“The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

“Then we set out from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness that you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the Lord our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is about to give us.

And they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us. They also brought us back a report and said, ‘The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.’

“Then you replied to me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord; we ourselves will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every man of you strapped on his weapons of war, and you viewed it as easy to go up into the hill country.

just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving us.’

And the Lord our God turned him over to us, and we defeated him with his sons and all his people.

From Aroer which is on the edge of the Valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that was too high for us; the Lord our God turned it all over to us.

Only you did not go near the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had commanded us to avoid.

So the Lord our God also handed over to us Og, king of Bashan, with all his people, and we struck them until no survivor was left.

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as is the Lord our God whenever we call on Him?

The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

You said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with mankind, yet he lives.

Now then, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, then we will die!

Go near and listen to everything that the Lord our God says; then speak to us everything that the Lord our God speaks to you, and we will listen and do it.’

“Hear, Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!

“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the provisions and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?’

So the Lord commanded us to follow all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God for our own good always and for our survival, as it is today.

And it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to follow all this commandment before the Lord our God, just as He commanded us.

And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord my God that I have entered the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’

Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our wretched condition, our trouble, and our oppression;

but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God, and with those who are not with us here today

so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, so that we may follow all the words of this Law.

For I proclaim the name of the Lord; Ascribe greatness to our God!