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For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of rivers and wells of water, flowing into valleys from hills.

When you have eaten and are filled, you will honor and thank the Lord your God for the good land He has given you.

and when your cattle and flocks become many, and you get much silver and gold, and have many things for your own,

In the desert He fed you bread from heaven, which your fathers did not know about. He did this so you would not have pride and that He might test you. It was for your good in the end.

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.

If you ever forget the Lord your God and go to other gods to worship and work for them, I tell you today that you will be destroyed for sure.

Understand that it is not because you are right with God that the Lord your God is giving you this good land for your own, for you are a strong-willed people.

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up. Hurry and go down from here. For your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become very sinful. They have been quick to turn away from what I told them. They have made a false god for themselves.'

And I saw that it was true that you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a calf out of gold. You had been quick to turn away from what the Lord had told you.

Then again I fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights. I did not eat bread or drink water, because of all the sin you had done. You did what was sinful in the eyes of the Lord and made Him angry.

The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. So I prayed for Aaron at the same time also.

The Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go and take for your own the land I have given you.' But you went against what the Lord your God told you to do. You did not believe Him or listen to His voice.

"At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Cut out for yourself two pieces of stone like the other ones. Then come up to Me on the mountain, and make a box of wood.

At that time the Lord set apart the family of Levi to carry the special box of the Law of the Lord, and to stand before the Lord to work for Him and honor His name to this day.

He wants you to keep all the Laws of the Lord which I am telling you today for your good.

For the Lord your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords. He is the great and powerful God and is to be honored with fear. He does not show favor, and cannot be bought with money.

He does what is right and fair for the child without parents and the woman whose husband has died. He shows His love for the stranger by giving him food and clothing.

So show your love for the stranger. For you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Fear the Lord your God. Work for Him, hold on to Him, and swear by His name.

He is your praise and He is your God. You have seen the great and powerful things He has done for you.