You must not make use of the name of the Lord your God for worthless purposes, for the Lord will not exonerate anyone who abuses his name that way.

But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the Lord our God we will die!

Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.

When your children ask you later on, “What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God commanded you?”

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

for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you.

Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the Lord favored and chose you – for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.

So realize that the Lord your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.

I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.

For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

You shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).

for you may do so only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas – there you may do everything I am commanding you.

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself – you must not eat the life with the meat!