After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him,

You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.

But the Lord took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.

They include the Anakites, a numerous and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, “Who is able to resist the Anakites?”

“During those days the Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-Yaaqan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar became priest in his place.

Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.

His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children – this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

But when you come close to the Ammonites, do not harass or provoke them because I am not giving you any of the Ammonites’ land as your possession; I have already given it to Lot’s descendants as their possession.

Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

and that you may so revere the Lord your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you – you, your children, and your grandchildren – all your lives, to prolong your days.

In the day he divides his inheritance he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other wife’s son who is actually the firstborn.

the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons and everyone else.

These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,

and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

you must say to them, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.

Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you.

Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.