And now, O Israel, listen to the  ¹statutes and the  ¹ordinances which I am teaching you to do, in order that you may live and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you.

Yours are the eyes that have seen that which Jehovah has done in Baal-peor; for all the men who went after Baal-peor, Jehovah your God has destroyed from your midst.

But you who joined yourselves to Jehovah your God are alive, all of you, today.

See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as Jehovah my God commanded me, so that you would do them within the land which you are going in to possess.

Keep and do them therefore; for this will be your wisdom and prudence in the sight of the peoples who hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and prudent people.

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as Jehovah our God is whenever we  ¹call upon Him?

And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I am setting before you today?

But be careful and guard your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; rather, make them known to your children and to your grandchildren.

Especially do not forget the day when you stood before Jehovah your God at Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live upon the earth and may teach their children as much.

And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain; and the mountain was burning with fire up into the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and deep darkness there.

And Jehovah spoke to you from the midst of the fire. The sound of words could you hear, but no form could you see; there was only a voice.

And He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to do, ten  ¹commandments; and He wrote them upon two tablets of stone.

And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to do in the land which you are about to cross over into to possess.

So take careful heed to your souls, for you did not see any form at all on the day when Jehovah spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,

So that you do not spoil yourselves and make for yourselves an idol, a form of any image, a figure of male or female,

A figure of any animal which is on the earth, a figure of any winged bird which flies in the sky,

A figure of anything that crawls on the ground, a figure of any fish that is in the water under the earth;

And take heed that, when you lift up your eyes to the sky and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you are not drawn away in worship to them and that you do not serve them, which Jehovah your God has assigned to all the peoples under all heaven.

But Jehovah has taken you and brought you forth from the iron furnace, from Egypt, that you would be to Him a people for His inheritance, as you are this day.

But Jehovah was angry with me on your account and swore that I would not cross over the Jordan and that I would not enter the good land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance.

For I am to die in this land; I am not to cross over the Jordan. But you are crossing over and you will possess this good land.

Take heed to yourselves that you do not forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He has made with you, and make for yourselves an idol, the form of anything, which Jehovah your God has forbidden you to make.

For Jehovah your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

When you have brought forth children and grandchildren and have  ¹languished in the land, and you have spoiled yourselves by making an idol, the form of anything, and have done that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God so as to anger Him;

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that surely you will soon perish from off the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess; you will not extend your days upon it, but you will be utterly destroyed.

And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations to which Jehovah will drive you.

And there you will serve gods which are the work of human hands, mere wood and stone, which do not see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

And from there you will seek Jehovah your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

When you are in distress and all these things happen to you, when you are in the last days, you will return to Jehovah your God and listen to His voice.

For Jehovah your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor let you perish nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.

For ask now regarding the former days, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, Has anything as great as this ever happened, or has anything like this ever been heard of?

Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and lived?

Has God ever ventured to go and take to Himself a nation from the midst of another nation by trials, by signs and wonders, and by war and a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, like all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

You were shown these things that you might know that it is Jehovah who is God; there is no other besides Him.

From heaven He let you hear His voice that He might discipline you, and upon the earth He showed you His great fire, and His words you heard from the midst of the fire.

And because He loved your fathers, He chose their seed after them and brought you out by His presence, by His great power, from Egypt,

Driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as it is today.

Know therefore today and bring it to heart that Jehovah is God in heaven above and upon the earth below; there is no other.

Therefore keep His statutes and His commandments, which I am commanding you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, so that you may extend your days upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you  ¹forever.

Then Moses set apart three  ¹cities across the Jordan toward the rising of the sun,

That the manslayer might flee there, who slays his neighbor without intent and did not hate him previously, and in fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the Plateau, belonging to the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.

And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;

These are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they had gone out from Egypt,

Across the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel slew when they had gone out from Egypt.

And they possessed his land and the land of Og the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan toward the rising of the sun,

From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even unto Mount  ¹Sirion, that is, Hermon,

And all the Arabah across the Jordan on the east even to the  ¹sea of the Arabah at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.

And Moses called all Israel and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking in your hearing today, and learn them and keep them, so that you may do them.

Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

Not with our fathers did Jehovah make this covenant, but with  ¹us, we who are all here alive today.

Face to face Jehovah spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire —

I was standing between Jehovah and you at that time to declare to you the word of Jehovah, for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up to the mountain — saying,

 ¹I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house;

You shall have no other gods  ¹before Me.

You shall not make for yourself an idol, the form of anything that is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water beneath the earth.

You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them; for I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Yet showing lovingkindness to thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold guiltless him who takes His name in vain.

Keep the Sabbath day so as to sanctify it, as Jehovah your God has commanded you.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work, you nor your son nor your daughter nor your male servant nor your female servant nor your ox nor your donkey nor any of your cattle nor the sojourner with you who is within your gates, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as you do.

And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and that Jehovah your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; hence, Jehovah your God commanded you to hold the Sabbath day.

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God has commanded you, that your days may be  ¹extended and that it may be  ¹well with you upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.

You shall not kill;

Neither shall you commit adultery;

Neither shall you steal;

Neither shall you testify as a vain witness against your neighbor;

Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife, nor shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

These words Jehovah spoke to all your congregation on the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness, with a great voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them upon two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain burned with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders,

And said, Jehovah our God has just shown us His glory and His greatness, and His voice we have heard from the midst of the fire; today we have seen that God speaks with man and yet he lives.

Therefore why should we die now? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any longer, we will die.

For who is there among all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and has lived?

You go near and hear all that Jehovah our God says; then you will speak to us all that Jehovah our God speaks to you, and we will hear and do.

And Jehovah heard the sound of your words while you spoke to me; and Jehovah said to me, I have heard the sound of the words of this people which they have spoken to you; they have done well in all that they have spoken.

Oh that this heart of theirs would be in them always to fear Me and keep all My commandments so that it may go well with them and with their children forever!

Go, say to them, Return to your tents.

But you, stand here by Me that I may speak to you the whole commandment, and the statutes and the ordinances, which you will teach them to do in the land which I am giving them to possess.

Keep them therefore so that you may do them, even as Jehovah your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.

You shall walk in all the way that Jehovah your God has commanded you, so that you may live and that it may go well with you and that you may extend your days in the land which you will possess.

Now this is the  ¹commandment, the statutes and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God has commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land into which you are crossing over to possess;

That you may fear Jehovah your God and keep all His statutes and His commandments, which I am commanding you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life; and that your days may be extended.

Therefore hear, O Israel, and be certain to do it, that it may go well with you and that you may be greatly increased, in a land flowing with milk and honey, even as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, promised you.

Hear, O Israel,  ¹Jehovah is our God; Jehovah is one.

And you shall  ¹love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

And these words, which I command you today, shall be upon your heart;

And you shall  ¹repeat them to your children, and speak about them when you sit in your house and when you journey on the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up;

And you shall bind them on your hand as a sign, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes;

And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

And when Jehovah your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and fine cities that you did not build,

And houses full of every good thing that you did not fill, and hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant, and you have eaten and are satisfied;

Be careful that you do not forget Jehovah who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house.

It is Jehovah your God whom you shall fear, and Him whom you shall serve; and it is by His name only that you shall swear.

You shall not go after other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you —

For Jehovah your God is a jealous God in the midst of you. Otherwise the anger of Jehovah your God will be kindled against you, and He will destroy you from off the face of the earth.

You shall not test Jehovah your God, as you tested Him at  ¹Massah.

You shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and His testimonies and His statutes, which He has commanded you.

And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Jehovah so that it may go well with you and you may enter and possess the good land, concerning which Jehovah swore to your fathers

To drive out all your enemies from before you, as Jehovah has spoken.

When your son asks you  ¹in the future, saying, What is the significance of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances that Jehovah our God commanded you?

Then you will say to your son, We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

And Jehovah put forth before our eyes great and grievous signs and wonders in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his house.

Then He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, that He might give us the land which He swore to our fathers.

And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes so that we would fear Jehovah our God for our good always and He would preserve us alive, as we are this day.

And it will be righteousness to us if we are certain to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as He commanded us.