⁵⁰ Thus all the children of Israel did; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

^15 [a]But ^(A)outside are ^(B)dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

^14 (A)You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

^17 (A)If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”

^20 (A)teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am ^(B)with you always, even to the end of the age.” ^[a]Amen.

Build on the Rock^(A)

²⁴ “Therefore ^(B)whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: ²⁵ and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

³² “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; ^(A)you shall not add to it nor take away from it.

Moses Commands Obedience

4 “Now, O Israel, listen to ^(A)the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and ^[a]possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving you. ^2 (B)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.

⁴¹ And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years—on that very same day—it came to pass that ^(A)all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.