do them, in the land whither ye go to possess it.

That thou fear the LORD thy God, and keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, all the days of your life,
that ye may live long.

Israel, hear thou, and keep thee, that thou mayest prosper, and be greatly multiplied; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath spoken unto thee, a land flowing with milk and honey within.

Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God is one LORD.

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shalt thou lay to thine heart.

And thou shalt teach them unto thy children, and speak of them when thou sittest in thine house, or when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, or when thou risest up.

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be a memorial unto thee before thine eyes.

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon the gates thereof.

Now therefore, when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give thee great cities and fine cities, which thou hast not built,

And houses full of goods, which thou hast not filled; and wells digged, which thou hast not digged; and vineyards and oliveyards, which thou hast not planted, that thou mayest eat and be full:

Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,

But fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and swear by his name.

And thou shalt not go after other gods, of the nations that are round about you; 15. For the LORD thy God is a fierce God among thee: lest the wrath of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the earth.

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him at Massa, 17. But keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes which he hath commanded,

To do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with thee, and that thou mayest enter in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,

To drive out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath said.

If thy son therefore shall ask thee to day, or to morrow, saying, What are these testimonies, and commandments, and statutes, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?

Then shalt thou say unto thy son, We were servants of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD
brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

And the LORD wrought great and evil signs and wonders in Egypt, and in Pharaoh, and in all his house, in our sight;

And he led us away from thence, that he might bring us in, and give us the land which he sware unto our fathers;

And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, that we should fear the LORD our God, that it might go well with us all the days of our life, as it is this day.

And it shall be our righteousness before the LORD our God, if we keep and do all these commandments, as he hath commanded us.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 7
Friendship with the heathen and their idolatry forbidden.

When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shalt cut off many nations from before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgothites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than thou;

And if the LORD thy God give them before thee to smite them, then thou shalt banish them, that thou make no covenant with them, nor shew them favour.

And thou shalt not make friends with them. Your daughters you shall not give to their sons,
and their daughters you shall not take from your sons; 4. For they shall make your sons to offend me, to serve other gods: and the wrath of the LORD
shall be kindled against you, and shall soon destroy you.

But so shall ye do unto them: You shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, cut down their groves, and burn their idols with fire.

For thou art a holy people unto God thy Lord. God thy Lord hath chosen thee a people of possession out of all the nations that are upon the earth.

The LORD hath not accepted you, neither chosen you to be more than all nations: for thou art the least of all nations;

But because he loved you, and kept his oath which he sware unto your fathers, he brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Know therefore that the LORD thy God is a God, a faithful God, keeping covenant and mercy with them that love him, and keeping his commandments to a thousand generations, 10. And he hateth them that hate him before his face to destroy them, and is not slow to recompense them before his face that hate him.

Keep therefore the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

And if ye shall hear these statutes, and keep them, and do them; then shall the LORD thy God also keep the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers, 13. And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee, and bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the fruit of thy kine, and the fruit of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

Blessed shalt thou be above all nations. There shall be none barren among thee, Nor among thy cattle.

The LORD will put away from thee all sickness, and will not put upon thee any evil plague of the Egyptians, which thou hast known; and will put it upon all thy haters.

Thou shalt devour all the nations which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not spare them, nor serve their gods: for it shall be a snare unto thee.

But wilt thou say in thine heart, This people is more than I am: how can I drive them out?

Be not afraid of them. Remember what the LORD thy God hath done to Pharaoh and to all the Egyptians.

By great temptation, which thou sawest with thine eyes, and by signs and wonders, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, that the LORD thy GOD might bring thee out. So shall the LORD thy God do unto all nations, of whom thou art afraid.

And the LORD thy God shall send a hornet among them, until they that are left be destroyed, and hide themselves from thee.

Be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is among thee, the great and terrible God.

He, the LORD thy God, shall cut off these people from before thee one by one. Thou canst not destroy them in haste, lest the beasts of the field multiply against thee.

The LORD thy God shall give them up before thee, and shall smite them with a great slaughter, until he destroy them.

And thou shalt deliver their kings into thy hand, and shalt destroy their name under heaven.
No man shall withstand thee, till thou destroy them.

The graven images of their gods shalt thou burn with fire; thou shalt not covet any of the silver or gold that is therein, neither shalt thou take it unto thee, lest thou be consumed therein: for it is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Thou shalt not therefore bring the abomination into thine house, lest thou be utterly destroyed, as it is: but thou shalt be loathsome and abominable unto it, because it is utterly destroyed.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 8
The people are exhorted not to forget the good deeds of God.

All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye keep, and do them; that ye may live, and be multiplied, and come in, and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.

And remember all the way wherein the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to try thee, that it might be known what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.

He humbled thee, and caused thee to hunger, and fed thee with man, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by all that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD.

Thy garments are not old upon thee, neither are thy feet swollen these forty years.

Know thou then in thine heart, that the LORD thy God hath drawn thee, as a man draweth his son.

Keep therefore the commandments of the LORD thy God, that thou walk in his ways, and fear him.

For the LORD thy God leadeth thee into a good land, a land that hath rivers, and fountains, and lakes within, that flow in the mountains, and in the meadows; 8. A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates, in the midst thereof; a land of olive trees, and honey in the midst thereof;

A land where thou hast bread