A reading from the book of Deuteronomy.

And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them,

Here, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today,

and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horam.

Not with our fathers, did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive

today.

The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, while I stood

between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord, for you were

afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up

into the mountain. He said, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the

house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image

or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,

or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve

them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the

children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him

guiltless who takes his name in vain. Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy, as the Lord your God

commanded you. Six days you shall

labor and do all your work, but the seven day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it, you shall not do any

work. You or your son or your daughter or your male servant, or your female servant, or your ox,

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