Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord and because of these detestable things the Lord your God is about to drive them out from before you.

Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.

If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,

You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

Instead you must utterly annihilate them – the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites – just as the Lord your God has commanded you,

Whatever you vow, you must be careful to do what you have promised, such as what you have vowed to the Lord your God as a freewill offering.

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this.

So we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and he heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.

When you cross the Jordan River to the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must erect great stones and cover them with plaster.

Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: “Be quiet and pay attention, Israel. Today you have become the people of the Lord your God.

But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.

You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer – all so that you might know that I am the Lord your God!

Then if you and your descendants turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being just as I am commanding you today,

Even if your exiles are in the most distant land, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back.

when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing.

But I will certainly hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they will have done by turning to other gods.

As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.

The everlasting God is a refuge, and underneath you are his eternal arms; he has driven out enemies before you, and has said, “Destroy!”

Just as we obeyed Moses, so we will obey you. But may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses!