“The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

Do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God will personally fight for you.”

Then the Lord spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything – only a voice was heard.

a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.

When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.

The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

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

Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir.

Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt; therefore, I am commanding you to do all this.

a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young.

However, it was not until the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year that Moses addressed the Israelites just as the Lord had instructed him to do.

but you must sacrifice it in the evening in the place where he chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

“The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all Israel’s elders.

so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.

Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.

You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you,

Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

But the Lord was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he said to me, “Enough of that! Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.