Study Desk

Today you have said that the Lord is your God, and you have promised to do what he wants you to do—to keep his rules, commands, and laws. You have said you will obey him.

And today the Lord has said that you are his very own people, as he has promised you. But you must obey his commands.

Obey the Lord your God, and keep his commands and laws that I give you today."

"Anyone will be cursed who dishonors his father or mother." Then all the people will say, "Amen!"

"A man will be cursed who has sexual relations with his father's wife, because it is a dishonor to his father." Then all the people will say, "Amen!"

"A man will be cursed who has sexual relations with his sister, whether she is his father's daughter or his mother's daughter." Then all the people will say, "Amen!"

"A man will be cursed who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law." Then all the people will say, "Amen!"

You must completely obey the Lord your God, and you must carefully follow all his commands I am giving you today. Then the Lord your God will make you greater than any other nation on earth.

The Lord will make you his holy people, as he promised. But you must obey his commands and do what he wants you to do.

The Lord will open up his heavenly storehouse so that the skies send rain on your land at the right time, and he will bless everything you do. You will lend to other nations, but you will not need to borrow from them.

But if you do not obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands and laws I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and stay:

Even the most gentle and kind man among you will become cruel to his brother, his wife whom he loves, and his children who are still alive.

He will not even give them any of the flesh of his children he is eating, because it will be all he has left. Your enemy will surround you and make you starve in all your cities.

This will make you today his own people. He will be your God, as he told you and as he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

The Lord will not forgive them. His anger will be like a burning fire against those people, and all the curses written in this book will come on them. The Lord will destroy any memory of them on the earth.

And you will again obey the Lord , keeping all his commands that I give you today.

But you must obey the Lord your God by keeping all his commands and rules that are written in this Book of the Teachings. You must return to the Lord your God with your whole being.

I command you today to love the Lord your God, to do what he wants you to do, and to keep his commands, his rules, and his laws. Then you will live and grow in number, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to take as your own.

They have done evil against him. To their shame they are no longer his children; they are an evil and lying people.

The Lord took his people as his share, the people of Jacob as his very own.