But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

and in the desert, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place."

All along the way I, the Lord your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.'"

the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons and everyone else.

You have been taught that the Lord alone is God -- there is no other besides him.

and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord's mouth.

Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

You shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).

As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the Lord your God is giving you.

They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

When you see your neighbor's donkey or ox fallen along the road, do not ignore it; instead, you must be sure to help him get the animal on its feet again.

If you happen to notice a bird's nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them, you must not take the mother from the young.

Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you left Egypt.

how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.

You will celebrate all the good things that the Lord your God has given you and your family, along with the Levites and the resident foreigners among you.

You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.

It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

The Lord alone was guiding him, no foreign god was with him.

butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.

They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.