Study Desk

The Lord gave me two stone tablets, which God had written on with his own finger. On them were all the commands that the Lord gave to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day you were gathered there.

When I looked, I saw you had sinned against the Lord your God and had made an idol in the shape of a calf. You had quickly turned away from what the Lord had told you to do.

Then the Lord sent you away from Kadesh Barnea and said, "Go up and take the land I have given you." But you rejected the command of the Lord your God. You did not trust him or obey him.

I prayed to the Lord and said, "Lord God , do not destroy your people, your own people, whom you freed and brought out of Egypt by your great power and strength.

That is why the Levites did not receive any land of their own; instead, they received the Lord himself as their gift, as the Lord your God told them.)

Now, Israel, this is what the Lord your God wants you to do: Respect the Lord your God, and do what he has told you to do. Love him. Serve the Lord your God with your whole being,

The Lord your God is God of all gods and Lord of all lords. He is the great God, who is strong and wonderful. He does not take sides, and he will not be talked into doing evil.

Respect the Lord your God and serve him. Be loyal to him and make your promises in his name.

He is the one you should praise; he is your God, who has done great and wonderful things for you, which you have seen with your own eyes.

There were only seventy of your ancestors when they went down to Egypt, and now the Lord your God has made you as many as the stars in the sky.

Love the Lord your God and always obey his orders, rules, laws, and commands.

Remember today it was not your children who saw and felt the correction of the Lord your God. They did not see his majesty, his power, his strength,

It is a land the Lord your God cares for. His eyes are on it continually, and he watches it from the beginning of the year to the end.

If you carefully obey the commands I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with your whole being,

If you are careful to obey every command I am giving you to follow, and love the Lord your God, and do what he has told you to do, and are loyal to him,

No one will be able to stop you. The Lord your God will do what he promised and will make the people afraid everywhere you go.

You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today.

But you will be cursed if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God. So do not disobey the commands I am giving you today, and do not worship other gods you do not know.

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you will take as your own, you are to announce the blessings from Mount Gerizim and the curses from Mount Ebal.

You will soon cross the Jordan River to enter and take the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you take it over and live there,