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and when Adonai sent you off from Kadesh-Barnea by saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land I have given you,' you rebelled against the order of Adonai your God — you neither trusted him nor heeded what he said.

This is why Levi has no share or inheritance with his brothers; Adonai is his inheritance, as Adonai your God had said to him.

(v) "So now, Isra'el, all that Adonai your God asks from you is to fear Adonai your God, follow all his ways, love him and serve Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being;

See, the sky, the heaven beyond the sky, the earth and everything on it all belong to Adonai your God.

For Adonai your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty and awesome God, who has no favorites and accepts no bribes.

You are to fear Adonai your God, serve him, cling to him and swear by his name.

He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which you have seen with your own eyes.

Your ancestors went down into Egypt with only seventy people, but now Adonai your God has made your numbers as many as the stars in the sky!

"Therefore, you are to love Adonai your God and always obey his commission, regulations, rulings and mitzvot.

Today it is you I am addressing — not your children, who haven't known or experienced the discipline of Adonai your God, his greatness, his strong hand, his outstretched arm,

It is a land Adonai your God cares for. The eyes of Adonai your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

"So if you listen carefully to my mitzvot which I am giving you today, to love Adonai your God and serve him with all your heart and all your being;

(vii & Maftir) "For if you will take care to obey all these mitzvot I am giving you, to do them, to love Adonai your God, to follow all his ways and to cling to him,

No one will be able to withstand you; Adonai your God will place the fear and dread of you on all the land you step on, as he told you. Haftarah ‘Ekev: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 49:14–51:3 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah ‘Ekev: Mattityahu (Matthew) 4:1–11; Luke 4:1–13; Ya‘akov (James) 5:7–11 "See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse — the blessing, if you listen to the mitzvot of Adonai your God that I am giving you today; and the curse, if you don't listen to the mitzvot of Adonai your God, but turn aside from the way I am ordering you today and follow other gods that you have not known. "When Adonai your God brings you into the land you are entering in order to take possession of it, you are to put the blessing on Mount G'rizim and the curse on Mount ‘Eival. Both are west of the Yarden, in the direction of the sunset, in the land of the Kena‘ani living in the ‘Aravah, across from Gilgal, near the pistachio trees of Moreh. For you are to cross the Yarden to enter and take possession of the land Adonai your God is giving you; you are to own it and live in it. And you are to take care to follow all the laws and rulings I am setting before you today.

No one will be able to withstand you; Adonai your God will place the fear and dread of you on all the land you step on, as he told you. Haftarah ‘Ekev: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 49:14–51:3 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah ‘Ekev: Mattityahu (Matthew) 4:1–11; Luke 4:1–13; Ya‘akov (James) 5:7–11 "See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse —

the blessing, if you listen to the mitzvot of Adonai your God that I am giving you today;

and the curse, if you don't listen to the mitzvot of Adonai your God, but turn aside from the way I am ordering you today and follow other gods that you have not known.

"When Adonai your God brings you into the land you are entering in order to take possession of it, you are to put the blessing on Mount G'rizim and the curse on Mount ‘Eival.

For you are to cross the Yarden to enter and take possession of the land Adonai your God is giving you; you are to own it and live in it.

Here are the laws and rulings you are to observe and obey in the land Adonai , the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess as long as you live on earth.