Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or tremble before them, for the <sc>Lordsc> your God is the one who is going with you. He will not fail you or abandon you!&#8221;

<p class="poetry">Is this how you repay<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">you foolish, unwise people?p> <p class="poetry">Is he not your father, your creator?p> <p class="poetry">He has made you and established you.p>

<p class="poetry">But I fear the reaction<n id="1" /> of their enemies,p> <p class="poetry">for<n id="2" /> their adversaries would misunderstandp> <p class="poetry">and say, &#8220;Our power is great,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc> has not done all this!&#8221;&#8217;p>

He<n id="1" /> buried him in the land of Moab near Beth Peor, but no one knows his exact burial place to this very day.

But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the <sc>Lordsc> our<n id="1" /> God had made him obstinate<n id="2" /> and stubborn<n id="3" /> so that he might deliver him over to you<n id="4" /> this very day.

But the <sc>Lordsc> was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he<n id="1" /> said to me, &#8220;Enough of that!<n id="2" /> Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.

Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> your God that I am delivering to<n id="1" /> you.

(I was standing between the <sc>Lordsc> and you at that time to reveal to you the message<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:p>

You must not worship or serve them, for I, the <sc>Lordsc> your God, am a jealous God. I punish<n id="1" /> the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject<n id="2" /> me,<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said.<n id="1" /> Then he inscribed the words<n id="2" /> on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

<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.

So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna.<n id="1" /> He did this to teach you<n id="2" /> that humankind<n id="3" /> cannot live by bread<n id="4" /> alone, but also by everything that comes from the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s mouth.<n id="5" />

For the <sc>Lordsc> your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe,

Then the anger of the <sc>Lordsc> will erupt<n id="1" /> against you and he will close up the sky<n id="2" /> so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed<n id="3" /> from the good land that the Lord<n id="4" /> is about to give you.

You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment.<n id="1" /> Then the <sc>Lordsc> will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.

<t /><p class="bodytext">If a fellow Israelite<n id="1" /> from one of your villages<n id="2" /> in the land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive<n id="3" /> to his impoverished condition.<n id="4" />

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 must by all means lend<n id="1" /> to him and not be upset by doing it,<n id="2" /> for because of this the <sc>Lordsc> your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.

Three times a year all your males must appear before the <sc>Lordsc> your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him<n id="1" /> empty-handed.

Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so,<n id="1" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> has said you must never again return that way.