The Previous Command to Enter Canaan

1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel ^(A)on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the ^[a]plain opposite ^[b]Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. ² It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir ^(B)to Kadesh Barnea. ³ Now it came to pass ^(C)in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him as commandments to them, ^4 (D)after he had killed Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth ^(E)in^[c] Edrei.

⁵ On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying, ⁶ “The Lord our God spoke to us ^(F)in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long ^(G)enough at this mountain. ⁷ Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the ^[d]plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. ⁸ See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord ^[e]swore to your fathers—to ^(H)Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.’

Tribal Leaders Appointed^(I)

⁹ “And ^(J)I spoke to you at that time, saying: ‘I ^[f]alone am not able to bear you. ¹⁰ The Lord your God has multiplied you, ^(K)and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude. ^11 (L)May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you ^(M)as He has promised you! ^12 (N)How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints? ¹³ Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them ^[g]heads over you.’ ¹⁴ And you answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have told us to do is good.’ ¹⁵ So I took ^(O)the heads of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and ^[h]made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.

¹⁶ “Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your brethren, and ^(P)judge righteously between a man and his ^(Q)brother or the stranger who is with him. ^17 (R)You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for ^(S)the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, ^(T)bring to me, and I will hear it.’ ¹⁸ And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

Israel’s Refusal to Enter the Land^(U)

¹⁹ “So we departed from Horeb, ^(V)and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the mountains of the Amorites, as the Lord our God had commanded us. Then ^(W)we came to Kadesh Barnea. ²⁰ And I said to you, ‘You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. ²¹ Look, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the Lord God of your fathers has spoken to you; ^(X)do not fear or be discouraged.’

²² “And every one of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.’

²³ “The plan pleased me well; so ^(Y)I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe. ^24 (Z)And they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. ²⁵ They also took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying, ‘It is a ^(AA)good land which the Lord our God is giving us.’

^26 (AB)“Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; ²⁷ and you ^(AC)complained in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord ^(AD)hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. ²⁸ Where can we go up? Our brethren have ^[i]discouraged our hearts, saying, ^(AE)“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the ^(AF)Anakim there.” ’

²⁹ “Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, ^(AG)or afraid of them. ^30 (AH)The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, ³¹ and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a ^(AI)man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ ³² Yet, for all that, ^(AJ)you did not believe the Lord your God, ^33 (AK)who went in the way before you ^(AL)to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.

The Penalty for Israel’s Rebellion^(AM)

³⁴ “And the Lord heard the sound of your words, and was angry, ^(AN)and took an oath, saying, ^35 (AO)‘Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I ^[j]swore to give to your fathers, ^36 (AP)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because ^(AQ)he ^[k]wholly followed the Lord.’ ^37 (AR)The Lord was also angry with me for your sakes, saying, ‘Even you shall not go in there. ^38 (AS)Joshua the son of Nun, ^(AT)who stands before you, he shall go in there. ^(AU)Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

^39 (AV)‘Moreover your little ones and your children, who ^(AW)you say will be victims, who today ^(AX)have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. ^40 (AY)But as for you, turn and take your journey into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.’

⁴¹ “Then you answered and said to me, ^(AZ)‘We have sinned against the Lord; we will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And when everyone of you had girded on his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the mountain.

⁴² “And the Lord said to me, ‘Tell them, ^(BA)“Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.” ’ ⁴³ So I spoke to you; yet you would not listen, but ^(BB)rebelled against the command of the Lord, and ^(BC)presumptuously^[l] went up into the mountain. ⁴⁴ And the Amorites who dwelt in that mountain came out against you and chased you ^(BD)as bees do, and drove you back from Seir to Hormah. ⁴⁵ Then you returned and wept before the Lord, but the Lord would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.

^46 (BE)“So you remained in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you spent there.

The Desert Years

2 “Then we turned and ^(BF)journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, ^(BG)as the Lord spoke to me, and we ^[m]skirted Mount Seir for many days.

² “And the Lord spoke to me, saying: ³ ‘You have skirted this mountain ^(BH)long enough; turn northward. ⁴ And command the people, saying, ^(BI)“You are about to pass through the territory of ^(BJ)your brethren, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore watch yourselves carefully. ⁵ Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, ^(BK)because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. ⁶ You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.

⁷ “For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your ^[n]trudging through this great wilderness. ^(BL)These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’

⁸ “And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, away from ^(BM)Elath and Ezion Geber, we ^(BN)turned and passed by way of the Wilderness of Moab. ⁹ Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given ^(BO)Ar to ^(BP)the descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ”

^10 (BQ)(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as ^(BR)the Anakim. ¹¹ They were also regarded as ^[o]giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim. ^12 (BS)The Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their ^[p]place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave them.)

¹³ “ ‘Now rise and cross over ^(BT)the ^[q]Valley of the Zered.’ So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered. ¹⁴ And the time we took to come ^(BU)from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, ^(BV)until all the generation of the men of war ^[r]was consumed from the midst of the camp, ^(BW)just as the Lord had sworn to them. ¹⁵ For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they ^[s]were consumed.

¹⁶ “So it was, when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people, ¹⁷ that the Lord spoke to me, saying: ¹⁸ ‘This day you are to cross over at Ar, the boundary of Moab. ¹⁹ And when you come near the people of Ammon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to ^(BX)the descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ”

²⁰ (That was also regarded as a land of ^[t]giants; giants formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them ^(BY)Zamzummim, ^21 (BZ)a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. But the Lord destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, ²² just as He had done for the descendants of Esau, ^(CA)who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed ^(CB)the Horites from before them. They dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, even to this day. ²³ And ^(CC)the Avim, who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza—^(CD)the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place.)

²⁴ “ ‘Rise, take your journey, and ^(CE)cross over the River Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand ^(CF)Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin ^[u]to possess it, and engage him in battle. ^25 (CG)This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations ^[v]under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall ^(CH)tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

King Sihon Defeated^(CI)

²⁶ “And I ^(CJ)sent messengers from the Wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, ^(CK)with words of peace, saying, ^27 (CL)‘Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the road, and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left. ²⁸ You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; ^(CM)only let me pass through on foot, ^29 (CN)just as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land which the Lord our God is giving us.’

^30 (CO)“But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for ^(CP)the Lord your God ^(CQ)hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.

³¹ “And the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to ^(CR)give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess it, that you may inherit his land.’ ^32 (CS)Then Sihon and all his people came out against us to fight at Jahaz. ³³ And ^(CT)the Lord our God delivered him ^[w]over to us; so ^(CU)we defeated him, his sons, and all his people. ³⁴ We took all his cities at that time, and we ^(CV)utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining. ³⁵ We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we took. ^36 (CW)From Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and from ^(CX)the city that is in the ravine, as far as Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us; ^(CY)the Lord our God delivered all to us. ³⁷ Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon—anywhere along the River ^(CZ)Jabbok, or to the cities of the mountains, or ^(DA)wherever the Lord our God had forbidden us.

King Og Defeated^(DB)

3 “Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan; and ^(DC)Og king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle ^(DD)at Edrei. ² And the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; you shall do to him as you did to ^(DE)Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.’

³ “So the Lord our God also delivered into our hands Og king of Bashan, with all his people, and we ^[x]attacked him until he had no survivors remaining. ⁴ And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, ^(DF)all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵ All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns. ⁶ And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king ^(DG)of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. ⁷ But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.

⁸ “And at that time we took the ^(DH)land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were on this side of the Jordan, from the River Arnon to Mount ^(DI)Hermon ⁹ (the Sidonians call ^(DJ)Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir), ^10 (DK)all the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and ^(DL)all Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

^11 (DM)“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of ^(DN)the ^[y]giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in ^(DO)Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.

The Land East of the Jordan Divided^(DP)

¹² “And this ^(DQ)land, which we possessed at that time, ^(DR)from Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, and half the mountains of Gilead and ^(DS)its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites. ^13 (DT)The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of the ^[z]giants. ^14 (DU)Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, ^(DV)as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and ^(DW)called Bashan after his own name, ^[aa]Havoth Jair, to this day.)

¹⁵ “Also I gave ^(DX)Gilead to Machir. ¹⁶ And to the Reubenites ^(DY)and the Gadites I gave from Gilead as far as the River Arnon, the middle of the river as the border, as far as the River Jabbok, ^(DZ)the border of the people of Ammon; ¹⁷ the plain also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth ^(EA)as far as the east side of the Sea of the Arabah ^(EB)(the Salt Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.

¹⁸ “Then I commanded you at that time, saying: ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. ^(EC)All you men of valor shall cross over armed before your brethren, the children of Israel. ¹⁹ But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall stay in your cities which I have given you, ²⁰ until the Lord has given ^(ED)rest to your brethren as to you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God is giving them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may ^(EE)return to his possession which I have given you.’

²¹ “And ^(EF)I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so will the Lord do to all the kingdoms through which you pass. ²² You must not fear them, for ^(EG)the Lord your God Himself fights for you.’

Moses Forbidden to Enter the Land

²³ “Then ^(EH)I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying: ²⁴ ‘O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant ^(EI)Your greatness and Your ^[ab]mighty hand, for ^(EJ)what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds? ²⁵ I pray, let me cross over and see ^(EK)the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon.’

²⁶ “But the Lord ^(EL)was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me. So the Lord said to me: ‘Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter. ^27 (EM)Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift your eyes toward the west, the north, the south, and the east; behold it with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan. ²⁸ But ^(EN)command^[ac] Joshua, and encourage him and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you will see.’

²⁹ “So we stayed in ^(EO)the valley opposite Beth Peor.

Moses Commands Obedience

4 “Now, O Israel, listen to ^(EP)the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and ^[ad]possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving you. ^2 (EQ)You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. ³ Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at ^(ER)Baal Peor; for the Lord your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor. ⁴ But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.

⁵ “Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which you go to possess. ⁶ Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is ^(ES)your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

⁷ “For ^(ET)what great nation is there that has ^(EU)God^[ae] so near to it, as the Lord our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him? ⁸ And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day? ⁹ Only take heed to yourself, and diligently ^(EV)keep yourself, lest you ^(EW)forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And ^(EX)teach them to your children and your grandchildren, ¹⁰ especially concerning ^(EY)the day you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’

¹¹ “Then you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. ^12 (EZ)And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no ^[af]form; ^(FA)you only heard a voice. ^13 (FB)So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, ^(FC)the Ten Commandments; and ^(FD)He wrote them on two tablets of stone. ¹⁴ And ^(FE)the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might ^[ag]observe them in the land which you cross over to possess.

Beware of Idolatry

^15 (FF)“Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no ^(FG)form when the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, ¹⁶ lest you ^(FH)act corruptly and ^(FI)make for yourselves a carved image in the ^[ah]form of any figure: ^(FJ)the likeness of male or female, ¹⁷ the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, ¹⁸ the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth. ¹⁹ And take heed, lest you ^(FK)lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, ^(FL)all the host of heaven, you feel driven to ^(FM)worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has ^[ai]given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage. ²⁰ But the Lord has taken you and ^(FN)brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be ^(FO)His people, an inheritance, as you are this day. ²¹ Furthermore ^(FP)the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that ^(FQ)I would not cross over the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance. ²² But ^(FR)I must die in this land, ^(FS)I must not cross over the Jordan; but you shall cross over and ^[aj]possess ^(FT)that good land. ²³ Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, ^(FU)and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you. ²⁴ For ^(FV)the Lord your God is a consuming fire, ^(FW)a jealous God.

²⁵ “When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and ^(FX)do evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger, ^26 (FY)I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not ^[ak]prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed. ²⁷ And the Lord ^(FZ)will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. ²⁸ And ^(GA)there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, ^(GB)which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. ^29 (GC)But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. ³⁰ When you are in ^[al]distress, and all these things come upon you in the ^(GD)latter days, when you ^(GE)turn to the Lord your God and obey His voice ³¹ (for the Lord your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor ^(GF)destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

³² “For ^(GG)ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask ^(GH)from one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard. ^33 (GI)Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? ³⁴ Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, ^(GJ)by trials, ^(GK)by signs, by wonders, by war, ^(GL)by a mighty hand and ^(GM)an outstretched arm, ^(GN)and by great ^[am]terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ³⁵ To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord Himself is God; ^(GO)there is none other besides Him. ^36 (GP)Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. ³⁷ And because ^(GQ)He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their ^[an]descendants after them; and ^(GR)He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power, ^38 (GS)driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day. ³⁹ Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that ^(GT)the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. ^40 (GU)You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that ^[ao]it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may ^[ap]prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Cities of Refuge East of the Jordan

⁴¹ Then Moses ^(GV)set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, ^42 (GW)that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might live: ^43 (GX)Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

Introduction to God’s Law

⁴⁴ Now this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel. ⁴⁵ These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which Moses spoke to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt, ⁴⁶ on this side of the Jordan, ^(GY)in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel ^(GZ)defeated^[aq] after they came out of Egypt. ⁴⁷ And they took possession of his land and the land ^(HA)of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side of the Jordan, toward the ^[ar]rising of the sun, ^48 (HB)from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, even to Mount ^[as]Sion (that is, ^(HC)Hermon), ⁴⁹ and all the plain on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the ^(HD)slopes of Pisgah.

The Ten Commandments Reviewed^(HE)

5 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them. ^2 (HF)The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. ³ The Lord ^(HG)did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive. ^4 (HH)The Lord talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire. ^5 (HI)I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord; for ^(HJ)you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain. He said:

²² “These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And ^(ID)He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

The People Afraid of God’s Presence^(IE)

^23 (IF)“So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders. ²⁴ And you said: ‘Surely the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and ^(IG)we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he ^(IH)still lives. ²⁵ Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; ^(II)if we hear the voice of the Lord our God anymore, then we shall die. ^26 (IJ)For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? ²⁷ You go near and hear all that the Lord our God may say, and ^(IK)tell us all that the Lord our God says to you, and we will hear and do it.’

²⁸ “Then the Lord heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the Lord said to me: ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. ^(IL)They are right in all that they have spoken. ^29 (IM)Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and ^(IN)always keep all My commandments, ^(IO)that it might be well with them and with their children forever! ³⁰ Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.” ³¹ But as for you, stand here by Me, ^(IP)and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess.’

³² “Therefore you shall ^[ba]be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; ^(IQ)you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. ³³ You shall walk in ^(IR)all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live ^(IS)and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

The Greatest Commandment

6 “Now this is ^(IT)the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, ^2 (IU)that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, ^(IV)and that your days may be prolonged. ³ Therefore hear, O Israel, and ^[bb]be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may ^(IW)multiply greatly ^(IX)as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you—^(IY)‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’

^4 (IZ)“Hear, O Israel: ^[bc]The Lord our God, the Lord is one! ^5 (JA)You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, ^(JB)with all your soul, and with all your strength.

⁶ “And ^(JC)these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. ^7 (JD)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ^8 (JE)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ^9 (JF)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Caution Against Disobedience

¹⁰ “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He ^[bd]swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities ^(JG)which you did not build, ¹¹ houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—^(JH)when you have eaten and are full— ¹² then beware, lest you forget the ^(JI)Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. ¹³ You shall ^(JJ)fear the Lord your God and serve Him, and ^(JK)shall take oaths in His name. ¹⁴ You shall not go after other gods, ^(JL)the gods of the peoples who are all around you ¹⁵ (for ^(JM)the Lord your God is a jealous God ^(JN)among you), lest the anger of the Lord your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.

^16 (JO)“You shall not ^[be]tempt the Lord your God ^(JP)as you ^[bf]tempted Him in Massah. ¹⁷ You shall ^(JQ)diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you. ¹⁸ And you ^(JR)shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the Lord swore to your fathers, ^19 (JS)to cast out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken.

^20 (JT)“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the Lord our God has commanded you?’ ²¹ then you shall say to your son: ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt ^(JU)with a mighty hand; ²² and the Lord showed signs and wonders before our eyes, great and severe, against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household. ²³ Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He ^[bg]swore to our fathers. ²⁴ And the Lord commanded us to ^[bh]observe all these ^[bi]statutes, ^(JV)to fear the Lord our God, ^(JW)for our good always, that ^(JX)He might preserve us alive, as it is ^[bj]this day. ²⁵ Then ^(JY)it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.’

A Chosen People^(JZ)

7 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to ^(KA)possess, and has cast out many ^(KB)nations before you, ^(KC)the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, ² and when the Lord your God delivers ^(KD)them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. ^(KE)You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. ^3 (KF)Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. ⁴ For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; ^(KG)so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. ⁵ But thus you shall deal with them: you shall ^(KH)destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their ^[bk]wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

⁶ “For you are a ^[bl]holy people to the Lord your God; ^(KI)the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. ⁷ The Lord did not set His ^(KJ)love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were ^(KK)the least of all peoples; ⁸ but ^(KL)because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep ^(KM)the oath which He swore to your fathers, ^(KN)the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of ^[bm]bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

⁹ “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, ^(KO)the faithful God ^(KP)who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; ¹⁰ and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not ^[bn]be ^(KQ)slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. ¹¹ Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

Blessings of Obedience^(KR)

¹² “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. ¹³ And He will ^(KS)love you and bless you and ^[bo]multiply you; ^(KT)He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He ^[bp]swore to your fathers to give you. ¹⁴ You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female ^(KU)barren among you or among your livestock. ¹⁵ And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the ^(KV)terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. ¹⁶ Also you shall ^[bq]destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will ^(KW)be a snare to you.

¹⁷ “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’— ¹⁸ you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall ^(KX)remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: ^19 (KY)the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. ^20 (KZ)Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. ²¹ You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you. ²² And the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you ^(LA)little by little; you will be unable to ^[br]destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. ²³ But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed. ²⁴ And ^(LB)He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; ^(LC)no one shall be able to stand ^[bs]against you until you have destroyed them. ²⁵ You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not ^(LD)covet^[bt] the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. ²⁶ Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, ^(LE)for it is an ^[bu]accursed thing.

Remember the Lord Your God

8 “Every commandment which I command you today ^(LF)you must ^[bv]be careful to observe, that you may live and ^(LG)multiply,^[bw] and go in and possess the land of which the Lord ^[bx]swore to your fathers. ² And you shall remember that the Lord your God ^(LH)led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and ^(LI)test you, ^(LJ)to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. ³ So He humbled you, ^(LK)allowed you to hunger, and ^(LL)fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall ^(LM)not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. ^4 (LN)Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. ^5 (LO)You should ^[by]know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.

⁶ “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, ^(LP)to walk in His ways and to fear Him. ⁷ For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, ^(LQ)a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; ⁸ a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; ⁹ a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. ^10 (LR)When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.

¹¹ “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, ^12 (LS)lest—when you have eaten and are ^[bz]full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; ¹³ and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are ^[ca]multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; ^14 (LT)when your heart ^[cb]is lifted up, and you ^(LU)forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; ¹⁵ who ^(LV)led you through that great and terrible wilderness, ^(LW)in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; ^(LX)who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; ¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with ^(LY)manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, ^(LZ)to do you good in the end— ¹⁷ then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’

¹⁸ “And you shall remember the Lord your God, ^(MA)for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, ^(MB)that He may ^[cc]establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. ¹⁹ Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, ^(MC)I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. ²⁰ As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, ^(MD)so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.

Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed^(ME)

9 “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, ² a people great and tall, the ^(MF)descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’ ³ Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who ^(MG)goes over before you as a ^(MH)consuming fire. ^(MI)He will destroy them and bring them down before you; ^(MJ)so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you.

^4 (MK)“Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is ^(ML)because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you. ^5 (MM)It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may ^[cd]fulfill the ^(MN)word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ⁶ Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a ^(MO)stiff-necked^[ce] people.

⁷ “Remember! Do not forget how you ^(MP)provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. ^(MQ)From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. ⁸ Also ^(MR)in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you. ^9 (MS)When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and ^(MT)forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. ^10 (MU)Then the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire ^(MV)in^[cf] the day of the assembly. ¹¹ And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

¹² “Then the Lord said to me, ^(MW)‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have ^(MX)quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’

¹³ “Furthermore ^(MY)the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed ^(MZ)they are a ^[cg]stiff-necked people. ^14 (NA)Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and ^(NB)blot out their name from under heaven; ^(NC)and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

^15 (ND)“So I turned and came down from the mountain, and ^(NE)the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. ¹⁶ And ^(NF)I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. ¹⁷ Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and ^(NG)broke them before your eyes. ¹⁸ And I ^(NH)fell^[ch] down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. ^19 (NI)For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. ^(NJ)But the Lord listened to me at that time also. ²⁰ And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. ²¹ Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I ^(NK)threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

²² “Also at ^(NL)Taberah and ^(NM)Massah and ^(NN)Kibroth Hattaavah you ^[ci]provoked the Lord to wrath. ²³ Likewise, ^(NO)when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and ^(NP)you did not believe Him nor obey His voice. ^24 (NQ)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

^25 (NR)“Thus I ^[cj]prostrated myself before the Lord; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the Lord had said He would destroy you. ²⁶ Therefore I prayed to the Lord, and said: ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and ^(NS)Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ²⁷ Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin, ²⁸ lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.” ²⁹ Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’

The Second Pair of Tablets^(NT)

10 “At that time the Lord said to me, ^[ck]‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ^(NU)ark of wood. ² And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and ^(NV)you shall put them in the ark.’

³ “So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. ⁴ And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten ^[cl]Commandments, ^(NW)which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. ⁵ Then I turned and ^(NX)came down from the mountain, and ^(NY)put the tablets in the ark which I had made; ^(NZ)and there they are, just as the Lord commanded me.”

⁶ (Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron ^(OA)died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his ^[cm]stead. ^7 (OB)From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of ^[cn]rivers of water. ⁸ At that time ^(OC)the Lord ^[co]separated the tribe of Levi ^(OD)to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, ^(OE)to stand before the Lord to minister to Him and ^(OF)to bless in His name, to this day. ^9 (OG)Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, just as the Lord your God promised him.)

¹⁰ “As at the first time, ^(OH)I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; ^(OI)the Lord also heard me at that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you. ^11 (OJ)Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

The Essence of the Law

¹² “And now, Israel, ^(OK)what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to ^(OL)love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³ and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today ^(OM)for your ^[cp]good? ¹⁴ Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the ^(ON)Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it. ¹⁵ The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their ^[cq]descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. ¹⁶ Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your ^(OO)heart, and be ^(OP)stiff-necked^[cr] no longer. ¹⁷ For the Lord your God is ^(OQ)God of gods and ^(OR)Lord of lords, the great God, ^(OS)mighty and awesome, who ^(OT)shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. ^18 (OU)He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. ¹⁹ Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. ^20 (OV)You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name. ²¹ He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. ²² Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Love and Obedience Rewarded

11 “Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always. ² Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the ^[cs]chastening of the Lord your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm— ³ His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land; ⁴ what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: ^(OW)how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day; ⁵ what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place; ⁶ and ^(OX)what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was ^[ct]in their possession, in the midst of all Israel— ⁷ but your eyes have ^(OY)seen every great ^[cu]act of the Lord which He did.

⁸ “Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may ^(OZ)be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess, ⁹ and ^(PA)that you may prolong your days in the land ^(PB)which the Lord ^[cv]swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ^(PC)‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’ ¹⁰ For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden; ^11 (PD)but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, ¹² a land for which the Lord your God cares; ^(PE)the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.

¹³ ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly ^[cw]obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹⁴ then ^(PF)I^[cx] will give you the rain for your land in its season, ^(PG)the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. ^15 (PH)And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may ^(PI)eat and be ^[cy]filled.’ ¹⁶ Take heed to yourselves, ^(PJ)lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and ^(PK)serve other gods and worship them, ¹⁷ lest ^(PL)the Lord’s anger be aroused against you, and He ^(PM)shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and ^(PN)you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

¹⁸ “Therefore ^(PO)you shall ^[cz]lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your ^(PP)soul, and ^(PQ)bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ^19 (PR)You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ^20 (PS)And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, ²¹ that ^(PT)your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like ^(PU)the days of the heavens above the earth.

²² “For if ^(PV)you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and ^(PW)to hold fast to Him— ²³ then the Lord will ^(PX)drive out all these nations from before you, and you will ^(PY)dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves. ^24 (PZ)Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: ^(QA)from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the ^[da]Western Sea, shall be your territory. ²⁵ No man shall be able to ^(QB)stand ^[db]against you; the Lord your God will put the ^(QC)dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.

^26 (QD)“Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: ^27 (QE)the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; ²⁸ and the ^(QF)curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known. ²⁹ Now it shall be, when the Lord your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the ^(QG)blessing on Mount Gerizim and the ^(QH)curse on Mount Ebal. ³⁰ Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, ^(QI)beside the terebinth trees of Moreh? ³¹ For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it. ³² And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.