Therefore, cleanse ¹  your heart and stop being so stubborn! ² 

Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.

You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him.

The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the Lord face to face. ¹ 

Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!

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!

But the Lord was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he ¹  said to me, “Enough of that! ²  Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.

You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza ¹  and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin ²  forever – it must never be rebuilt again.

Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, ¹  for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.

This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the Lord your God: “Please do not make us hear the voice of the Lord our ¹  God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”

and then you are careful to observe all these commandments ¹  I am giving ²  you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities ³  to these three.

Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, ¹  and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’