Deu 5-11 | ESV | STEP | And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, Hear , O Israel , the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today , and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.

1 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. 2 ^aThe Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 ^bNot with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. 4 The Lord spoke with you ^cface to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, 5 ^dwhile I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord. For ^eyou were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:

6 ^f“‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

7 “‘You shall have no other gods before ^{▼▼Or besides} me.

8 “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 10 but showing steadfast love to ^hthousands ^{▼▼Or to the thousandth generation} of those who love me and keep my commandments.

11 “‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

12 “‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but ^jthe seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, ^kthat your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 ^lYou shall remember that you were a slave ^{▼▼Or servant} in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there ⁿwith a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

16 “‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, ^othat your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

17 ^p“‘You shall not murder. ^{▼▼The Hebrew word also covers causing human death through carelessness or negligence}

18 ^r“‘And you shall not commit adultery.

19 “‘And you shall not steal.

20 “‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

21 “‘And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’

22 “These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly ^sat the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And ^the wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. 23 And ^uas soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders. 24 And you said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and ^vgreatness, and ^wwe have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man ^xstill live. 25 Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. ^yIf we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die. 26 ^zFor who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived? 27 Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say, and ^aaspeak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’

28 “And the Lord heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the Lord said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. ^abThey are right in all that they have spoken. 29 ^acOh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, ^adthat it might go well with them and with their descendants ^{▼▼Or sons} forever! 30 Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.” 31 But you, stand here by me, and ^afI will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’ 32 You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. ^agYou shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33 ^ahYou shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and ^aithat it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.

Deuteronomy 6

The Greatest Commandment

1 “Now this is ^ajthe commandment—the statutes and the rules ^{▼▼Or just decrees; also verse 20}—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, 2 that ^alyou may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and ^amthat your days may be long. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, ^anas the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

4 “Hear, O Israel: ^aoThe Lord our God, the Lord is one. ^{▼▼Or The Lord our God is one Lord; or The Lord is our God, the Lord is one; or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone} 5 You ^aqshall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And ^arthese words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 ^asYou shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 ^atYou shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 ^auYou shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

10 “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities ^avthat you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, 12 ^awthen take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 13 It is ^axthe Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and ^ayby his name you shall swear. 14 You shall not ^azgo after other gods, ^bathe gods of the peoples who are around you— 15 for ^bbthe Lord your God in your midst ^bcis a jealous God— ^bdlest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

16 ^be“You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, ^bfas you tested him at Massah. 17 You shall ^bgdiligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 18 ^bhAnd you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers 19 ^biby thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has promised.

20 ^bj“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’ 21 then you shall say to your son, ^bk‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22 And ^blthe Lord showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes. 23 And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers. 24 And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, ^bmto fear the Lord our God, ^bnfor our good always, that ^bohe might preserve us alive, as we are this day. 25 And ^bpit will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.’

Deuteronomy 7

A Chosen People

1 “When the ^bqLord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, ^brthe Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations ^bsmore numerous and mightier than you, 2 ^btand when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must ^budevote them to complete destruction. ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} ^bwYou shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. 3 ^bxYou shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 4 for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. ^byThen the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you ^bzquickly. 5 But thus shall you deal with them: ^cayou shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their ^cbpillars and chop down their ^ccAsherim and ^cdburn their carved images with fire.

6 “For ^ceyou are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be ^cfa people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but ^cgit is because the Lord loves you and is keeping ^chthe oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, ^cithe faithful God ^cjwho keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10 and ^ckrepays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. ^clHe will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. 11 ^cmYou shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.

12 ^cn“And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you ^cothe covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. 13 He will ^cplove you, bless you, and multiply you. ^cqHe will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples. ^crThere shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. 15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil ^csdiseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you. 16 And ^ctyou shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. ^cuYour eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be ^cva snare to you.

17 “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?’ 18 ^cwyou shall not be afraid of them but you shall ^cxremember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, 19 the great trials that your eyes saw, ^cythe signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So will the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20 Moreover, ^czthe Lord your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed. 21 You shall not be in dread of them, for the Lord your God is ^dain your midst, ^dba great and awesome God. 22 ^dcThe Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, ^{▼▼Or quickly} lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you. 23 ^deBut the Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. 24 And ^dfhe will give their kings into your hand, and you shall ^dgmake their name perish from under heaven. ^dhNo one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. 25 The carved images of their gods ^diyou shall burn with fire. You ^djshall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ^dkensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. 26 And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); twice in this verse} like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, ^dmfor it is devoted to destruction.

Deuteronomy 8

Remember the Lord Your God

1 “The whole commandment that I command you today ^dnyou shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you ^dothese forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, ^dptesting you ^dqto know what was in your heart, ^drwhether you would keep his commandments or not. 3 And he humbled you and ^dslet you hunger and ^dtfed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that ^duman does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word ^{▼▼Hebrew by all} that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4 ^dwYour clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. 5 Know then in your heart that, ^dxas a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. 6 So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, ^dya land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, 8 a land of wheat and barley, ^dzof vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. 10 And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

11 “Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, 12 ^ealest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, 13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, 14 ^ebthen your heart be lifted up, and you ^ecforget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, 15 who ^edled you through the great and terrifying wilderness, ^eewith its fiery serpents and scorpions ^efand thirsty ground where there was no water, ^egwho brought you water out of the flinty rock, 16 who fed you in the wilderness with ^ehmanna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, ^eito do you good in the end. 17 Beware ^ejlest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ 18 You shall remember the Lord your God, for ^ekit is he who gives you power to get wealth, ^elthat he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19 And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, ^emI solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. 20 Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, ^enso shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 9

Not Because of Righteousness

1 “Hear, O Israel: you are ^eoto cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations ^epgreater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, ^eqthe sons of the Anakim, ^erwhom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’ 3 Know therefore today that he who ^esgoes over before you ^etas a consuming fire is the Lord your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. ^euSo you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has promised you.

4 ^ev“Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is ^ewbecause of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you. 5 ^exNot because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm ^eythe word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

6 “Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are ^eza stubborn people. 7 Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. ^faFrom the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. 8 Even ^fbat Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you. 9 ^fcWhen I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain ^fdforty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10 And ^fethe Lord gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the Lord had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire ^ffon the day of the assembly. 11 And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 12 Then the Lord said to me, ^fg‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have ^fhturned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.’

The Golden Calf

13 ^fi“Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is ^fja stubborn people. 14 ^fkLet me alone, that I may destroy them and ^flblot out their name from under heaven. And ^fmI will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’ 15 ^fnSo I turned and came down from the mountain, and ^fothe mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And ^fpI looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a golden ^{▼▼Hebrew cast metal} calf. ^frYou had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you. 17 So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes. 18 Then I ^fslay prostrate before the Lord ^ftas before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, ^fuin doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the Lord bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. ^fvBut the Lord listened to me that time also. 20 And the Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21 Then ^fwI took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain.

22 “At ^fxTaberah also, and at ^fyMassah and at ^fzKibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath. 23 And ^gawhen the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God and ^gbdid not believe him or obey his voice. 24 ^gcYou have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

25 ^gd“So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you. 26 ^geAnd I prayed to the Lord, ‘O Lord God, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin, 28 lest the land from which you brought us say, ^gf“Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.” 29 ^ggFor they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’

Deuteronomy 10

New Tablets of Stone

1 “At that time the Lord said to me, ^gh‘Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and ^gimake an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and ^gjyou shall put them in the ark.’ 3 So I made an ark ^gkof acacia wood, and ^glcut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. 4 And ^gmhe wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments ^{▼▼Hebrew words} ^gothat the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire ^gpon the day of the assembly. And the Lord gave them to me. 5 Then I turned and ^gqcame down from the mountain and ^grput the tablets in the ark that I had made. ^gsAnd there they are, as the Lord commanded me.”

6 (The people of Israel ^gtjourneyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan ^{▼▼Or the wells of the Bene-jaakan} to Moserah. ^gvThere Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place. 7 ^gwFrom there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water. 8 At that time ^gxthe Lord set apart the tribe of Levi ^gyto carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord ^gzto stand before the Lord to minister to him and ^hato bless in his name, to this day. 9 ^hbTherefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God said to him.)

10 ^hc“I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, ^hdand the Lord listened to me that time also. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you. 11 ^heAnd the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

Circumcise Your Heart

12 “And now, Israel, ^hfwhat does the Lord your God require of you, but ^hgto fear the Lord your God, ^hhto walk in all his ways, ^hito love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and ^hjto keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today ^hkfor your good? 14 Behold, ^hlto the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, ^hmthe earth with all that is in it. 15 Yet ^hnthe Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. 16 Circumcise therefore ^hothe foreskin of your heart, and be no longer ^hpstubborn. 17 For the Lord your God is ^hqGod of gods and ^hrLord of lords, ^hsthe great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is ^htnot partial and takes no bribe. 18 ^huHe executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. 19 ^hvLove the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 20 ^hwYou shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and ^hxhold fast to him, and ^hyby his name you shall swear. 21 ^hzHe is your praise. He is your God, ^iawho has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen. 22 Your fathers went down to Egypt ^ibseventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you ^icas numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 11

Love and Serve the Lord

1 ^id“You shall therefore love the Lord your God and ^iekeep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always. 2 And consider today (since I am not speaking to ^ifyour children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline ^{▼▼Or instruction} of the Lord your God, ^ihhis greatness, ⁱⁱhis mighty hand and his outstretched arm, 3 ^ijhis signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land, 4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, ^ikhow he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day, 5 and ^ilwhat he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place, 6 and ^imwhat he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel. 7 For your eyes have seen ⁱⁿall the great work of the Lord that he did.

8 “You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may ^iobe strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess, 9 and ^ipthat you may live long in the land ^iqthat the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, ^ira land flowing with milk and honey. 10 For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, ^{▼▼Hebrew watered it with your feet} like a garden of vegetables. 11 ^itBut the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, 12 a land that the Lord your God cares for. ^iuThe eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

13 “And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, ^ivto love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 ^iwhe ^{▼▼Samaritan, Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew I; also verse 15} will give the rain for your land in its season, ^iythe early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. 15 ^izAnd he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and ^jayou shall eat and be full. 16 Take care ^jblest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and ^jcserve other gods and worship them; 17 then ^jdthe anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he ^jewill shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and ^jfyou will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.

18 ^jg“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and ^jhyou shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 20 ^jiYou shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 ^jjthat your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, ^jkas long as the heavens are above the earth. 22 For if ^jlyou will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and ^jmholding fast to him, 23 then the Lord ^jnwill drive out all these nations before you, and you will ^jodispossess nations greater and mightier than you. 24 ^jpEvery place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be ^jqfrom the wilderness to ^{▼▼Hebrew and} the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. 25 ^jsNo one shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay ^jtthe fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, ^juas he promised you.

26 ^jv“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 27 ^jwthe blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, 28 and ^jxthe curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, ^jyto go after other gods that you have not known. 29 And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set ^jzthe blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. 30 Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the ^kaArabah, opposite Gilgal, beside ^kbthe oak ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac; see Genesis 12:6. Hebrew oaks, or terebinths} of Moreh? 31 For you are ^kdto cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it, 32 you shall be careful ^keto do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.