They will besiege all of your villages<n id="1" /> until all of your high and fortified walls collapse &#8211; those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you.

But if you seek the <sc>Lordsc> your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.<n id="1" />

You must love<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God with your whole mind,<n id="2" /> your whole being,<n id="3" /> and all your strength.<n id="4" />p>

Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,

You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the <sc>Lordsc> will drive you.p>

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now, Israel, what does the <sc>Lordsc> your God require of you except to revere him,<n id="1" /> to obey all his commandments,<n id="2" /> to love him, to serve him<n id="3" /> with all your mind and being,<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the <sc>Lordsc> your God blesses you<n id="1" /> in all your villages.<n id="2" /> Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the <sc>Lordsc> our God whenever we call on him?

Walk just as he<n id="1" /> has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long<n id="2" /> in the land you are going to possess.p>

The <sc>Lordsc> will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.p>

Both you and your families<n id="1" /> must feast there before the <sc>Lordsc> your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he<n id="2" /> has blessed you.

There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land<n id="1" /> for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must appoint judges and civil servants<n id="1" /> for each tribe in all your villages<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.<n id="3" />

You will celebrate all the good things that the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you and your family,<n id="1" /> along with the Levites and the resident foreigners among you.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Today the <sc>Lordsc> your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.<n id="1" />

Then if you and your descendants<n id="1" /> turn to the <sc>Lordsc> your God and obey him with your whole mind and being<n id="2" /> just as<n id="3" /> I am commanding you today,

The <sc>Lordsc> your God will also cleanse<n id="1" /> your heart and the hearts of your descendants<n id="2" /> so that you may love him<n id="3" /> with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

and in the desert, where you saw him<n id="1" /> carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.&#8221;

All along the way I, the <sc>Lordsc> your God,<n id="1" /> have blessed your every effort.<n id="2" /> I have<n id="3" /> been attentive to<n id="4" /> your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have<n id="5" /> been with you; you have lacked for nothing.&#8217;&#8221;p>