Then I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights; I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and provoking Him to anger.

“If a man or woman among you in one of your towns that the Lord your God will give you is discovered doing evil in the sight of the Lord your God and violating His covenant

“You are not to do as we are doing here today; everyone is doing whatever seems right in his own eyes.

Do not eat it, so that you and your children after you will prosper, because you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.