and serves in the name of the Lord his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.

You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.

Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, “I don’t want to marry her,”

And these other tribes must stand for the curse on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

The Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud that stood above the door of the tent.

However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land.

You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.

For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

then both parties to the controversy must stand before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges who will be in office in those days.

“The following tribes must stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today.

(I was standing between the Lord and you at that time to reveal to you the message of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:

But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them.”

At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand before the Lord to serve him, and to formulate blessings in his name, as they do to this very day.

As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The Lord listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.

The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

You stood before the Lord your God at Horeb and he said to me, “Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”