In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the Lord our God whenever we call on him?

And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.

Moreover, at that same time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess.

Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

There you will worship gods made by human hands – wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

(for he is a merciful God), he will not let you down or destroy you, for he cannot forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.

They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan – both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east.

You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.

You must not make use of the name of the Lord your God for worthless purposes, for the Lord will not exonerate anyone who abuses his name that way.

You must not desire another man’s wife, nor should you crave his house, his field, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, or anything else he owns.”

Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

Do whatever is proper and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

When your children ask you later on, “What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God commanded you?”

He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors.

The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.

you must not fear them. You must carefully recall what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt,

Be sure you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today.

and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

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.