I will personally hold responsible<n id="1" /> anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet<n id="2" /> speaks in my name.p>

then both parties to the controversy must stand before the <sc>Lordsc>, that is, before the priests and judges<n id="1" /> who will be in office in those days.

so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship<n id="1" /> their gods, causing you to sin against the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

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>

You will then eat your own offspring,<n id="1" /> the flesh of the sons and daughters the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege<n id="2" /> by which your enemies will constrict you.

In the morning you will say, &#8216;If only it were evening!&#8217; And in the evening you will say, &#8216;I wish it were morning!&#8217; because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.

but with whoever stands with us here today before the <sc>Lordsc> our God as well as those not with us here today.<n id="1" />p>

Then people will say, &#8220;Because they abandoned the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.

Therefore, you remained at Kadesh for a long time &#8211; indeed, for the full time.<n id="1" />p>

We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.<n id="1" />

These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle,<n id="1" /> the vulture,<n id="2" /> the black vulture,<n id="3" />

You must not erect a sacred pillar,<n id="1" /> a thing the <sc>Lordsc> your God detests.

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;

From Aroer,<n id="1" /> which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi),<n id="2" /> all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us &#8211; the <sc>Lordsc> our God gave them all to us.

You must fight<n id="1" /> until the <sc>Lordsc> gives your countrymen victory<n id="2" /> as he did you and they take possession of the land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.&#8221;

Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth<n id="1" /> today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.p>

houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant &#8211; and you eat your fill,

the great judgments<n id="1" /> you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power<n id="2" /> by which he<n id="3" /> brought you out &#8211; thus the <sc>Lordsc> your God will do to all the people you fear.