Book of Deuteronomy Quotes

“The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.”

“Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark.”

“I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day.”

“Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.”

“I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.”

“For they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.”

“The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.”

“The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.”

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“In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning!”

“I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life that both thou and thy seed may live.”

“Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; (For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you).”

“He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.”

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”

“Remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm.”

“Deuteronomy prohibits cult prostitution because the Hebrews were adopting the practice from their neighbors.”

“So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.”

“And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with Manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might thee know what man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.”

“If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”

“Josiah “broke down the houses of the qdeshim, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women were weaving coverings for the Asherah.” It was during his reign that a book of the Law, thought by most scholars to have been Deuteronomy, was conveniently discovered in the Temple. Although some of the manuscript may have been written earlier, many scholars think it was forged during Josiah’s reign in order to legitimate his reforms. It is in Deuteronomy that the prohibition of cult prostitution appears.”