Structure of Deut 4:9-20

A. Warning: Only take heed and watch yourselves diligently . . . v.9a.

B. Temptation: Watch. . lest you forget. . . and lest . . , v.9b.

C. The Horeb Experience: the day you stood before Yahweh at Horeb, when he said . . . while it blazed with fire . . . v.10-11.

D. The Form of God: you heard the sound of words but saw no form . . . v.12b.

E. Yahweh's Commandment: He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to observe . . . v.13a.

F. The Ten Commandments, v.13b.

E'. Yahweh's Commandment: Yahweh commanded me . . . to teach you the decrees and laws for you to observe . . . v.14.

D'. The Form of God: you saw no form of any kind . . . v.15a.

C'. The Horeb Experience: the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire, v.15b.

B'. Temptation: Watch . . . lest you become corrupt . . . and lest . . , v.15b-19.

A'. Encouragement: As for you, Yahweh took you and brought you . . . to make for himself a people of his inheritance, as is the case today, v.20.

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