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Adonai your God will expel those nations ahead of you little by little; you can't put an end to them all at once, or the wild animals will become too numerous for you.

You are to burn up completely the carved statues of their gods. Don't be greedy for the silver or gold on them; don't take it with you, or you will be trapped by it; for it is abhorrent to Adonai your God.

Don't bring something abhorrent into your house, or you will share in the curse that is on it; instead, you are to detest it completely, loathe it utterly; for it is set apart for destruction.

For Adonai your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs and water welling up from the depths in valleys and on hillsides.

a land where you will eat food in abundance and lack nothing in it; a land where the stones contain iron and the hills can be mined for copper.

So you will eat and be satisfied, and you will bless Adonai your God for the good land he has given you.

who led you through the vast and fearsome desert, with its poisonous snakes, scorpions and waterless, thirsty ground; who brought water out of flint rock for you;

Therefore, understand that it is not for your righteousness that Adonai your God is giving you this good land to possess. "For you are a stiffnecked people!

Then I fell down before Adonai , as I had the first time, for forty days and nights, during which time I neither ate food nor drank water, all because of the sin you committed by doing what was evil in the sight of Adonai and thus provoking him.

In addition, Adonai was very angry with Aharon and would have destroyed him; but I prayed for Aharon also at the same time.

"So I fell down before Adonai for those forty days and nights; and I lay there; because Adonai had said he would destroy you.

At that time Adonai set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark for the covenant of Adonai and to stand before Adonai to serve him and to bless in his name, as they still do today.

to obey, for your own good, the mitzvot and regulations of Adonai which I am giving you today.

For Adonai your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty and awesome God, who has no favorites and accepts no bribes.

He secures justice for the orphan and the widow; he loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which you have seen with your own eyes.

They didn't experience what he kept doing for you in the desert until you arrived at this place;

(vi) "For the land you are entering in order to take possession of it isn't like the land of Egypt. There you would sow your seed and had to use your feet to operate its irrigation system, as in a vegetable garden.

It is a land Adonai your God cares for. The eyes of Adonai your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

and I will give your fields grass for your livestock; with the result that you will eat and be satisfied.'