¹ These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.

⁴⁰ So that they may give you worship all the days of their life in the land which you gave to our fathers.

¹ Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

² While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.

³³ I will make songs to the Lord all my life; I will make melody to my God while I have my being.

¹⁹ See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.

¹ Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:

² So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

⁴⁵ These are the rules and the laws and the decisions which Moses gave to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt;

¹⁹ And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

⁹ Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

¹⁰ That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.

⁵ I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.

¹ And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

² Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.