Deuteronomy 4:10

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You stood before the LORD your God at Horeb and he said to me,“Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”

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  • Exod 19:9 : 9 The LORD said to Moses,“I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.” And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.
  • Exod 19:16 : 16 On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.
  • Heb 12:18-19 : 18 For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind 19 and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?
  • Rev 19:5 : 5 Then a voice came from the throne, saying:“Praise our God all you his servants, and all you who fear him, both the small and the great!”
  • Exod 20:18 : 18 All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking– and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.
  • Exod 20:20 : 20 Moses said to the people,“Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin.”
  • Deut 5:2 : 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
  • Deut 5:29 : 29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
  • Deut 14:23 : 23 In the presence of the LORD your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always.
  • Deut 17:19 : 19 It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.
  • Deut 31:12-13 : 12 Gather the people– men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages– so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the LORD your God and carefully obey all the words of this law. 13 Then their children, who have not known this law, will also hear about and learn to fear the LORD your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
  • 1 Sam 12:24 : 24 However, fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!
  • Eccl 12:13 : 13 Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
  • Luke 1:50 : 50 from generation to generation he is merciful to those who fear him.

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  • 84%

    11when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing.

    12Gather the people– men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages– so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the LORD your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.

    13Then their children, who have not known this law, will also hear about and learn to fear the LORD your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

  • 9Reminder of the Horeb Covenant Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

  • 11Come children! Listen to me! I will teach you what it means to fear the LORD.

  • 40Then they will obey you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

  • Deut 6:1-2
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    1Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles Now these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed

    2and that you may so revere the LORD your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you– you, your children, and your grandchildren– all your lives, to prolong your days.

  • 19Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

  • Deut 6:6-7
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    6Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

    7and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

  • 40Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.”

  • 2Bear in mind today that I am not speaking to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments of the LORD your God, which revealed his greatness, strength, and power.

  • Deut 4:14-15
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    14Moreover, at that same time the LORD commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess.

    15The Nature of Israel’s God Be very careful, then, because you saw no form at the time the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.

  • 46he said to them,“Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.

  • 19It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.

  • 28Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

  • 11You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.

  • 31Then they will honor you by obeying you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

  • Ps 78:5-6
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    5He established a rule in Jacob; he set up a law in Israel. He commanded our ancestors to make his deeds known to their descendants,

    6so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

  • 29If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

  • 25Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the LORD your God that enrage him,

  • Deut 8:5-6
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    5Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the LORD your God disciplines you.

    6So you must keep his commandments, live according to his standards, and revere him.

  • 20Exhortation to Remember the Past When your children ask you later on,“What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD our God commanded you?”

  • 20I also call on you to love the LORD your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

  • 10You must obey him and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”

  • 31But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them.”

  • 11and to teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has spoken to them through Moses.”

  • 21so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the LORD promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.

  • 5Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in the land you are about to enter and possess.

  • 3Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.

  • 36From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

  • 13and to keep the LORD’s commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?

  • 24He has done this so all the nations of the earth might recognize the LORD’s power and so you might always obey the LORD your God.”

  • 31and in the wilderness, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”

  • 16What I am commanding you today is to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.

  • 1Admonition to Follow Righteousness and Avoid Wickedness Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.

  • 4Those are the terms that I charged your ancestors to keep when I brought them out of Egypt, that place which was like an iron-smelting furnace. I said at that time,“Obey me and carry out the terms of the covenant exactly as I commanded you. If you do, you will be my people and I will be your God.

  • 1The Lord’s Provision in the Desert You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the LORD promised to your ancestors.

  • 23Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he has forbidden you.

  • 24We swear we have done this because we were worried that in the future your descendants would say to our descendants,‘What relationship do you have with the LORD God of Israel?

  • 16This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God:“Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”

  • 2Then if you and your descendants turn to the LORD your God and obey him with your whole mind and being just as I am commanding you today,

  • 1The Privileges of the Covenant Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

  • 34Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?