So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that good land.

to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them."

Do not think to yourself after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, "Because of my own righteousness the Lord has brought me here to possess this land." It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And he said to me, "Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image."

You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone doing what seems best to him,

but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today.