Deuteronomy 4:9

“Only take heed to thyself, etc.] To walk according to this law, and not swerve from it: and keep thy soul diligently; from the transgressions and breaches of it: lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen; either the statutes and judgments set before them, and the circumstances of the delivery of them; or the punishment inflicted on the breakers of them; or the favours bestowed on those that observed them: and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; out of thy mind and memory, and have no place in thy affections, through a neglect and disuse of them: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons; their children and grandchildren, that they may be trained up in…”

“A full stop should end Deuteronomy 4:9; and Deuteronomy 4:10 begin, At the time that thou stoodest, etc. Deuteronomy 4:11 then ye came near, etc. Moses, exhorting to heedful observance of the Law, strives to renew the impressions of that tremendous scene which attended its promulgation at Sinai. return to 'Top of Page'”

“keep thy soul: Deu 4:15, Deu 4:23; Pro 3:1, Pro 3:3, Pro 4:20-23; Luk 8:18; Heb 2:3; Jam 2:22 lest they: Jos 1:18; Psa 119:11; Pro 3:1-3, Pro 3:21, Pro 4:4, Pro 7:1; Heb 2:1; Rev 3:3 teach them: Deu 6:7, Deu 11:19, Deu 29:29, Deu 31:19; Gen 18:19; Exo 13:8, Exo 13:9, Exo 13:14-16; Jos 4:6, Jos 4:7, Jos 4:21; Psa 34:11-16, Psa 71:18, Psa 78:3-8; Pro 1:8, Pro 4:1-13, Pro 23:26; Isa 38:19; Eph 6:4 Deuteronomy 4:10”

“Israel was therefore not to forget the things which it had seen at Horeb with its own eyes. Deu 4:9 "Only beware and take care of thyself." To "keep the soul," i.e., to take care of the soul as the seat of life, to defend one's life from danger and injury ( Pro 13:3; Pro 19:16). "That thou do not forget את־הדּברים (the facts described in Ex 19-24), and that they do not depart from thy heart all the days of thy life," i.e., are not forgotten as long as thou livest, "and thou makest them known to thy children and thy children's children." These acts of God formed the foundation of the true religion, the real basis of the covenant legislation, and the firm guarantee of the objective truth and…”