Deuteronomy 4:15
The 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.
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- Josh 23:11 : 11 Watch yourselves carefully! Love the LORD your God!
- Isa 40:18 : 18 To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?
- Deut 4:12 : 12 Then the LORD spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything– only a voice was heard.
- Deut 4:23 : 23 Be 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.
- Deut 4:9 : 9 Reminder 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.
- Jer 17:21 : 21 The LORD says,‘Be very careful if you value your lives! Do not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
- Mal 2:15 : 15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
- 2 Cor 4:4-6 : 4 among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
- Heb 1:3 : 3 The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
- 1 Chr 28:9-9 : 9 “And you, Solomon my son, obey the God of your father and serve him with a submissive attitude and a willing spirit, for the LORD examines all minds and understands every motive of one’s thoughts. If you seek him, he will let you find him, but if you abandon him, he will reject you permanently. 10 Realize now that the LORD has chosen you to build a temple as his sanctuary. Be strong and do it!”
- Ps 119:9 : 9 ב(Bet) How can a young person maintain a pure life? By guarding it according to your instructions!
- Prov 4:23 : 23 Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
- Prov 4:27 : 27 Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.
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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.
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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.
10You 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.”
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.
12Then the LORD spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything– only a voice was heard.
13And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.
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.
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16I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,
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4The LORD spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.
5(I was standing between the LORD and you at that time to reveal the LORD’s message to you, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:
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33Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?
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?
35You have been taught that the LORD alone is God– there is no other besides him.
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.
- Exod 20:3-42 verses76%
3“You shall have no other gods before me.
4“You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.
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11Watch yourselves carefully! Love the LORD your God!
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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.”
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1Exhortation to Obedience“‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the LORD your God.
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17You must not make yourselves molten gods.
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4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.
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4Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the LORD your God.
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7You must not have any other gods besides me.
8You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.
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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,
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20You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.
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30After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say,“How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.”
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40Now be sure to make them according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.
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2Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am delivering to you.
3You have witnessed what the LORD did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor.
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22The Narrative of the Sinai Revelation and Israel’s Response The LORD said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. Then he inscribed the words on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
23Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.
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12Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you.
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16Exhortation to Instruction and Obedience Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!
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25You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
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3No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.”
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35The LORD made a covenant with them and instructed them,“You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them.
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16When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!
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17Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.
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17You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)
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33the one who would go before you on the way to find places for you to camp, appearing in a fire at night and in a cloud by day to show you the way you ought to go.
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17Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.
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31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,
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8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.
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14You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,
15for the LORD your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.
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22You must not erect a sacred pillar, a thing the LORD your God detests.
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28There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.
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18For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind
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13Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,