You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day,<n id="1" /> until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations<n id="2" /> in all the places where you live.p>

When you gather in the harvest<n id="1" /> of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field,<n id="2" /> and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees<n id="1" /> &#8211; palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook &#8211; and you must rejoice before the <sc>Lordsc> your God for seven days.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;You must not make for yourselves idols,<n id="1" /> so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before<n id="2" /> it, for I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time I instructed you as follows: &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites<n id="1" /> equipped for battle.

You must fight<n id="1" /> until the <sc>Lordsc> gives your countrymen victory<n id="2" /> as he did you and they take possession of the land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.&#8221;

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" />

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.

Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he<n id="1" /> has forbidden<n id="2" /> you.

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?

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.

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,

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" />

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,

Nobody will be able to resist you; the <sc>Lordsc> your God will spread the fear and terror of you over the whole land on which you walk, just as he promised you.p>

and the curse if you pay no attention<n id="1" /> to his<n id="2" /> commandments and turn from the way I am setting before<n id="3" /> you today to pursue<n id="4" /> other gods you have not known.

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" />

Gather the people &#8211; men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages &#8211; so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the <sc>Lordsc> your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.

Then their children, who have not known this law,<n id="1" /> will also hear about and learn to fear the <sc>Lordsc> your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.&#8221;p>