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">&#8220;Because you have not served the <sc>Lordsc> your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt<n id="1" /> that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses went<n id="1" /> and spoke these words<n id="2" /> to all Israel.

The <sc>Lordsc> will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.p>

<p class="poetry">Surely he loves the people;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all your holy ones<n id="2" /> are in your power.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">And they sit<n id="4" /> at your feet,p> <p class="poetry">each receiving<n id="5" /> your words.p>

We captured all his cities at that time &#8211; there was not a town we did not take from them &#8211; sixty cities, all the region of Argob,<n id="1" /> the dominion of Og in Bashan.

I also commanded Joshua at the same time, &#8220;You have seen everything the <sc>Lordsc> your God did to these two kings; he<n id="1" /> will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going.<n id="2" />

but the seventh day is the Sabbath<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you,<n id="2" /> so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.

You go near so that you can hear everything the <sc>Lordsc> our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he<n id="1" /> says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.&#8221;

If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey<n id="1" /> all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

and that you may so revere the <sc>Lordsc> your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments<n id="1" /> that I am giving<n id="2" /> you &#8211; you, your children, and your grandchildren &#8211; all your lives, to prolong your days.

or what he did to Dathan and Abiram,<n id="1" /> sons of Eliab the Reubenite,<n id="2" /> when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp<n id="3" /> and swallowed them, their families,<n id="4" /> their tents, and all the property they brought with them.<n id="5" />

Now, if you pay close attention<n id="1" /> to my commandments that I am giving you today and love<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God and serve him with all your mind and being,<n id="3" />

For if you carefully observe all of these commandments<n id="1" /> I am giving you<n id="2" /> and love the <sc>Lordsc> your God, live according to his standards,<n id="3" /> and remain loyal to him,

You must by all means destroy<n id="1" /> all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods &#8211; on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.<n id="2" />

Then you must come to the place the <sc>Lordsc> your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing<n id="1" /> everything I am commanding you &#8211; your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared,<n id="2" /> and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.<n id="3" />

<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.