So we settled down in the valley opposite Beth Peor.

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.

including all the Arabah of the Transjordan in the east to the sea of the Arabah, beneath the watershed of Pisgah.)

So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.

They are your people, your valued property, whom you brought out with great strength and power.

However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.

For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

Just like the nations the Lord is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you because you would not obey him.

Then he said to me, “Get up, set out leading the people so they may go and possess the land I promised to give to their ancestors.”

(13:1) You must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!

The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor should a man dress up in women’s clothing, for anyone who does this is offensive to the Lord your God.

‘Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

“Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.

Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or tremble before them, for the Lord your God is the one who is going with you. He will not fail you or abandon you!”

Cry out, O nations, with his people, for he will avenge his servants’ blood; he will take vengeance against his enemies, and make atonement for his land and people.

You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”