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Deuteronomy 4:30 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your God and listen to his voice. "
Deuteronomy 4:30
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28 There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to the LORD your God and listen to his voice.
31 For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as great as this thing is, or has been heard like it?
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Deuteronomy 4:1
"Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances 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, gives you."
Deuteronomy 4:2
"You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you."
Deuteronomy 4:3
"Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you."
Deuteronomy 4:4
"But you who were faithful to the LORD your God are all alive today."
Deuteronomy 4:5
"Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it."
Deuteronomy 4:6
"Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”"
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