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But remember the Lord your God. For it is He Who is giving you power to become rich. By this He may keep His agreement which He promised to your fathers, as it is this day.

If you ever forget the Lord your God and go to other gods to worship and work for them, I tell you today that you will be destroyed for sure.

You will be destroyed like the nations the Lord destroys before you, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.

But know today that it is the Lord your God Who is crossing over before you as a fire that destroys everything. He will destroy them and bring them down before you. So you may drive them out and be quick to destroy them, just as the Lord has told you.

But after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, ‘The Lord has brought me in to take this land because I am right and good.' It is because of the sin of these nations that the Lord is driving them out in front of you.

It is not because of your being right with God that you are going to take their land. But it is because of the sin of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out in front of you. By this the Lord is proving that He keeps the promise He made to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Understand that it is not because you are right with God that the Lord your God is giving you this good land for your own, for you are a strong-willed people.

"Remember and do not forget how you made the Lord your God angry in the desert. You have gone against the Lord from the day you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place.

Then the Lord gave me the two pieces of stone written by the finger of God. On them were all the words the Lord had spoken with you on the mountain from the fire on the day of the meeting.

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up. Hurry and go down from here. For your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become very sinful. They have been quick to turn away from what I told them. They have made a false god for themselves.'

And I saw that it was true that you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a calf out of gold. You had been quick to turn away from what the Lord had told you.

The Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go and take for your own the land I have given you.' But you went against what the Lord your God told you to do. You did not believe Him or listen to His voice.

I prayed to the Lord, saying, ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, Your chosen nation, whom You have set free by Your power and brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.

So Levi does not have a share of what is given to his brothers. The Lord is his share, just as the Lord your God promised him.)

"And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you? He wants you to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him. He wants you to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul.

See, heaven and the highest heavens, the earth and all that is in it belong to the Lord your God.

For the Lord your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords. He is the great and powerful God and is to be honored with fear. He does not show favor, and cannot be bought with money.

Fear the Lord your God. Work for Him, hold on to Him, and swear by His name.

He is your praise and He is your God. You have seen the great and powerful things He has done for you.

Your fathers went to Egypt, seventy people in all. And now the Lord your God has made you as many as the stars of heaven.