Study Desk

So you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

And so you will eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which He has given you.

Like the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.

So you shall know today that it is Yahweh your God who is crossing over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them, and He will subdue them before you, so that you may dispossess them and make them perish quickly, just as Yahweh has spoken to you.

"So you shall know it is not because of your righteousness that Yahweh your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Even at Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.

"So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

And Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.

"So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and the forty nights, which I did because Yahweh had said He would destroy you.

So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two tablets of stone like the former ones and went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

"So now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask from you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

So circumcise your heart, and stiffen your neck no longer.

So show love for the sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

So know this day that I am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of Yahweh your God—His greatness, His strong hand and His outstretched arm,

"You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it;

so that you may prolong your days on the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

and the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which Yahweh is giving you.

so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth.

Now you will cross the Jordan and live in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you to inherit. And He will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security.

Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.