7 And when you came to this place, aSihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we conquered them.
8 We took their land and agave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh.
9 Therefore akeep the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may bprosper in all that you do.
10 “All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel,
11 your little ones and your wives—also the stranger who is in your camp, from athe one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water—
12 that you may enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and ainto His oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today,
13 that He may aestablish you today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you, bjust as He has spoken to you, and cjust as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14 “I make this covenant and this oath, anot with you alone,
15 but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, aas well as with him who is not here with us today
16 (for you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations which you passed by,
17 and you saw their1 abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold);
18 so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, awhose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, band that there may not be among you a root bearing cbitterness or wormwood;
19 and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I1 follow the adictates of my heart’—bas though the drunkard could be included with the sober.
20a“The Lord would not spare him; for then bthe anger of the Lord and cHis jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lorddwould blot out his name from under heaven.
21 And the Lordawould separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the bLaw,
22 so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they asee the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it:
DEUTERONOMY, the second law, a title which plainly shows what is the object of this book, namely, a recapitulation of the law. It was given in the form of public addresses to the people; and as Moses spoke in the prospect of his speedy removal, he enforced obedience to it by many forcible appeals to the Israelites, concerning their long and varied experience both of the mercies and the judgments of God. The minute notices of the heathen people with whom they had come in contact, but who afterward disappeared from the pages of history, as well as the accounts of the fertility and products of Canaan, and the counsels respecting the conquest of that country, fix the date of this book and the time of its composition by the hand of Moses. The close, however, must have been added by another; and, indeed, it is supposed by some to have formed the original preface to the Book of Joshua.
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