¹³ So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to do, that is, ^(A)the Ten ^[a]Commandments; and ^(B)He wrote them on two tablets of stone. ¹⁴ And Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it.

¹⁵ “So ^(C)keep your souls very carefully, since you did not see any ^(D)form on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, ¹⁶ lest you ^(E)act corruptly and ^(F)make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, ¹⁷ the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of ^(G)any winged bird that flies in the sky, ¹⁸ the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth, ¹⁹ and lest you lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, ^(H)all the host of heaven, ^(I)and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which Yahweh your God has apportioned for all the peoples under the whole heaven. ²⁰ But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out of ^(J)the iron furnace, from Egypt, to ^(K)be a people for His own inheritance, as today.

²¹ “^(L)Now Yahweh was angry with me on your account and swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance. ²² For ^(M)I will die in this land, I shall not cross the Jordan, but you shall cross and take possession of this ^(N)good land. ²³ So keep yourselves, ^(O)lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God which He cut with you and ^(P)make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which Yahweh your God has commanded you. ²⁴ For Yahweh your God is a ^(Q)consuming fire, a ^(R)jealous God.

²⁵ “When you ^[b]become the father of children and children’s children and remain long in the land and ^(S)act corruptly and ^(T)make ^[c]a graven image in the form of anything and ^(U)do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God so as to provoke Him to anger, ²⁶ I ^(V)call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will ^(W)surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not prolong your days on it, but will be utterly destroyed. ²⁷ And Yahweh will ^(X)scatter you among the peoples, and you will remain few in number among the nations where Yahweh drives you. ^28 (Y)And there you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, ^(Z)wood and stone, ^(AA)which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. ^29 (AB)But from there you will seek Yahweh your God, and you will find Him, for you will search for Him ^(AC)with all your heart and all your soul. ³⁰ When you ^(AD)are in distress and all these things have come upon you, ^(AE)in the last days ^(AF)you will return to Yahweh your God and listen to His voice. ³¹ For Yahweh your God is a ^(AG)compassionate God; ^(AH)He will not fail you nor ^(AI)destroy you nor ^(AJ)forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.

³² “Indeed, ^(AK)ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the ^(AL)day that God created ^[d]man on the earth, and inquire ^(AM)from one end of the heavens to the other. ^(AN)Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it? ^33 (AO)Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and lived? ^34 (AP)Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation ^(AQ)with trials, with signs and wonders and with war and ^(AR)with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terrors, ^[e]as Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ³⁵ To you it was shown that you might know that Yahweh, He is God; ^(AS)there is no other besides Him. ^36 (AT)Out of the heavens He caused you to hear His voice ^(AU)to discipline you; and on earth He caused you to see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. ^37 [f](AV)Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them. And He ^[g](AW)personally brought you from Egypt by His great power, ³⁸ dispossessing before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and ^(AX)to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today. ³⁹ Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that ^(AY)Yahweh, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other. ^40 (AZ)So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am commanding you today, that ^(BA)it may go well with you and with your children after you, and ^(BB)that you may prolong your days on the land which Yahweh your God is giving you for all the days.”

^41 (BC)Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east toward the sunrise, ⁴² that a manslayer might flee there, who slew his neighbor ^[h]without premeditation, ^[i]not hating him previously; so he shall flee to one of these cities that he might live: ^43 (BD)Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

⁴⁴ Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel; ⁴⁵ these are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel when they came out from Egypt, ⁴⁶ across the Jordan, in the valley ^(BE)opposite Beth-peor, in the land of ^(BF)Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel struck down when they came out from Egypt. ⁴⁷ And they took possession of his land and the land of ^(BG)Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan to the east toward the sunrise, ⁴⁸ from ^(BH)Aroer, which is on the edge of the ^[j]valley of Arnon, even as far as ^(BI)Mount Sion (that is, Hermon), ⁴⁹ with all the Arabah across the Jordan to the east, even as far as the sea of the Arabah, ^[k]at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.