A reading from the book of Deuteronomy.

And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you,

and do them that you may live and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord,

the God of your fathers, is giving you. You shall not add to the word that I command you,

nor take from it that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you. Your eyes have seen what the Lord

did at Bail Peor, for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed

the Bail of Peor. But you who held fast to the Lord

your God are all alive today. See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God commanded

me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples,

who, when they hear all these statutes, will say,

surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

For what great nation is there that has a God so near to it as the Lord our God is to

us whenever we call upon Him?

And what great nation is there that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today.

Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have

seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life.

Make them known to your children, and your children's children.

How on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horib,

the Lord said to me,

gather the people to me,

that I may let them hear my words so that they may learn to fear me all

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