They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, which they scouted out.

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."

I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord and recklessly went up to the hill country.

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made -- they are still there, just as the Lord commanded me.

When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Then you must affirm before the Lord your God, "A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.

Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

Then Moses went with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song to the people.