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He loved your fathers, so He chose their children after them. He Himself brought you from Egypt by His great power.

Keep His Laws which I am giving you today. Then it may go well with you and your children after you. And you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time."

where a person may run to, if he killed his neighbor without meaning to and had not hated him in the past. He might save his life by running to one of these cities:

They took for their own his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, east of the Jordan,

‘Do not use the name of the Lord your God in a bad way. For the Lord will punish the one who uses His name in a bad way.

‘Do not have a desire for your neighbor's wife. Do not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his man servant, his bull, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.'

And you said, ‘See, the Lord our God has shown us His shining-greatness. We have heard His voice from the center of the fire. Today we have seen that God speaks with man and man still lives.

Then you and your son and your grandson will fear the Lord your God. You will obey all His Laws that I tell you, all the days of your life. And then you will have a longer life.

You must fear the Lord your God. You must worship Him, and swear by His name.

The Lord showed us great and powerful works against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all those of his house.

"For you are a holy nation to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the nations on the earth, to be His own.

The Lord did not give you His love and choose you because you were more people than any of the nations. For the number of your people was less than all nations.

Know then that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God. He keeps His promise and shows His loving-kindness to those who love Him and keep His Laws, even to a thousand family groups in the future.

But He destroys those who hate Him. He will not show kindness to the one who hates Him, but will punish him to his face.

"If you listen to these Laws and keep and obey them, the Lord your God will keep His agreement and loving-kindness as He promised to your fathers.

You will remember all the way the Lord your God led you in the desert these forty years, so you would not have pride, and how He tested you to know what was in your heart to see if you would obey His Laws or not.

So know in your heart that the Lord your God was punishing you just as a man punishes his son.

Keep the Laws of the Lord your God. Walk in His ways, and fear Him.

"Be careful not to forget the Lord your God by not keeping all His Laws which I am telling you today.

But remember the Lord your God. For it is He Who is giving you power to become rich. By this He may keep His agreement which He promised to your fathers, as it is this day.