<t /><p class="bodytext">You must not put the <sc>Lordsc> your God to the test as you did at Massah.<n id="1" />

and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the <sc>Lordsc> said.p>

Moreover, you continued to provoke the <sc>Lordsc> at Taberah,<n id="1" /> Massah,<n id="2" /> and Kibroth-Hattaavah.<n id="3" />

You have been rebelling against him<n id="1" /> from the very first day I knew you!p>

Therefore, cleanse<n id="1" /> your heart and stop being so stubborn!<n id="2" />

So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Moreover, Moses commanded the people that day:

<p class="bodytext">Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon,<n id="1" /> and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites<n id="1" /> and Maacathites<n id="2" /> (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair,<n id="3" /> which it retains to this very day.)

&#8220;O, Lord <sc>Godsc>,<n id="1" /> you have begun to show me<n id="2" /> your greatness and strength.<n id="3" /> (What god in heaven or earth can rival your works and mighty deeds?)

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 invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you<n id="1" /> today that you will surely and swiftly be removed<n id="2" /> from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be<n id="3" /> annihilated.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them:<n id="1" /> &#8220;Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!

You said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> our God has shown us his great glory<n id="1" /> and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us<n id="2" /> that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.

Rather it is because of his<n id="1" /> love<n id="2" /> for you and his faithfulness to the promise<n id="3" /> he solemnly vowed<n id="4" /> to your ancestors<n id="5" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> brought you out with great power,<n id="6" /> redeeming<n id="7" /> you from the place of slavery, from the power<n id="8" /> of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

And when he<n id="1" /> sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, &#8220;Go up and possess the land I have given you,&#8221; you rebelled against the <sc>Lordsc> your God<n id="2" /> and would neither believe nor obey him.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now, Israel, what does the <sc>Lordsc> your God require of you except to revere him,<n id="1" /> to obey all his commandments,<n id="2" /> to love him, to serve him<n id="3" /> with all your mind and being,<n id="4" />

Bear in mind today that I am not speaking<n id="1" /> to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> your God, which revealed<n id="3" /> his greatness, strength, and power.<n id="4" />

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" />