Study Desk

For the land you are going in to take is not like the land you came from in Egypt. There you planted your seed and watered it using your feet, like a vegetable garden.

But the land you are about to go into and take for your own is a land of hills and valleys. It drinks water from the rain of heaven.

The Lord your God cares for this land. His eyes watch over it from the beginning to the end of the year.

"Listen to and obey all the Laws I am telling you today. Love the Lord your God. Work for Him with all your heart and soul. If you do,

He will give the rain for your land at the right times, the early and late rain. So you may gather in your grain, your new wine and your oil.

He will give grass in your fields for your cattle. And you will eat and be filled.

Be careful not to let your hearts be fooled so you turn away and work for other gods and worship them.

the Lord will drive out all these nations in front of you. And you will take for your own what has belonged to nations greater and stronger than you.

"These are the Laws you should be careful to obey in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you for your own as long as you live on the earth.

Look for the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose from all your family groups. There He will make His name known, and make His home there, and there you will come.

You will not do at all the things we are doing here today, for every man is doing whatever is right in his own eyes.

For you have not yet come to the resting place and the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Be careful that you do not stop caring for the Levites as long as you live in your land.

Only be sure not to eat the blood. For the blood is the life. You must not eat the life with the flesh.

Do not eat it, so it may go well with you and your children after you. For you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

Be careful to listen to all these words I am telling you. Then it will go well with you and your children after you forever. For you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

Do not act this way toward the Lord your God. For they have done for their gods every sinful act which the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire for their gods.

do not listen to the words of that man who tells you what will happen or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is putting you to the test to see if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Follow the Lord your God and fear Him. Keep His Laws, and listen to His voice. Work for Him, and hold on to Him.

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