⁵⁰ All the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral^[a] and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.^(A)

¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you.^(A)

¹⁷ If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”^[a]

Hearers and Doers

²⁴ “Everyone, then, who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.^{(A) 25} The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded on rock.

^32 [a]You must diligently observe everything that I command you; do not add to it or take anything from it.^(A)

Moses Commands Obedience

4 “So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.^{(A) 2} You must neither add anything to what I command you nor take away anything from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God with which I am charging you.^(B)

⁴¹ At the end of four hundred thirty years, on that very day, all the companies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.^(A)