1 Moses said to Israel, listen to the rules I teach. Do them so you live and get the land God gives you. ✅️ 2 Do not add to God’s word. Do not take away from it. Keep God’s rules. ➕❌➖❌ 3 You saw what God did at Baal Peor. God removed the men who ran to a not-real god there. ⚡❌ 4 But you who stayed with God are alive today. ❤️ 5 I taught you God’s rules, like God told me. Do them in the new land. ➡️️ 6 Keep the rules and do them. Other people will see and say, this group is wise. ✅ 7 No other group has a god so near. Our God is near when we call. 8 No other group has good rules like these. ⚖️⭐ 9 Be careful. Do not forget what you saw. Keep it in your heart. Tell your kids and your grandkids. ⚠️ 10 At Horeb, God said, gather the people to hear My words. Learn to do what I say for all your life, and teach your kids too. ⛰️️ 11 You stood by the big hill. The hill had big fire. There was dark cloud and deep dark. ⛰️☁️ 12 God spoke from the fire. You heard words, but you saw no shape. Only a voice. ️ 13 God told you His promise, the Ten Rules. He wrote them on two stone rocks. ✋1️⃣0️⃣✍️ 14 God told me to teach you these rules, so you can do them in the land. ➡️️ 15 Be very careful. You saw no shape of God that day. Do not make a statue of a man or a woman. ⚠️♂️ 16 Do not make a statue of any animal or bird. 17 Do not make a statue of things that crawl or any fish. 18 Do not make a statue like any creeping thing or any fish in the water. 19 Do not bow to the sun, moon, or stars. God made them for all people. ☀️⭐♂️ 20 God took you out of Egypt, a hard, hot place like a big oven, to be His people. ➡️❤️ 21 God was mad at me because of you. I will not cross the Jordan. I will not go in the good land your God gives you. ️ 22 I will die here. I will not cross the Jordan. But you will cross and get the good land. ⚰️➡️️ 23 Be careful. Do not forget God’s promise. Do not make a statue. ⚠️ 24 God is like a big fire. God wants you only for Him. ❤️ 25 When you have kids and grandkids, if you make a statue and do bad, God will be mad. ❌ 26 I call sky and land to see this: if you do that, you will soon lose the land. You will not live long there. ⛔⏳ 27 God will send you out to many lands. Only a few of you will be left. ️♂️♀️ 28 There you will bow to wood and stone statues that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell. ♂️❌️ 29 But if you look for God with all your heart, you will find Him. ❤️✨ 30 When life is hard, you will come back to God and do what He says. ✅ 31 God is kind. He will not leave you or forget His promise to your fathers. 32 Ask about long ago, from when God made people, from one side of the sky to the other: has this ever been? ⏳️❓ 33 Did any people hear God’s voice from fire and live? You did. ️➡️ 34 Did any other god take a people from another land with big signs, power, and war? God did this for you in Egypt. ✋⚔️ 35 God showed you this so you know the Lord is God. There is no other. ➡️️1️⃣ 36 From the sky you heard His voice. On the land you saw His big fire. You heard His words from the fire. ☁️️ 37 God loved your fathers and chose you. He brought you out of Egypt with great power. ❤️➡️♂️ 38 He pushed out big nations and gave you their land. ➡️️ 39 Know this today: the Lord is God in the sky and on the land. There is no other. ☁️1️⃣ 40 So keep His rules. Then it will go well for you and your kids. You will live long in the land God gives you. ✅⏳️ 41 Then Moses picked three safe towns east of the Jordan. ️️️️➡️ 42 If someone kills a friend by accident, he can run there and live. ♂️⚖️️ 43 The towns were Bezer for Reuben, Ramoth for Gad, and Golan for Manasseh. ️️ 44 These are the rules Moses gave to Israel. 45 These are the words and rules Moses spoke to the people after they came out of Egypt. ️➡️ 46 This was east of the Jordan, by Beth Peor, in the land of King Sihon. Moses and Israel beat him. ➡️⚔️✅ 47 They took his land and the land of King Og, two Amorite kings, east of the Jordan. ️️✅ 48 From Aroer by the Arnon valley to Mount Sirion, also called Hermon. ️️⛰️ 49 All the Arabah east of the Jordan to the Sea of the Arabah, by the hills of Pisgah. ⛰️