Study Desk

‘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.'

But why should we die now? For this big fire will burn us up. If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we will die.

For who of all flesh has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking from the center of the fire, as we have heard, and lived?

But you stand here by Me. And I will tell you all the Laws which you should teach them, so they may keep them in the land I give them for their own.'

"These are the Laws which the Lord your God has told me to teach you. You are to do them in the land you are going to take for your own.

Houses will be full of good things which you did not fill. There will be pools for keeping water which you did not dig, and grape vines and olive trees which you did not plant. You will eat and be filled.

Or the anger of the Lord your God will burn against you. He will destroy you from the earth. For the Lord your God Who is among you is a jealous God.

Do what is right and good in the eyes of the Lord. Then it will be well with you. And you may go in and take the good land for your own which the Lord promised to give to your fathers.

So the Lord told us to do all these Laws and to fear the Lord our God for our good always, as it is today.

"The Lord your God will bring you into the land you are taking for your own. He will drive away many nations in front of you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations bigger and stronger than you.

Do not take any of them in marriage. Do not give your daughters to their sons. And do not take their daughters for your sons.

For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will burn against you. And He will be quick to destroy you.

"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.

You will destroy all the nations the Lord your God will give to you. You will not pity them or worship their gods, for that would be a trap to you.

You will not be afraid of them. For the Lord your God is among you, a great and powerful God.

The Lord your God will drive away these nations in front of you one by one. You will not be able to destroy them in a short time, or the wild animals may become too many for you.

You must burn with fire their objects of worship. Do not want the silver or gold that is on them, or take it for yourselves. It would be a trap to you, for it is a hated thing to the Lord your God.

Do not bring a hated thing into your house. You would become hated also. But turn from it with fear and hate, for bad will come from it.