And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?

He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

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

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

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,

if you carefully obey him by keeping all these commandments that I am giving you today.

Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today.

You must obey him and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”

“This commandment I am giving you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.

They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Now if you forget the Lord your God at all and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.

Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being,

and the curse if you pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known.

Today you have declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do.

Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

he said to them, “Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.

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

So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.