These are the statutes, regulations, and instructions which the Lord established between himself and the Israelites at Mount Sinai through Moses.

So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words:

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

For observing the festival is a requirement for Israel; it is an ordinance given by the God of Jacob.

Tie up the scroll as legal evidence, seal the official record of God’s instructions and give it to my followers.

“Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,

Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, until you have perished.

There will be one regulation for you, whether a foreigner or a native citizen, for I am the Lord your God.’”

Listen to the Lord’s word, you leaders of Sodom! Pay attention to our God’s rebuke, people of Gomorrah!

Tell us then, what do you think? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

Pay attention to me, my people! Listen to me, my people! For I will issue a decree, I will make my justice a light to the nations.

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

But when they came in and took possession of it, they did not obey you or live as you had instructed them. They did not do anything that you commanded them to do. So you brought all this disaster on them.

Indeed, they made their heart as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the Lord who rules over all had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the Lord who rules over all had poured out great wrath.

So the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.

When he imposed a limit for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,

He proclaims his word to Jacob, his statutes and regulations to Israel.

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.