(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 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.

We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments before the Lord our God, just as he demands.”

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.

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?”

When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!

For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.

I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.

Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance among his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance just as the Lord your God told him.