Chapter 4

Advantages of Fidelity. ¹ Now therefore, Israel, hear the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.^(A)

¹⁰ but showing love down to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

²⁹ Would that they might always be of such a mind, to fear me and to keep all my commandments! Then they and their descendants would prosper forever. ³⁰ Go, tell them: Return to your tents. ³¹ Then you stand here near me and I will give you all the commandments, the statutes and the ordinances; you must teach them, that they may observe them in the land I am giving them to possess.^(A)

³² Be careful, therefore, to do as the Lord, your God, has commanded you, not turning aside to the right or to the left, ³³ but following exactly the way that the Lord, your God, commanded you that you may live and prosper, and may have long life in the land which you are to possess.^(B)

² so that you, that is, you, your child, and your grandchild, may fear the Lord, your God, by keeping, as long as you live, all his statutes and commandments^(A) which I enjoin on you, and thus have long life.