Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below -- there is no other!

And he brought signs and great, devastating wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on his whole family before our very eyes.

They include the Anakites, a numerous and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, "Who is able to resist the Anakites?"

The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

Now at the end of the forty days and nights the Lord presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.

Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates

the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other).

At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.

At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.

The Levitical priests -- indeed, the entire tribe of Levi -- will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the Lord and of his inheritance.

The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils -- from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

The Lord will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

He commanded them: "At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts, at the Feast of Temporary Shelters,

Bless, O Lord, his goods, and be pleased with his efforts; undercut the legs of any who attack him, and of those who hate him, so that they cannot stand.

with the harvest of the earth and its fullness and the pleasure of him who resided in the burning bush. May blessing rest on Joseph's head, and on the top of the head of the one set apart from his brothers.