When you look up<n id="1" /> to the sky<n id="2" /> and see the sun, moon, and stars &#8211; the whole heavenly creation<n id="3" /> &#8211; you must not be seduced to worship and serve them,<n id="4" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> your God has assigned<n id="5" /> them to all the people<n id="6" /> of the world.<n id="7" />

Or has God<n id="1" /> ever before tried to deliver<n id="2" /> a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments,<n id="3" /> signs, wonders, war, strength, power,<n id="4" /> and other very terrifying things like the <sc>Lordsc> your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must destroy<n id="1" /> all the people whom the <sc>Lordsc> your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship<n id="2" /> their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

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.

Then I again fell down before the <sc>Lordsc> for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the <sc>Lordsc> as to enrage him.

Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the <sc>Lordsc> your God.p>

Thus you must obey the <sc>Lordsc> your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving<n id="1" /> you today and doing what is right<n id="2" /> before him.<n id="3" />p>

Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude<n id="1" /> be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite<n id="2" /> and you do not lend<n id="3" /> him anything; he will cry out to the <sc>Lordsc> against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.<n id="4" />

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice<n id="1" /> the time of a hired worker; the <sc>Lordsc> your God will bless you in everything you do.p>

Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you &#8211; in one of your villages<n id="1" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you &#8211; who sins before the Lord your God<n id="2" /> and breaks his covenant

<p class="bodytext">If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive<n id="1" /> in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face.<n id="1" /> She will then respond, &#8220;Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother&#8217;s family line!&#8221;<n id="2" />

Likewise, the most<n id="1" /> tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness,<n id="2" /> will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the <sc>Lordsc> will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows: &#8220;You have seen all that the <sc>Lordsc> did<n id="1" /> in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land.

Then Moses called out to Joshua<n id="1" /> in the presence of all Israel, &#8220;Be strong and courageous, for you will accompany these people to the land that the <sc>Lordsc> promised to give their ancestors,<n id="2" /> and you will enable them to inherit it.

For I know that after I die you will totally<n id="1" /> corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly<n id="2" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>, inciting him to anger because of your actions.&#8221;<n id="3" />