OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 4:8

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What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?

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Verse 8. Eyes. Most of these laws had been already promulgated, so that the people could set a just value upon them. But Moses undertakes to place the in a more beautiful point of view, as it were altogether, and accompanied with some fresh regulations. How imperfect are all the codes of the ancient lawgivers, when compared with this of Moses! Bible.

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