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Deuteronomy 4

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Whosoever will, may come.
the fifth book of moses, called deuteronomy
Moses · c. 1406 BC
Chapter the Fourth
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
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Chuck Smith on Deuteronomy 4

Verse by verse, the C2000 series. Permission granted by The Word For Today.
Verses 1-4 NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD the God of your fathers is given to you. For ye shall not add unto the word which I commanded, neither shall ye diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you ( Deuteronomy 4:1-2 ). So the forbidden to add or take away from the commandments, from the word that God had spoken through Moses. When we get to the book of Revelation, again there is a prohibition to adding to or taking away from the words of that prophecy. It is interesting how people like to mess around with the word of God, adding or taking away. But that is something that we have been forbidden to do, not to add or to diminish from that which God has declared. Behold, [he said] I have taught you the statutes the judgments, the LORD commanded me. Now keep them and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding. For what nation is there that is so great, who had the God that is so near to them, as the LORD our God is in all of the things which we call upon him for? For what nation is there so great, that has the statutes and judgments that are so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? Only take heed to yourself, and to keep thy soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them to your sons, and to your sons' sons ( Deuteronomy 4:5-9 ); Verses 5-18 Teach them to your children, to your grandchildren these commandments, these statutes. There's no nation in all the world that has had the privileges that we have had. God being so near to them and giving them such a righteous law. And then he speaks about how that the law came there on Mount Horeb or Mount Sinai-Horeb and how that the people were fearful because of the thunder and the lightning. [And Moses said,] Now you heard the words, but you did not see any similitude; only you heard a voice. And the voice declared unto you the covenant, and he commanded you to perform, the ten commandments; he wrote them on two tables of stones. [verse fifteen] Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for you saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb in the midst of the fire: Lest you would corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of any male or female, The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air, The likeness of any thing that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: And lest thou lift up thine eyes into heaven, when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the host of heaven, and you be driven to worship them ( Deuteronomy 4:12-13 , Deuteronomy 4:15-19 ), Now, he points out the fact that when they heard the voice of God they didn't see any form at all, deliberately so. For God did not want them making any kind of a representative likeness of God. Now in all of the nations around them they had all of their little carvings, all of their little idols that were representing their gods. Some of them were female idols with multi-breasts, some of them were male-type idols. Some of them were weird, wings. Some of them looked like fish. Some of them looked monstrous, gargoyle kind. This is God. This is what God looks like. He said, "not so". God doesn't want you making any graven image. God doesn't want you making any kind of a representative likeness of Him. It's not to be done. Now there is a compelling force within man to worship. It's a part of human nature. And here he has said, Lest when you look at the stars, and the moon, and the host of heaven, that you'd be driven to worship heaven" ( Deuteronomy 4:19 ) Verse 19 There is something within man that drives him to worship. You've gotta worship something. It's like Bob Dylan said, "You've gotta serve somebody" and that's true. You're driven to serve somebody. There's a driving, compelling force for you to serve somebody and it is always tragic when men leave the worship and serving of the true and the living God, the creator and the sustainer of the universe of all life and life forms. And they begin to make a likeness of God like a man or like a woman or like an animal and they begin to bow down and worship these little likenesses. They begin to offer their prayers before these likenesses. There's something within man that compels him to worship but God doesn't want you worshiping before any altar. When the woman of Samaria said unto Jesus, "Our fathers say that we're to worship God in this mountain. You say that we are to worship Him in Jerusalem. Where do we worship God?"( John 4:20 ). Jesus said, "The day is coming and now is when they that worship God will neither worship in this mountain nor in Jerusalem for God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth and God is seeking such to worship Him"( John 4:23-24 ). Verses 20-23 God cannot be localized. Nor should we try to make any kind of a representation of God. I personally have great problems with any pictures of Christ. I really don't care for them. That's personal, that's with me, that's something personal. I'm not telling you to go home and get rid of all the pictures. It's just something personal within me. I don't care for any pictures of Christ. God didn't want man making any kind of representation of Himself. So they heard the voice but they didn't see any likeness, they didn't see any form lest they would create some form and begin to worship it. Men are driven to worship. Furthermore the LORD was angry with me [He said] for your sakes, and he sware that I should not go over Jordan, that I should not go over into the good land, which the LORD God gives to you for an inheritance: But I must die in this land, and I must not go over Jordan: but you shall go over, and possess the good land ( Deuteronomy 4:21-22 ) Verse 24 "For your sakes." You see, Moses recognizes that it was for their sakes that God was sticking to his word. For the LORD thy God-well before, Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant ( Deuteronomy 4:23 ) Verse 25 which God made with you, and you make a graven image, or a likeness of any thing, that the LORD thy God has forbidden you. For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God ( Deuteronomy 4:23-24 ).

Commentary on Deuteronomy 4

Whosoever Will · the Seven Threads Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:1

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8

Deuteronomy 4:2

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8

Deuteronomy 4:3

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8

Deuteronomy 4:4

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8

Deuteronomy 4:5

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8

Deuteronomy 4:6

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8

Deuteronomy 4:7

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:8

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:9

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:10

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:11

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:12

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:13

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:14

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:15

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:16

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:17

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:18

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:19

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:20

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:21

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:22

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:23

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:24

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:25

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:26

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:27

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:28

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:29

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:30

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:31

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:32

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:33

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:34

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:35

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:36

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:37

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:38

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:39

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:40

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:41

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:42

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:43

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:44

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:45

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:46

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:47

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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Deuteronomy 4:48

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Deuteronomy 30:1-4 · Jeremiah 29:13 · James 4:8

Deuteronomy 4:49

Chapter 4 is Moses's theological commentary on everything that has happened: the argument he makes from history. You saw what God did at Baal-Peor. You saw what happened to those who followed the Baal. And you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today. The survival is itself the argument. The appeal is to genuine seeking: if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul. Thread 1 is the promise of findability: the God who cannot stop reaching is also the God who can be found when sought. Thread 4 is the seeking that must be genuine, all your heart, all your soul. The seeking is a real act that the person must actually do. Chapter 5 gives the Decalogue a second time, Moses reprising the Sinai event for the generation that was not there or was too young to remember. The preamble is identical to Exodus 20: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Redemption before law. What God has done before what God requires. The sequence is the theological point. Thread 2 is the covenant identity Moses is reinforcing: you are a people set apart, a nation different from all nations precisely because no other nation has a God so near to them. The corporate election is not an abstract theological doctrine. It is the lived experience of a people whose God has been with them through Egypt, through the sea, through forty years of wilderness.
If from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: the reaching God's open promise of findability to the seeking heart; and the second giving of the Ten Commandments is framed by the same redemption-before-law preamble as Exodus 20.
וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם אֶת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וּמָצָאתָ (u-viqqashtem mi-sham et YHWH Elohekha u-matsa'ta): if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him: u-viqqashtem (and you shall seek, Piel perfect with waw consecutive; the Piel is intensive, earnest seeking; the seeking is genuine, the finding is promised as the genuine outcome; the conditional is real and the promise is real; ki tidrshenu be-khol levavkha u-ve-khol nafshekha, when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul)
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