Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.

So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.

You will eat your fill and then praise the Lord your God because of the good land he has given you.

when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,

They are your people, your valued property, whom you brought out with great strength and power.

and to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?

The heavens – indeed the highest heavens – belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it.

I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the Lord!

Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.

You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone doing what seems best to him,

Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,

These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress – as the Lord your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

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

You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you,

You must cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.

Every one of you must give as you are able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.

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