“I spoke to you at that time, saying, ‘I am not able to bear the burden of you alone.

How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?

Only you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had commanded us.

He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.

“If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;

“Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,

how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

“Now not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath,

“The Lord alone guided him,
And there was no foreign god with him.