Wednesday, May 21, 2008

and now o israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul
and to observe the LORD's commands and decrees that i am giving you today for your own good?
to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it
yet the LORD set his affections on your forefathers and loved them, and he choseyou, their descendants above all the nations as it is today
circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiffed-necked any longer
for the LORD your God is God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome who shows no particality and accepts no bribes
He defents the cause of the fatherless and the widow and loves the alien giving him food and clothing
and you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in egypt
fear the LORD your God and serve him. hold fast to him and take your oaths in his home
he is your praise, he is your God who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes
your forefathers who went down into egypt were seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky