Study Desk

No other people have ever heard God speak from a fire and have still lived. But you have.

No other god has ever taken for himself one nation out of another. But the Lord your God did this for you in Egypt, right before your own eyes. He did it with tests, signs, miracles, war, and great sights, by his great power and strength.

He showed you things so you would know that the Lord is God, and there is no other God besides him.

Know and believe today that the Lord is God. He is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other god!

Obey his laws and commands that I am giving you today so that things will go well for you and your children. Then you will live a long time in the land that the Lord your God is giving to you forever.

The Lord our God made an Agreement with us at Mount Sinai.

"I am the Lord your God; I brought you out of the land of Egypt where you were slaves.

You must not worship or serve any idol, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. If people sin against me and hate me, I will punish their children, even their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

"You must not use the name of the Lord your God thoughtlessly, because the Lord will punish anyone who uses his name in this way.

"Keep the Sabbath as a holy day, as the Lord your God has commanded you.

but the seventh day is a day of rest to honor the Lord your God. On that day no one may do any work: not you, your son or daughter, your male or female slaves, your ox, your donkey, or any of your animals, or the foreigners living in your cities. That way your servants may rest as you do.

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there by his great power and strength. So the Lord your God has commanded you to rest on the Sabbath day.

"Honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God has commanded you. Then you will live a long time, and things will go well for you in the land that the Lord your God is going to give you.

And you said, "The Lord our God has shown us his glory and majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks to him.

But now, we will die! This great fire will burn us up, and we will die if we hear the Lord our God speak anymore.

No human being has ever heard the living God speaking from a fire and still lived, but we have.

Moses, you go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then you tell us what the Lord our God tells you, and we will listen and obey."

So be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you, and follow the commands exactly.

Live the way the Lord your God has commanded you so that you may live and have what is good and have a long life in the land you will take.

These are the commands, rules, and laws that the Lord your God told me to teach you to obey in the land you are crossing the Jordan River to take.