This took place after the defeat of King Sihon of the Amorites, whose capital was in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, whose capital was in Ashtaroth, specifically in Edrei.

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

Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.

Now these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed

a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

I prayed to him: O, Lord God, do not destroy your people, your valued property that you have powerfully redeemed, whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength.

I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

He is the one you should praise; he is your God, the one who has done these great and awesome things for you that you have seen.

the blessing if you take to heart the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today,

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.

Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the Lord will choose.

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.”

I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.

then both parties to the controversy must stand before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges who will be in office in those days.

so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.

You will celebrate all the good things that the Lord your God has given you and your family, along with the Levites and the resident foreigners among you.

You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.

but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today.

Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.