Do not think to yourself after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, “Because of my own righteousness the Lord has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the Lord, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”

Instruct these people as follows: ‘You are about to cross the border of your relatives the descendants of Esau, who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid of you, so watch yourselves carefully.

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.”

Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being,

You will celebrate all the good things that the Lord your God has given you and your family, along with the Levites and the resident foreigners among you.

At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.

The Lord your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.

If you refrain from making a vow, it will not be sinful.

If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples – as is apparent today.

As for the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.

He commanded them: “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts, at the Feast of Temporary Shelters,

The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.

I will get revenge and pay them back at the time their foot slips; for the day of their disaster is near, and the impending judgment is rushing upon them!”

All along the way I, the Lord your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”

Thus you must obey the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving you today and doing what is right before him.

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