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I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.

Then the Lord said to Aaron: You shall have no allotment in their land, nor shall you have any share among them; I am your share and your possession among the Israelites.

But the donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, which you have ridden all your life to this day? Have I been in the habit of treating you this way?" And he said, "No."

Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?"

So now, I am going to my people; let me advise you what this people will do to your people in days to come."

At that time I said to you, "I am unable by myself to bear you.

The Lord said to me, "Say to them, ‘Do not go up and do not fight, for I am not in the midst of you; otherwise you will be defeated by your enemies.'"

So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord , the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

You must neither add anything to what I command you nor take away anything from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God with which I am charging you.

And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?

For I am going to die in this land without crossing over the Jordan, but you are going to cross over to take possession of that good land.

Keep his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today for your own well-being and that of your descendants after you, so that you may long remain in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.

Moses convened all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I am addressing to you today; you shall learn them and observe them diligently.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me,

But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, the statutes and the ordinances, that you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess."

so that you and your children and your children's children may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life, and keep all his decrees and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long.

Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart.

Therefore, observe diligently the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that I am commanding you today.

Take care that you do not forget the Lord your God, by failing to keep his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I am commanding you today.