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

Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month he brought you out of Egypt by night.

Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

You and your household must eat them annually before the Lord your God in the place he chooses.

You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the Lord your God.

You must not worship or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. I punish the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject me,

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

When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!

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

The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

and the sign or wonder should come to pass concerning what he said to you, namely, “Let us follow other gods” – gods whom you have not previously known – “and let us serve them.”

You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.

They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

Both you and your families must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.

When you make a vow to the Lord your God you must not delay in fulfilling it, for otherwise he will surely hold you accountable as a sinner.

The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb and said, “You have stayed in the area of this mountain long enough.

The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

Then I said to you, “You have come to the Amorite hill country which the Lord our God is about to give us.

the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons and everyone else.