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“And he has been our guide to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 26:9
“So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship:”— Moses, Deuteronomy 26:10
“And you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who is with you, will take part in your joy. When you have taken out a tenth from the tenth of all your produce in the third year, which is the year when this has to be done, give it to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and the child without a father, and the widow, so that they may have food in your towns and be full; And say before the Lord your God, I have taken all the holy things out of my house and have given them to the…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 26:11-13
“No part of these things has been used for food in a time of weeping, or put away when I was unclean, or given for the dead: I have given ear to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all you have given me orders to do.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 26:14
“So, looking down from your holy place in heaven, send your blessing on your people Israel and on the land which you have given us, as you said in your oath to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 26:15
“Today the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all these laws and decisions: so then keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul. Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice: And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders; And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 26:16-19
“Then Moses and the responsible men of Israel gave the people these orders: Keep all the orders which I have given you this day; And on the day when you go over Jordan into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, put up great stones, coating them with building-paste, And writing on them all the words of this law, after you have gone over; so that you may take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said. And when you have gone over Jordan, you are to put up these stones, as I have said to you…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 27:1-8
“Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, said to all Israel, Be quiet and give ear, O Israel; today you have become the people of the Lord your God. For this cause you are to give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and do his orders and his laws which I give you this day.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 27:9-10
“These are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for blessing the people when you have gone over Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;”— Moses, Deuteronomy 27:12
“And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;”— Moses, Deuteronomy 29:2
“Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over Jordan. The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said. The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction. The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders. Be…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 31:2-8
“And Moses said to them, At the end of every seven years, at the time fixed for the ending of debts, at the feast of tents, When all Israel has come before the Lord your God in the place named by him, let a reading be given of this law in the hearing of all Israel. Make all the people come together, men and women and children, and anyone from another country who is with you, so that hearing they may become wise in the fear of the Lord your God, and take care to do all the words of this law; And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 31:10-13
“Take this book of the law and put it by the ark of the Lord's agreement, so that it may be a witness against you. For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death? Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them. For I am certain that after my death you will give yourselves up to sin, wandering from the way which I have given you; and evil will…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 31:26-29
“Give ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take note of the words of my mouth: My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants: For I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our God be named great. He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he. They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation. Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:1-20
“They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:21
“For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:22
“I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:23
“They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:24
“Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:25
“I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:26
“But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:27
“For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them. If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future! How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up? For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges. For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:28-34
“Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:35
“For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free. And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:36-37
“Who took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of their drink offering? Let them now come to your help, let them be your salvation.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:38
“See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:39
“For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:40
“If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:41
“I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:42
“Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:43
“Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law. And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 32:46-47
“He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples. All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings. Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob. And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together. Let life not death be Reuben's, let not the number of his men be small. And this is the blessing of Judah: he said, Give ear, O Lord, to the voice of…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 33:2-29
“Or, Who will go down into the deep? (that is, to make Christ come again from the dead:)”— Moses, Romans 10:7
“But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart: that is, the word of faith of which we are the preachers:”— Moses, Romans 10:8
“As for those who are outside, God is their judge. So put away the evil man from among you.”— Moses, 1 Corinthians 5:13
“For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?”— Moses, 1 Corinthians 9:9
“As it is said in the Writings, He has sent out far and wide, he has given to the poor; his righteousness is for ever.”— Moses, 2 Corinthians 9:9
“For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law. Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith. And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them. Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:”— Moses, Galatians 3:10-13
“Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.”— Moses, Hebrews 9:20
“And Solomon said, If he is seen to be a man of good faith, not a hair of him will be touched; but if any wrongdoing is seen in him, he is to be put to death. So King Solomon sent, and they took him down from the altar. And he came and gave honour to King Solomon; and Solomon said to him, Go to your house.”— Solomon, 1 Kings 1:52-53
Speaker attribution: Clear Bible MACULA (CC BY 4.0). Wording: Bible in Basic English (public domain).