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Now Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances which I am speaking today ^(F1)for you to hear, so that you may learn them and be careful to do them.

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"The LORD our God made ^(C1)a covenant with us at Horeb.

"^(C1)The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, all ^(F1)of us who are alive here today.

"The LORD spoke with you ^(C1)face to face at the mountain ^(C2)from the midst of the fire,

while ^(C1)I was standing between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; ^(C2)for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up on the mountain. ^(F1)He said,

'^(C1)I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of ^(F1)slavery.

'^(C1)You shall have no other gods besides Me.

'^(C1)You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any ^(F1)likeness of what is in heaven above ^(F2)or on the earth beneath ^(F2)or in the water under the earth.

'You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, ^(C1)inflicting the ^(F1)punishment of the fathers on the children, ^(F2)even on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

but ^(C1)showing ^(F1)favor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

'^(C1)You shall not take the name of the LORD your God ^(F1)in vain, for the LORD will not ^(F2)leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain.

'^(C1)Keep the Sabbath day to treat it as holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

'For six days you ^(F1)shall labor and do all your work,

but ^(C1)the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD your God; you shall not do any work that day, you or your son or your daughter, or your male slave or your female slave, or your ox, your donkey, or any of your cattle, or your ^(F1)resident who ^(F2)stays with you, so that your male slave and your female slave may rest as well as you.

'^(C1)And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to ^(F1)celebrate the Sabbath day.

'^(C1)Honor your father and your mother, just as the LORD your God has commanded you, ^(C2)so that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well for you on the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

'^(C1)You shall not murder.

'^(C1)You shall not commit adultery.

'^(C1)You shall not steal.

'^(C1)You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

'^(C1)You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male slave or his female slave, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.'

"These words the LORD spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, from the cloud, and from the thick darkness, with a great voice, and He added nothing more. ^(C1)He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

"And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you approached me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.

"You said, 'Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with mankind, yet he lives.

'^(C1)Now then, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer, then we will die!

'For ^(C1)who is there of ^(F1)humanity who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

'^(F1)Go near and listen to everything that the LORD our God says; then speak to us everything that the LORD our God speaks to you, and we will listen and do it.'

"Now the LORD heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me, ^(C1)and the LORD said to me, 'I have heard the sound of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.

'^(C1)If only they had such a heart in them, to fear Me and ^(C2)keep all My commandments always, so that ^(C3)it would go well with them and with their sons forever!

'Go, say to them, "Return to your tents."

'^(C1)But as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, so that they may ^(F1)follow them in the land which I am giving them to possess.'

"So you shall be careful to do just as the LORD your God has commanded you; ^(C1)you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.

"^(C1)You shall walk ^(F1)entirely in the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, ^(C2)so that you may live and that it may be well for you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.

"Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you may do them in the land where you are going over to take possession of it,

so that you, your son, and your grandson will ^(C1)fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, ^(C2)all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

"Now Israel, you shall listen and be careful to do them, so that ^(C1)it may go well for you and that you may increase greatly, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has ^(F1)promised you, in ^(C2)a land flowing with milk and honey.

"^(C1)Hear, Israel! The LORD is our God, the ^(C2)LORD is one!

"And ^(C1)you shall love the LORD your God ^(C2)with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

"^(C1)These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.

"And ^(C1)you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.

"^(C1)You shall also tie them as a ^(F1)sign to your ^(F2)hand, and they shall be as ^(F3)frontlets ^(F4)on your forehead.

"^(C1)You shall also write them on the ^(F1)doorposts of your house and on your gates.

"Then it shall come about when the LORD your God brings you into the land that He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you, ^(C1)great and splendid cities which you did not build,

and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and carved cisterns which you did not carve out, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and ^(C1)you eat and are satisfied,

be ^(F1)careful that ^(C1)you do not forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of ^(F2)slavery.

"^(C1)You shall ^(F1)fear only the LORD your God; and you shall ^(F2)worship Him and ^(C2)swear by His name.

"^(C1)You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,

for the LORD your God who is in the midst of you is a ^(C1)jealous God; so follow Him, or else the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will ^(F1)wipe you off the face of the earth.

"^(C1)You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, ^(C2)as you tested Him at Massah.

"^(C1)You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His provisions and His statutes which He has commanded you.

"You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that ^(C1)it may go well for you and that you may go in and take possession of the good land which the LORD swore to give your fathers,

by driving out all your enemies from you, as the LORD has spoken.

"^(C1)When your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What do the provisions and the statutes and the judgments mean which the LORD our God commanded you?'

then you shall say to your son, 'We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

'Moreover, the LORD provided great and terrible signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household;

He brought us out of there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.'

"So the LORD commanded us to ^(F1)follow all these statutes, ^(C1)to fear the LORD our God for our own good always and ^(C2)for our survival, as it is today.

"And ^(C1)it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to ^(F1)follow all this commandment before the LORD our God, just as He commanded us.