Study Desk

"If you obey the Lord your God and faithfully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, he will make you greater than any other nation on earth.

"If you obey the Lord your God and do everything he commands, he will make you his own people, as he has promised.

Then all the peoples on earth will see that the Lord has chosen you to be his own people, and they will be afraid of you.

He will send rain in season from his rich storehouse in the sky and bless all your work, so that you will lend to many nations, but you will not have to borrow from any.

The Lord your God will make you the leader among the nations and not a follower; you will always prosper and never fail if you obey faithfully all his commands that I am giving you today.

"But if you disobey the Lord your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:

Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.

Moses called together all the people of Israel and said to them, "You saw for yourselves what the Lord did to the king of Egypt, to his officials, and to his entire country.

so that the Lord may now confirm you as his people and be your God, as he promised you and your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

He is making it with all of us who stand here in his presence today and also with our descendants who are not yet born.

Make sure that there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him, even if he stubbornly goes his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.

Then the whole world will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?'

And so the Lord became angry with his people and brought on their land all the disasters written in this book.

The Lord became furiously angry, and in his great anger he uprooted them from their land and threw them into a foreign land, and there they are today.'

"There are some things that the Lord our God has kept secret; but he has revealed his Law, and we and our descendants are to obey it forever.

If you and your descendants will turn back to the Lord and with all your heart obey his commands that I am giving you today,

and you will again obey him and keep all his commands that I am giving you today.

but you will have to obey him and keep all his laws that are written in this book of his teachings. You will have to turn to him with all your heart.

If you obey the commands of the Lord your God, which I give you today, if you love him, obey him, and keep all his laws, then you will prosper and become a nation of many people. The Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are about to occupy.

Call together all the men, women, and children, and the foreigners who live in your towns, so that everyone may hear it and learn to honor the Lord your God and to obey his teachings faithfully.