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He did not make this Agreement with our ancestors, but he made it with us, with all of us who are alive here today.

But I will be very kind for a thousand lifetimes to those who love me and obey my commands.

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.

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.

but you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, rules, and laws that you must teach the people to obey in the land I am giving them as their own."

But be careful! Do not forget the Lord , who brought you out of the land of Egypt where you were slaves.

tell them, "We were slaves to the king of Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt by his great power.

But the Lord chose you because he loved you, and he kept his promise to your ancestors. So he brought you out of Egypt by his great power and freed you from the land of slavery, from the power of the king of Egypt.

But he will pay back those people who hate him. He will destroy them, and he will not be slow to pay back those who hate him.

The Lord will take away all disease from you; you will not have the terrible diseases that were in Egypt, but he will give them to all the people who hate you.

But don't be afraid of them. Remember what the Lord your God did to all of Egypt and its king.

But the Lord your God will hand those nations over to you, confusing them until they are destroyed.

He took away your pride when he let you get hungry, and then he fed you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had ever seen. This was to teach you that a person does not live on bread alone, but by everything the Lord says.

but remember the Lord your God! It is he who gives you the power to become rich, keeping the agreement he promised to your ancestors, as it is today.

But today remember that the Lord your God goes in before you to destroy them like a fire that burns things up. He will defeat them ahead of you, and you will force them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has said.

You are going in to take the land, not because you are good and honest, but because these nations are evil. That is why the Lord your God will force them out ahead of you, to keep his promise to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

The Lord your God is giving you this good land to take as your own. But know this: It is not because you are good; you are a stubborn people.

I was afraid of the Lord 's anger and rage, because he was angry enough with you to destroy you, but the Lord listened to me again.

And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but then I prayed for Aaron, too.