Study Desk

Remember today it was not your children who saw and felt the correction of the Lord your God. They did not see his majesty, his power, his strength,

Teach them well to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

so that both you and your children will live a long time in the land the Lord promised your ancestors, as long as the skies are above the earth.

If you don't eat it, things will go well for you and your children, because you will be doing what the Lord says is right.

Be careful to obey all the rules I am giving you so that things will always go well for you and your children, and you will be doing what the Lord your God says is good and right.

You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, do not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.

and you may take everything else in the city for yourselves. Take the women, children, and animals, and you may use these things the Lord your God gives you from your enemies.

He must agree to give the older son two shares of everything he owns, even though the older son is from the wife he does not love. That son was the first to prove his father could have children, so he has the rights that belong to the older son.

Parents must not be put to death if their children do wrong, and children must not be put to death if their parents do wrong. Each person must die for his own sin.

Your children will be blessed, as well as your crops; your herds will be blessed with calves and your flocks with lambs.

The Lord will make you rich: You will have many children, your animals will have many young, and your land will give good crops. It is the land that the Lord promised your ancestors he would give to you.

Your children will be cursed, as well as your crops; the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks will be cursed.

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.

your wives and children and the foreigners who live among you, who chop your wood and carry your water.

Your children who will come after you, as well as foreigners from faraway lands, will see the disasters that come to this land and the diseases the Lord will send on it. They will say,

There are some things the Lord our God has kept secret, but there are some things he has let us know. These things belong to us and our children forever so that we will do everything in these teachings.

Then you and your children will return to the Lord your God, and you will obey him with your whole being in everything I am commanding you today.

The Lord your God will make you successful in everything you do. You will have many children, your cattle will have many calves, and your fields will produce good crops, because the Lord will again be happy with you, just as he was with your ancestors.

Today I ask heaven and earth to be witnesses. I am offering you life or death, blessings or curses. Now, choose life! Then you and your children may live.