos.
27 and YHWH has scattered you among the peoples, and you have been left few in number among the nations to where YHWH leads you,
27 Y Jehová os esparcirá entre los pueblos, y quedaréis pocos en número entre las gentes á las cuales os llevará Jehová:
28 and you have served gods there, work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
28 Y serviréis allí á dioses hechos de manos de hombres, á madera y á piedra, que no ven, ni oyen, ni comen, ni huelen.
29 And you have sought your God YHWH from there, and have found [Him] when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
29 Mas si desde allí buscares á Jehová tu Dios, lo hallarás, si lo buscares de todo tu corazón y de toda tu alma.
30 In the distress of yours, when all these things have found you in the latter end of the days, and you have turned back to your God YHWH and have listened to His voice—
30 Cuando estuviereis en angustia, y te alcanzaren todas estas cosas, si en los postreros días te volvieres á Jehová tu Dios, y oyeres su voz;
31 for your God YHWH [is] a merciful God—He does not fail you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He has sworn to them.
31 Porque Dios misericordioso es Jehová tu Dios; no te dejará, ni te destruirá, ni se olvidará del pacto de tus padres que les juró.
32 For ask now of the former days which have been before you, from the day that God created man on the earth, and from the [one] end of the heavens even to the [other] end of the heavens, whether there has been as this great thing, or [if anything] has been heard like it.
32 Porque pregunta ahora de los tiempos pasados, que han sido antes de ti, desde el día que crió Dios al hombre sobre la tierra, y desde el un cabo del cielo al otro, si se ha hecho cosa semejante á esta gran cosa, ó se haya oído otra como ella.
33 Has a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, you—and live?
33 ¿Ha oído pueblo la voz de Dios, que hablase de en medio del fuego, como tú la has oído, y vivido?
34 Or has God tried to go in to take a nation for Himself from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that your God YHWH has done to you in Egypt before your eyes?
34 ¿O ha Dios probado á venir á tomar para sí gente de en medio [de otra] gente, con pruebas, con señales, con milagros, y con guerra, y mano fuerte, y brazo extendido, y grandes espantos, según todas las cosas que hizo con vosotros Jehová vuestro Dios en Egipto ante tus ojos?
35 You—you have been shown [it], to know that He, YHWH, [is] God; there is none else besides Him.
35 A ti te fué mostrado, para que supieses que Jehová él es Dios; no hay más fuera de él.
36 He has caused you to hear His voice from the heavens, to instruct you; and on earth He has showed you His great fire, and you have heard His words out of the midst of the fire.
36 De los cielos te hizo oir su voz, para enseñarte: y sobre la tierra te mostró su gran fuego: y has oído sus palabras de en medio del fuego.
37 And because that He has loved your fathers, He also fixes on their seed after them, and brings you out in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt,
37 Y por cuanto él amó á tus padres, escogió su simiente después de ellos, y sacóte delante de sí de Egipto con su gran poder;
38 to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you from your presence, to bring you in to give their land to you [for] an inheritance, as [at] this day.
38 Para echar de delante de ti gentes grandes y más fuertes que tú, y para introducirte, y darte su tierra por heredad, como hoy.
39 And you have known today, and have turned [it] back to your heart, that He, YHWH, [is] God in the heavens above and on the earth below—there is none else;
39 Aprende pues hoy, y reduce á tu corazón que Jehová él es el Dios arriba en el cielo, y abajo sobre la tierra; no hay otro.
40 and you have kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding you today, so that it is well for you, and for your sons after you, and so that you prolong days on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you—all the days.”
40 Y guarda sus estatutos y sus mandamientos, que yo te mando hoy, para que te vaya bien á ti y á tus hijos después de ti, y prolongues tus días sobre la tierra que Jehová tu Dios te da para siempre.
41 Then Moses separates three cities beyond the Jordan, toward the sun-rising,
41 Entonces apartó Moisés tres ciudades de esta parte del Jordán al nacimiento del sol,
42 for the fleeing there of the manslayer who slays his neighbor unknowingly, and he is not hating him before, and he has fled to one of these cities and he has lived:
42 Para que huyese allí el homicida que matase á su prójimo por yerro, sin haber tenido enemistad con él desde ayer ni antes de ayer; y que huyendo á una de estas ciudades salvara la vida:
43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the plain, for the Reubenite; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadite; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassite.
43 A Beser en el desierto, en tierra de la llanura, de los Rubenitas; y á Ramoth en Galaad, de los Gaditas; y á Golán en Basán, de los de Manasés.
44 And this [is] the law which Moses has set before the sons of Israel;
44 Esta, pues, es la ley que Moisés propuso delante de los hijos de Israel.
45 these [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses has spoken to the sons of Israel in their coming out of Egypt,
45 Estos son los testimonios, y los estatutos, y los derechos, que Moisés notificó á los hijos de Israel, cuando hubieron salido de Egipto;
46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel have struck in their coming out of Egypt;
46 De esta parte del Jordán, en el valle delante de Beth-peor, en la tierra de Sehón rey de los Amorrheos, que habitaba en Hesbón, al cual hirió Moisés con los hijos de Israel, cuando hubieron salido de Egipto:
47 and they possess his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorite who [are] beyond the Jordan, [toward] the sun-rising,
47 Y poseyeron su tierra, y la tierra de Og rey de Basán; dos reyes de los Amorrheos que estaban de esta parte del Jordán, al nacimiento del sol:
48 from Aroer, which [is] by the edge of the Brook of Arnon, even to Mount Zion, which [is] Hermon—
48 Desde Aroer, que está junto á la ribera del arroyo de Arnón, hasta el monte de Sión, que es Hermón;
49 and all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the Sea of the Plain, below the Springs of Pisgah.
49 Y toda la llanura de esta parte del Jordán, al oriente, hasta la mar del llano, las vertientes de las aguas abajo del Pisga.
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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
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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)