There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open ¹  your hand to your fellow Israelites ²  who are needy and poor in your land.

Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors – a land flowing with milk and honey.”

They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan – both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east.

“I am the Lord your God, he who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery.

Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt; therefore, I am commanding you to do all this.

So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab as the Lord had said.

Then when the Lord your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you – a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

Previously the Horites ¹  lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the Lord gave them.) ² 

(That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites. ¹  The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites. ² 

“Not a single person ¹  of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

Let me please cross over to see the good land on the other side of the Jordan River – this good hill country and the Lebanon!” ¹ 

You will eat your fill and then praise the Lord your God because of the good land he has given you.

You must pursue justice alone ¹  so that you may live and inherit the land the Lord your God is giving you.

you must set apart for yourselves three cities ¹  in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.

The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases ¹  until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

Then all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger ¹  all about?”

That is why the Lord’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses ¹  written in this scroll.

Israel lives in safety, the fountain of Jacob is quite secure, ¹  in a land of grain and new wine; indeed, its heavens ²  rain down dew. ³ 

They did not see ¹  the awesome deeds he performed ²  in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land,