Study Desk

"Today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse—

a blessing, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today;

be sure to obey all the laws that I am giving you today.

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God set you free; that is why I am now giving you this command.

Then Moses, together with the leaders of Israel, said to the people, "Obey all the instructions that I am giving you today.

and you are on the other side of the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am instructing you today, and cover them with plaster.

so obey him and keep all his laws that I am giving you today."

"If you obey the Lord your God and faithfully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, he will make you greater than any other nation on earth.

The Lord your God will make you the leader among the nations and not a follower; you will always prosper and never fail if you obey faithfully all his commands that I am giving you today.

"But if you disobey the Lord your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:

If you and your descendants will turn back to the Lord and with all your heart obey his commands that I am giving you today,

and you will again obey him and keep all his commands that I am giving you today.

"The command that I am giving you today is not too difficult or beyond your reach.

"Today I am giving you a choice between good and evil, between life and death.

I am now giving you the choice between life and death, between God's blessing and God's curse, and I call heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Choose life.

and said, "I am now a hundred and twenty years old and am no longer able to be your leader. And besides this, the Lord has told me that I will not cross the Jordan.

When that happens, I will become angry with them; I will abandon them, and they will be destroyed. Many terrible disasters will come upon them, and then they will realize that these things are happening to them because I, their God, am no longer with them.

I know how stubborn and rebellious they are. They have rebelled against the Lord during my lifetime, and they will rebel even more after I am dead.

"‘I, and I alone, am God; no other god is real. I kill and I give life, I wound and I heal, and no one can oppose what I do.

As surely as I am the living God, I raise my hand and I vow