The LORD your God greatly multiplied your numbers, and today you are like the stars in the sky.

In the desert you saw that the LORD carried you like a man carries his son, on every road you traveled until you reached this place.'

The Amorites who lived in the hill country came out to engage you in battle. They pursued you like bees do and crushed you from Seir to Hormah.

Like the Anakim, they were thought of as Rephaim, but the Moabites called them Emites.

until the LORD grants rest to your fellow Israelis like you. When they take possession of the territory that the LORD your God is about to give them on the other side of the Jordan River, then each of you may return to the territory that I've allotted for you.'

For what great nation has a god so near like the LORD our God whenever we call on him?

And what great nation has all the decrees and righteous ordinances like all this teaching that I'm giving you today?

"Indeed, ask from one end of the heavens to the other about days of old, before your time, when God created mankind on the earth. Did we ever have anything as great as this, or ever hear of anything like it?

"You have been shown this in order to know that "the LORD is God' and there is no one like him.

For what mortal man has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire like we did, and lived?

"Don't test the LORD your God like you did in Massah.

Just like the nations whom the LORD destroyed before you, so will you be destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God."

"At that time, the LORD told me, "Chisel two tablets of stone for yourself just like the first ones, and then come up to me on the mountain. Also make for yourself a wooden chest.

So I made a chest out of acacia wood and chiseled two tablets of stones just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

For the land that you are about to enter to inherit isn't like the land of Egypt that you just left, where you plant a seed and irrigate it with your feet like a vegetable garden.

"You must not act like this with respect to the LORD your God.

"Your own blood brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your friend who is like your soul mate may entice you quietly. He may tell you, "Let's go and serve other gods,' (whom neither you nor your ancestors have known

Only you must not eat its blood. Pour it on the ground like water."

"When you have come to the land that the LORD your God is about to give you, and you have taken possession of it, and have settled in it, then you will say, "I will appoint a king over me like all the nations around me.'

There he may serve in the name of the LORD his God. Like his fellow descendants of Levi who stand there in the LORD's presence,

"The LORD your God will raise up a prophet like me for you from among your relatives. You must listen to him,

I will raise up a prophet like you from among their relatives, and I will place my words in his mouth so that he may expound everything that I have commanded to them.

they are to bring her to the door of her father's house. Then the men of the city are to stone her with boulders until she dies for doing a detestable thing in Israel acting like a prostitute while in her father's house. By doing this, you will remove this evil from among you.

Let him live among you wherever he chooses in any of your cities that he likes. Don't mistreat him."

"The LORD will raise a distant nation against you from the other side of the earth. Swooping down like a vulture,

The whole land will be covered with salt pits and burning sulfur, with nothing planted, nothing sprouting, and producing no vegetation overthrown like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, when the LORD overthrew them in his raging fury.

May my instructions descend like rain and may my words flow like dew, as light rain upon the grass, and as showers upon new plants.

Like an eagle stirs its nest, hovering near its young, spreading out his wings to take him and carry him on his pinions,

For their rock isn't like our Rock, as even our enemies admit.

About Gad he said: "Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad! Like a roaring lion, he crouches, tearing arm and scalp.

"There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens with its lofty clouds to help you.

How blessed are you, Israel! Who can be like you, a people delivered by the LORD, your shield of help and your finely crafted sword. May your enemies cower before you. You will tread down their high places."

No prophet ever rose again in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew with such great intimacy.