When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the <sc>Lordsc> your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.<n id="1" />p>

Then he<n id="1" /> will bring you to the land your ancestors<n id="2" /> possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

(for he<n id="1" /> is a merciful God), he will not let you down<n id="2" /> or destroy you, for he cannot<n id="3" /> forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.p>

Moreover, because he loved<n id="1" /> your ancestors, he chose their<n id="2" /> descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you<n id="1" /> and eventually bring good to you.

Look, he<n id="1" /> has placed the land in front of you!<n id="2" /> Go up, take possession of it, just as the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!&#8221;

Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number<n id="1" /> &#8211; as the <sc>Lordsc>, God of your ancestors,<n id="2" /> said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.p>

So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna.<n id="1" /> He did this to teach you<n id="2" /> that humankind<n id="3" /> cannot live by bread<n id="4" /> alone, but also by everything that comes from the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s mouth.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your ancestors,<n id="1" /> has given you to possess.<n id="2" />

Then you must inscribe on them all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey just as the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your ancestors,<n id="1" /> said to you.

The <sc>Lordsc> your God will make the labor of your hands<n id="1" /> abundantly successful and multiply your children,<n id="2" /> the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the <sc>Lordsc> your God will once more<n id="3" /> rejoice over you to make you prosperous<n id="4" /> just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;You are about to die,<n id="1" /> and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they<n id="2" /> are going. They<n id="3" /> will reject<n id="4" /> me and break my covenant that I have made with them.<n id="5" />