Call to Obedience

4 “Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances^(A) I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live,^(B) enter, and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors,^(C) is giving you.

³³ Follow the whole instruction the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live, prosper, and have a long life in the land you will possess.

²⁴ The Lord commanded us to follow all these statutes and to fear the Lord our God for our prosperity always and for our preservation, as it is today.

Remember the Lord

8 “Carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the land^(A) the Lord swore to your ancestors.

³ He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your ancestors had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.^(A)

²⁰ Pursue justice and justice alone, so that you will live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.^(A)

⁴⁶ he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I am giving as a warning to you today,^(A) so that you may command your children to follow all the words of this law carefully.^{(B) 47} For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life,^(C) and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”