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“And this land which we took at that time, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead with its towns, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites. The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, all the land of Argob, together with Bashan, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (This land is named the land of the Rephaim.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 3:12-13
“And Gilead I gave to Machir. And the land from Gilead to the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a limit, as far as the river Jabbok which is the limit of the country of the children of Ammon, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites; As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east. At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel. But your wives and your little ones…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 3:15-26
“Go up to the top of Pisgah, and turning your eyes to the west and the north, to the south and the east, see the land with your eyes: for you are not to go over Jordan.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 3:27
“But give my orders to Joshua, comforting him and making him strong; for he is to go over Jordan at the head of this people, and he will give them this land which you will see for their heritage.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 3:28
“So we were waiting in the valley facing Beth-peor.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 3:29
“For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer? And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today? Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children; That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 4:7-40
“And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them. The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb. The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here today. The word of the Lord came to you face to face on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, (I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;)…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:1-6
“You are to have no other gods but me.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:7
“You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:8
“You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:9
“And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:10
“You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged as a sinner by the Lord.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:11
“Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:12
“On six days do all your work:”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:13
“But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:14
“And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:15
“Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:16
“Do not put anyone to death without cause.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:17
“Do not be false to the married relation.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:18
“Do not take the property of another.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:19
“Do not give false witness against your neighbour;”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:20
“Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:21
“These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me. And after hearing the voice which came out of the dark while the mountain was burning with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your chiefs came to me, And said, The Lord has let us see his glory and his power, and his voice has come to us out of the fire: today we have seen that a man may go on living even after hearing the voice of God.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:22-24
“Why then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of the Lord our God comes to us any more, death will overtake us, and we will be burned up in this great fire.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:25
“For what man is there in all the earth, who, hearing the voice of the living God as we have, out of the heart of the fire, has been kept from death?”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:26
“Do you go near: and after hearing everything which the Lord our God has to say, give us an account of all he has said to you, and we will give ear, and do it.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:27
“Then the Lord, hearing your words to me, said to me, The words which this people have said to you have come to my ears: what they have said is well said.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:28
“If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:29
“Now say to them, Go back to your tents.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:30
“But as for you, keep your place here by me, and I will give you all the orders and the laws and the decisions which you are to make clear to them, so that they may do them in the land which I am giving them for their heritage.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:31
“Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 5:32
“Then you will say to your son, We were servants under Pharaoh's yoke in Egypt; and the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand:”— Moses, Deuteronomy 6:21
“And the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt, and against Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes:”— Moses, Deuteronomy 6:22
“And he took us out from that place, guiding us here to give us this land, as he said in his oath to our fathers.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 6:23
“And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 6:24
“And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 6:25
“When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you; And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them: Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 7:1-17
“Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;”— Moses, Deuteronomy 7:18
“But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 8:18
“Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said. And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 9:3-4
Speaker attribution: Clear Bible MACULA (CC BY 4.0). Wording: Bible in Basic English (public domain).