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loving Adonai your God, paying attention to what he says and clinging to him — for that is the purpose of your life! On this depends the length of time you will live in the land Adonai swore he would give to your ancestors Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya‘akov." Haftarah Nitzavim: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 61:10–63:9 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Nitzavim: Romans 9:30–10:13; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 12:14 –15

Adonai your God — he will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess them. Y'hoshua — he will cross over ahead of you, as Adonai has said.

Be strong, be bold, don't be afraid or frightened of them, for Adonai your God is going with you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you."

Assemble the people — the men, the women, the little ones and the foreigners you have in your towns — so that they can hear, learn, fear Adonai your God and take care to obey all the words of this Torah;

and so that their children, who have not known, can hear and learn to fear Adonai your God, for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Yarden to possess."

Then my anger will flare up, and I will abandon them and hide my face from them. They will be devoured, and many calamities and troubles will come upon them. Then they will ask, ‘Haven't these calamities come upon us because our God isn't here with us?'

"Take this book of the Torah and put it next to the ark with the covenant of Adonai your God, so that it can be there to witness against you.

"For I will proclaim the name of Adonai . Come, declare the greatness of our God!

The Rock! His work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A trustworthy God who does no wrong, he is righteous and straight.

" Adonai alone led his people; no alien god was with him.

"But Yeshurun grew fat and kicked (you grew fat, thick, gross!). He abandoned God his Maker; he scorned the Rock, his salvation.

You ignored the Rock who fathered you, you forgot God, who gave you birth.

They aroused my jealousy with a non-god and provoked me with their vanities; I will arouse their jealousy with a non-people and provoke them with a vile nation.

See now that I, yes, I, am he; and there is no god beside me. I put to death, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; no one saves anyone from my hand!

This is the blessing that Moshe, the man of God, spoke over the people of Isra'el before his death:

"Yeshurun, there is no one like God, riding through the heavens to help you, riding on the clouds in his majesty.

(vi) The God of old is a dwelling-place, with everlasting arms beneath. He expelled the enemy before you and he said, ‘Destroy!'

Haven't I ordered you, ‘Be strong, be bold'? So don't be afraid or downhearted, because Adonai your God is with you wherever you go."

to go through the camp and order the people, "Prepare provisions, because in three days you will cross this Yarden to go in and take possession of the land Adonai your God is giving you."

"Remember what Moshe the servant of Adonai ordered you: ‘ Adonai your God has let you rest and will give you this land.'