The Lord your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

“Today you are to pass by the region of Moab at Ar.

but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are still alive today.

And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.

Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.

The Ten Commandments

Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them.

It was not with our ancestors that the Lord made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today.

And you said, “The Lord our God has shown us his glory and his majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them.

These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.

The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today.

Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.

Do Not Forget the Lord

Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.

But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.

But be assured today that the Lord your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the Lord has promised you.

At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister and to pronounce blessings in his name, as they still do today.

and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today.

Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm;

Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,

So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul—

See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse—

the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today;

the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.