The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her.

(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

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

You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.

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

You must build the altar of the Lord your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.

You must inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, making them clear.”

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

He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.

Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)

“Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.

Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety,

he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant,

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.

When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel

This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

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.”