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

The Lord showed us great and terrible signs and miracles, which he did to Egypt, the king, and his whole family.

You are holy people who belong to the Lord your God. He has chosen you from all the people on earth to be his very own.

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.

So know that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God. He will keep his agreement of love for a thousand lifetimes for people who love him and obey his commands.

If you pay attention to these laws and obey them carefully, the Lord your God will keep his agreement and show his love to you, as he promised your ancestors.

Remember how the Lord your God has led you in the desert for these forty years, taking away your pride and testing you, because he wanted to know what was in your heart. He wanted to know if you would obey his commands.

Be careful not to forget the Lord your God so that you fail to obey his commands, laws, and rules that I am giving to you today.

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 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.

Otherwise, Egypt will say, ‘It was because the Lord was not able to take his people into the land he promised them, and it was because he hated them that he took them into the desert to kill them.'

(The people of Israel went from the wells of the Jaakanites to Moserah. Aaron died there and was buried; his son Eleazar became priest in his place.

At that time the Lord chose the tribe of Levi to carry the Ark of the Agreement with the Lord . They were to serve the Lord and to bless the people in his name, which they still do today.

The Lord owns the world and everything in it—the heavens, even the highest heavens, are his.

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

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,

or his signs and the things he did in Egypt to the king and his whole country.

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.

Serve only the Lord your God. Respect him, keep his commands, and obey him. Serve him and be loyal to him.