If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.

Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!

Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and then rejects her,

Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way from Egypt,

You will go insane from seeing all this.

Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!

Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the Lord chooses

Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.

If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”

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

Be careful not to say, “My own ability and skill have gotten me this wealth.”

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.

Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!

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

Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ –

Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you left Egypt.

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

“Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,