‘Ekev – Because

Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25

The layout of the is comparable to a standard suzerainty treaty. 1. Preamble (Deuteronomy 1:1-5) 2. Historical Prologue (Deuteronomy 1:6-3:29) 3. Stipulations (Deuteronomy 4:1-26:19) a. General Deuteronomy 4:1-11:32 b. Specific Deuteronomy 12:1-26:19 4. Sanctions (Blessings &Curses) Deuteronomy 27-28 5. Summary recapitulation Deuteronomy 29:1-30:20 6. Continuity and disposition a. Deuteronomy 31:1-34:12 continuity.

The parashah ‘Ekev is broken down this way: • 7 Nations to destroy (C) – Deuteronomy 7:16-26 • The covenant (C) – Deuteronomy 8:1-20 • YHVH keeps His covenantal promise (P) – Deuteronomy 9:1-6 • Provoking YHVH (C) – Deuteronomy 9:7-29 • Kohathites Carry The Ark of the Covenant (C) – Deuteronomy 10:1-11 • What is required (C) – Deuteronomy 10:12-22 • Acts of YHVH (C) – Deuteronomy 11:1-9 • Blessings and Curses (C) – Deuteronomy 11:10-32

Deuteronomy 7:12-16

"Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. 13 And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock. 15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

7 Nations to Destroy C Deuteronomy 7:16-22 Deuteronomy 7:23-26 Comments A Deuteronomy 7:16 Deuteronomy 7:25-26 Recall that 1, 2 Deuteronomy 7:1 Also you shall destroy all the You shall burn the carved specifically peoples whom the Lord your God images of their gods with commanded the delivers over to you; your eye fire; you shall not covet the to completely shall have no pity on them; nor silver or gold that is on them, destroy 7 nations shall you serve their gods, for nor take it for yourselves, lest greater and mightier that will be a snare to you. you be snared by it; for it is than them. These an abomination to the Lord were: the Hittites,

‘Ekev - Because HODF 6/2018 By Beth Mehaffey your God. 26 Nor shall you Girgashites, Amorites, bring an abomination into Canaanites, Perizzites, your house, lest you be Hivites, and Jebusites. doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing. B Deuteronomy 7:17-21 Deuteronomy 7:23-24 YHVH reminded the 1, 2 Israelites of how He 17 "If you should say in your But the Lord your God will defeated Pharaoh. heart, 'These nations are greater deliver them over to you, They could be sure that than I; how can I dispossess and will inflict defeat upon it will really be YHVH them?' — 18 you shall not be them until they are and not the Israelites afraid of them, but you shall destroyed. 24 And He will who will defeat these remember well what the Lord deliver their kings into your nations. your God did to Pharaoh and to hand, all Egypt: 19 the great trials YHVH Elohim will be which your eyes saw, the signs and you will destroy their the one to defeat and the wonders, the mighty name from under heaven; no them; He will give their hand and the outstretched arm, one shall be able to stand kings into the hands of by which the Lord your God against you until you have the Israelites. brought you out. So shall the destroyed them. Lord your God do to all the They will destroy the peoples of whom you are afraid. names of their 20 Moreover the Lord your God enemies. will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. 21 You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you. C Deuteronomy 7:22 This will not take place immediately. It will be And the Lord your God will drive done over a period of out those nations before you time. little by little; you will be unable to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

The Covenant C Deuteronomy 8:1-9 Deuteronomy 8:10-20 Comments A Deuteronomy 8:1 Deuteronomy 8:17-20 The covenant that was 1, 2 originally with "Every commandment which I then you say in your heart, Abraham and later command you today you must be 'My power and the might of fulfilled with his

‘Ekev - Because HODF 6/2018 By Beth Mehaffey careful to observe, that you may my hand have gained me this descendants was a live and multiply, and go in and wealth.' covenant for land. To possess the land of which the remain in the land and Lord swore to your fathers. 18 "And you shall remember have life required their the Lord your God, for it is He obedience to the terms who gives you power to get of the covenant. If they wealth, that He may failed to keep the establish His covenant which covenant and serve He swore to your fathers, as other gods instead, it is this day. 19 Then it shall they would perish in be, if you by any means the same way the forget the Lord your God, people who were and follow other gods, and already in the land serve them and worship would perish. them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God. B Deuteronomy 8:2-4 Deuteronomy 8:11-16 Again, God’s people 1, 2 are reminded of the And you shall remember that the "Beware that you do not importance of keeping Lord your God led you all the forget the Lord your God by YHVH’s way these forty years in the not keeping His commandments. wilderness, to humble you and commandments, His test you, to know what was in judgments, and His statutes He wants them to your heart, whether you would which I command you today, remember the times keep His commandments or not. 12 lest — when you have when He humbled eaten and are full, and have them to know what 3 So He humbled you, allowed built beautiful houses and was in their hearts. you to hunger, and fed you with dwell in them; 13 and when manna which you did not know your herds and your flocks Adversity and difficulty nor did your fathers know, that multiply, and your silver and has a way of revealing He might make you know that your gold are multiplied, and what is in the heart of a man shall not live by bread alone; all that you have is person. It creates multiplied; 14 when your dependence on YHVH. but man lives by every word that heart is lifted up, and you When times are good proceeds from the mouth of the forget the Lord your God and all our needs are Lord. who brought you out of the met, we have a land of Egypt, from the house tendency to forget and 4 Your garments did not wear out of bondage; 15 who led you take what we have for on you, nor did your foot swell through that great and granted. We tend to these forty years. terrible wilderness, in which become prideful were fiery serpents and instead of remaining scorpions and thirsty land humble. That’s why

‘Ekev - Because HODF 6/2018 By Beth Mehaffey where there was no water; remembering the who brought water for you difficult times and out of the flinty rock; 16 who times of dependency is fed you in the wilderness so important. It is with manna, which your through remembering fathers did not know, that He that we remain might humble you and that humble. He might test you, to do you good in the end — C Deuteronomy 8:5 Deuteronomy 8:10 God’s people should: 1, 2 • Know YHVH 5 You should know in your heart When you have eaten and disciplines them as a that as a man chastens his son, so are full, then you shall bless man disciplines his the Lord your God chastens you. the Lord your God for the son. good land which He has given • Bless YHVH Elohim you. for the food and land that He has blessed them with. D Deuteronomy 8:6-9 Over and over again we are seeing the 6 "Therefore you shall keep the reminder to obey the commandments of the Lord your terms of the covenant, God, to walk in His ways and to which is the fulfillment fear Him. of the covenant for land and numerous 7 For the Lord your God is descendants promised bringing you into a good land, a to Abraham. land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow It is also a covenant out of valleys and hills; 8 a land of involving relationship wheat and barley, of vines and fig with YHVH Elohim, one trees and pomegranates, a land in which His people are of olive oil and honey; 9 a land in to fear, honor, love, which you will eat bread without and respect Him. In scarcity, in which you will lack turn, there is the nothing; a land whose stones are blessing of the land of iron and out of whose hills you Israel. can dig copper.

YHVH Keeps His Covenantal Promise P Deuteronomy 9:1-4a Deuteronomy 9:4b-6 Comments A Deuteronomy 9:1-3 Deuteronomy 9:4b-5 The time had come for 1, 2 YHVH to fulfill His "Hear, O Israel: You are to cross but it is because of the covenantal promise to over the Jordan today, and go in wickedness of these nations Abraham, Isaac, and to dispossess nations greater that the Lord is driving them Jacob. and mightier than yourself, cities out from before you.

‘Ekev - Because HODF 6/2018 By Beth Mehaffey great and fortified up to heaven, It had nothing to do 2 a people great and tall, the 5 It is not because of your with the righteousness descendants of the Anakim, righteousness or the of their descendants, whom you know, and of whom uprightness of your heart but the wickedness of you heard it said, 'Who can stand that you go in to possess these nations had before the descendants of Anak?' their land, but because of reached their fulness, the wickedness of these and it was time for 3 Therefore understand today nations that the Lord your them to be driven out that the Lord your God is He who God drives them out from of the land and goes over before you as a before you, destroyed. consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down and that He may fulfill the before you; so you shall drive word which the Lord swore them out and destroy them to your fathers, to Abraham, quickly, as the Lord has said to Isaac, and Jacob. you. B Deuteronomy 9:4a Deuteronomy 9:6 Abraham’s 1, 2 descendants were not 4 "Do not think in your heart, 6 Therefore understand that exactly righteous; on after the Lord your God has cast the Lord your God is not the contrary, they were them out before you, saying, giving you this good land to stiff-necked (obstinate, 'Because of my righteousness the possess because of your rebellious, stubborn— Lord has brought me in to righteousness, for you are a this is not compatible possess this land'; stiff-necked people. with righteousness). Yet, because of the covenant made with Abraham, YHVH is keeping His promise with Abraham’s descendants and those who have joined themselves to Israel.

Provoking YHVH C Deuteronomy 9:7-19 Deuteronomy 9:20-29 Comments A Deuteronomy 9:7-10 Deuteronomy 9:25-29 ascended the 1, 2 mountain twice, once 7 "Remember! Do not forget "Thus I prostrated myself to receive the tablets how you provoked the Lord your before the Lord; forty days of the covenant and God to wrath in the wilderness. and forty nights I kept second to plead for From the day that you departed prostrating myself, because forgiveness for YHVH’s from the land of Egypt until you the Lord had said He would people. came to this place, you have destroy you. been rebellious against the Lord. God’s people were 8 Also in Horeb you provoked 26 Therefore I prayed to the rebellious/stubborn, the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord, and said: 'O Lord God, deserving destruction, do not destroy Your people yet God in His mercy

‘Ekev - Because HODF 6/2018 By Beth Mehaffey Lord was angry enough with you and Your inheritance whom spared them for the to have destroyed you. You have redeemed through sake of His Your greatness, whom You name/reputation and 9 When I went up into the have brought out of Egypt the covenant He had mountain to receive the tablets with a mighty hand. with Abraham, Isaac, of stone, the tablets of the and Jacob. covenant which the Lord made 27 Remember Your servants, with you, then I stayed on the Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; mountain forty days and forty do not look on the nights. I neither ate bread nor stubbornness of this people, drank water. or on their wickedness or their sin, 10 Then the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with 28 lest the land from which the finger of God, and on them You brought us should say, were all the words which the "Because the Lord was not Lord had spoken to you on the able to bring them to the mountain from the midst of the land which He promised fire in the day of the assembly. them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness."

29 Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.' B Deuteronomy 9:11-14 Deuteronomy 9:22-24 After Moses’ first 40- 1, 2 day period at the top of And it came to pass, at the end of "Also at Taberah and Massah the mountain, he forty days and forty nights, that and you returned to the people the Lord gave me the two tablets provoked the Lord to wrath. with the 2 tablets of of stone, the tablets of the the covenant having covenant. 23 Likewise, when the Lord been forewarned that sent you from Kadesh YHVH’s people had 12 "Then the Lord said to me, Barnea, saying, 'Go up and already broken the 'Arise, go down quickly from possess the land which I have covenant by making here, for your people whom you given you,' then you rebelled and worshiping a brought out of Egypt have acted against the commandment molded calf made out corruptly; they have quickly of the Lord your God, and of gold (Exodus 32). turned aside from the way which you did not believe Him nor I commanded them; they have obey His voice. YHVH could have kept made themselves a molded His covenant with image.' 24 You have been rebellious Abraham, Isaac, and against the Lord from the Jacob with Moses’ 13 "Furthermore the Lord spoke day that I knew you. descendants but Moses to me, saying, 'I have seen this

‘Ekev - Because HODF 6/2018 By Beth Mehaffey people, and indeed they are a insisted He work with stiff-necked people. this group.

14 Let Me alone, that I may Their rebelliousness did destroy them and blot out their not end with the name from under heaven; and I golden calf. It will make of you a nation continued by mightier and greater than they.' complaining (Exodus 17, Numbers 11) and refusing to go into the promised land (Numbers 13-14). C Deuteronomy 9:15-17 Deuteronomy 9:20-21 Moses destroyed the 1, 2 physical symbols of "So I turned and came down And the Lord was very angry these 2 covenants: from the mountain, and the with Aaron and would have • Throwing down and mountain burned with fire; and destroyed him; so I prayed breaking the stone the two tablets of the covenant for Aaron also at the same tablets. were in my two hands. 16 And I time. • Burning, crushing, looked, and behold, you had and grinding the calf sinned against the Lord your God 21 Then I took your sin, the to dust and throwing — had made for yourselves a calf which you had made, it in the brook. molded calf! You had turned and burned it with fire and aside quickly from the way which crushed it and ground it very Note the similar theme the Lord had commanded you. 17 small, until it was as fine as of throwing. After the Then I took the two tablets and dust; and I threw its dust into final judgment, the threw them out of my two hands the brook that descended wicked will be thrown and broke them before your from the mountain. in the lake of fire. eyes. D Deuteronomy 9:18-19 What began with a 40- day/night period, ends 18 And I fell down before the with another 40- Lord, as at the first, forty days day/night period. and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because We should remember of all your sin which you that committing committed in doing wickedly in wickedness, whether the sight of the Lord, to provoke it’s idolatry, Him to anger. complaining, or rebelliousness, 19 For I was afraid of the anger provokes YHVH to and hot displeasure with which anger. the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. But the Lord Let us do our best to listened to me at that time also. avoid displeasing YHVH and be grateful that Yeshua lives to

‘Ekev - Because HODF 6/2018 By Beth Mehaffey intercede for us when we fail.

Kohathites Carry The Ark of the Covenant C Deuteronomy 10:1-6 Deuteronomy 10:7-11 Comments A Deuteronomy 10:1-2 Deuteronomy 10:10-11 There were 3 things YHVH said to 1, 2 Moses: "At that time the Lord 10 "As at the first time, I • Make 2 new tablets. said to me, 'Hew for stayed in the mountain • Make an ark for the tablets. This yourself two tablets of forty days and forty would protect them from damage stone like the first, and nights; the Lord also and being lost. come up to Me on the heard me at that time, • Arise and begin your journey. mountain and make and the Lord chose not to yourself an ark of wood. destroy you. Since Moses broke the original 2 And I will write on the tablets given to him by YHVH, Moses tablets the words that 11 Then the Lord said to had to hew 2 new tablets of stone were on the first tablets, me, 'Arise, begin your like the original. which you broke; and journey before the you shall put them in people, that they may go Moses was also commanded to the ark.' in and possess the land make an ark to place them in. It which I swore to their seems likely that this ark is the same fathers to give them.' ark that was made during the construction of the tabernacle and all of its furnishings since it was referred to as the ark of the covenant.

The idea at that time was for them to begin their journey to the promised land.

Consider how the commandments are to be stored in our hearts, guarded, and observed. B Deuteronomy 10:3-5 Deuteronomy 10:7-9 Moses brought the new tablets, 1,2 with the 10 Words 3 "So I made an ark of 7 From there they (commandments) of the covenant, acacia wood, hewed journeyed to Gudgodah, down from the top of the mountain. two tablets of stone like and from Gudgodah to Once the ark was made, the tablets the first, and went up Jotbathah, a land of were stored there as YHVH the mountain, having rivers of water. commanded him. the two tablets in my hand. 4 And He wrote 8 At that time the Lord The Israelites began their journey. on the tablets according separated the tribe of They left Mt. Sinai and traveled to to the first writing, the Levi [specifically the Gudgodah to Jotbathah; as they Ten Commandments, Kohathites] to bear the traveled, the Levites carried the ark which the Lord had ark of the covenant of

‘Ekev - Because HODF 6/2018 By Beth Mehaffey spoken to you in the the Lord, to stand before of the covenant (compare with mountain from the the Lord to minister to Numbers 33). midst of the fire in the Him and to bless in His day of the assembly; name, to this day. Deuteronomy10:8 says the tribe of and the Lord gave them Levi was separated to bear the ark to me. 5 Then I turned 9 Therefore Levi has no of the covenant of YHVH and to and came down from portion nor inheritance minister to Him at that time. the mountain, and put with his brethren; the Perhaps this is pointing back to the the tablets in the ark Lord is his inheritance, time of verse 6 before they began which I had made; and just as the Lord your God their journey. It seems that the there they are, just as promised him.) Levites were separated out while the Lord commanded they were still at Mt. Sinai just after me." the sin of the molded golden calf (Exodus 32:26). They had to build the tabernacle and all of its furnishings and learn the proper methods of sacrifice.

The Levites did not have an inheritance with their brothers. C Deuteronomy 10:6 See Numbers 33:31-49 for a slightly different account of the location of (Now the children of Aaron’s death on Mount Hor and Israel journeyed from how the journey of the Israelites the wells of Bene Jaakan progressed after that. to Moserah (possibly location of Mt Hor; may Aaron, like Moses did not get to have been renamed), enter the Promised Land. where Aaron died, and where he was buried; Josephus and Eusebius indicate that and Eleazar his son “Jebel Haroun” (mountain of Aaron) ministered as priest in at Petra was Mt. Hor. his stead.

What Is Required C Deuteronomy 10:12-18 Deuteronomy 10:19-22 Comments A Deuteronomy 10:12-14 Deuteronomy 10:22 The numerous stars are 1, 2 12 "And now, Israel, what does compared with the the Lord your God require of Your fathers went down to numerous descendants you, but to fear the Lord your Egypt with seventy persons, of Abraham. God, to walk in all His ways and and now the Lord your God to love Him, to serve the Lord has made you as the stars of Note that Joseph’s your God with all your heart and heaven in multitude. dream depicted the with all your soul, 13 and to keep stars as paralleling the commandments of the Lord Isaac’s sons/Joseph’s and His statutes which I brothers. command you today for your

‘Ekev - Because HODF 6/2018 By Beth Mehaffey good? 14 Indeed heaven and the See Micah 6:8 highest heavens belong to the Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it. B Deuteronomy 10:15-16 Deuteronomy 10:20-21 YHVH chose Abraham 1, 2 and his descendants The Lord delighted only in your You shall fear the Lord your above all the people of fathers, to love them; and He God; you shall serve Him, the earth for Himself. chose their descendants after and to Him you shall hold They are YHVH’s them, you above all peoples, as fast, and take oaths in His inheritance. it is this day. name. 21 He is your praise, and He is your God, who has The Israelites (and we) done for you these great and must choose to fear 16 Therefore circumcise the awesome things which your YHVH, serve Him, hold foreskin of your heart, and be eyes have seen. fast to Him, and take stiff-necked no longer. oaths in His name. In addition, they must circumcise the foreskins of their (our) hearts and stop being rebellious.

Circumcision of the heart – Jeremiah 4:4 C Deuteronomy 10:17-18 Deuteronomy 10:19 YHVH does not show 1, 2 partiality. We should 17 For the Lord your God is God Therefore love the stranger, not show partiality of gods and Lord of lords, the for you were strangers in the either. great God, mighty and awesome, land of Egypt. who shows no partiality nor takes Strangers (gerim) must a bribe. be treated equally, kindly, and fairly. 18 He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

Acts of YHVH C Deuteronomy 11:1-5 Deuteronomy 11:6-9 Comments A Deuteronomy 11:1 Deuteronomy 11:8-9 God’s people were to 1, 2 keep YHVH’s "Therefore you shall love the "Therefore you shall keep commandments in Lord your God, and keep His every commandment which I order to be strong and charge, His statutes, His command you today, that possess the land, and judgments, and His you may be strong, and go in to have long life. commandments always. and possess the land which

‘Ekev - Because HODF 6/2018 By Beth Mehaffey you cross over to possess, 9 and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, 'a land flowing with milk and honey.' B Deuteronomy 11:2 Deuteronomy 11:7 Opposition: 1, 2 • Their children had Know today that I do not speak but your eyes have seen not seen the with your children, who have not every great act of the Lord chastening of YHVH, known and who have not seen which He did. His greatness, mighty the chastening of the Lord your hand and God, His greatness and His outstretched arm. mighty hand and His • Their eyes (not their outstretched arm -- children’s eyes) have seen every great act of YHVH. C Deuteronomy 11:3-4 Deuteronomy 11:6 Destructive acts of 1, 2 YHVH: 3 "His signs and His acts which He and what He did to Dathan • Acts done in Egypt to did in the midst of Egypt, to and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the Egyptians. Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all the son of Reuben: how the • Acts done to Dathan his land; earth opened its mouth and and Abiram. 4 "what He did to the army of swallowed them up, their Egypt, to their horses and their households, their tents, and chariots: how He made the all the substance that was in waters of the Red Sea overflow their possession, in the midst them as they pursued you, and of all Israel — how the LORD has destroyed them to this day; D Deuteronomy 11:5 Sustaining acts of YHVH 1, 2 what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place;

Blessings and Curses C Deuteronomy 11:10-21 Deuteronomy 11:22-32 Comments A Deuteronomy 11:10-12 Deuteronomy 11:31-32 The Promised Land is a 1, 2 special land because For the land which you go to For you will cross over the God cares for it and possess is not like the land of Jordan and go in to possess keeps His eyes on it all Egypt from which you have the land which the Lord your year long. come, where you sowed your

‘Ekev - Because HODF 6/2018 By Beth Mehaffey seed and watered it by foot, as a God is giving you, and you To stay in this special vegetable garden; 11 but the land will possess it and dwell in it. land, the Israelites had which you cross over to possess to be careful to is a land of hills and valleys, 32 And you shall be careful to observe all of YHVH’s which drinks water from the rain observe all the statutes and statutes and of heaven, judgments which I set before judgments. you today. 12 a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year. B Deuteronomy 11:13-17 Deuteronomy 11:26-30 Blessings and curses 1, 2 are associated with the 13 'And it shall be that if you 26 "Behold, I set before you land. earnestly obey My today a blessing and a curse: commandments which I 27 the blessing, if you obey Blessings require command you today, to love the the commandments of the obedience. Lord your God and serve Him Lord your God which I with all your heart and with all command you today; 28 and Curses result from your soul, the curse, if you do not obey disobedience and going the commandments of the after other gods. [Blessings:] 14 then I will give Lord your God, but turn aside you the rain for your land in its from the way which I season, the early rain and the command you today, to go latter rain, that you may gather in after other gods which you your grain, your new wine, and have not known. your oil. 15 And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, 29 Now it shall be, when the that you may eat and be filled.' Lord your God has brought you into the land which you [Curses:] 16 Take heed to go to possess, that you shall yourselves, lest your heart be put the blessing on Mount deceived, and you turn aside and Gerizim and the curse on serve other gods and worship Mount Ebal. them, 17 lest the Lord's anger be aroused against you, and He shut 30 Are they not on the other up the heavens so that there be side of the Jordan, toward no rain, and the land yield no the setting sun, in the land of produce, and you perish quickly the Canaanites who dwell in from the good land which the the plain opposite Gilgal, Lord is giving you. beside the terebinth trees of Moreh? C Deuteronomy 11:18-21 Deuteronomy 11:22-25 These words were to 1, 2 be in their heart and 18 "Therefore you shall lay up 22 "For if you carefully keep mind from the very these words of mine in your all these commandments beginning and heart and in your soul, and bind which I command you to do obedience to these

‘Ekev - Because HODF 6/2018 By Beth Mehaffey them as a sign on your hand, and — to love the Lord your God, words were to be part they shall be as frontlets to walk in all His ways, and to of daily life for each between your eyes. hold fast to Him — person and their descendants. 19 You shall teach them to your 23 then the Lord will drive children, speaking of them when out all these nations from What is written in you sit in your house, when you before you, and you will Jeremiah 31:33 was in walk by the way, when you lie dispossess greater and God’s mind from the down, and when you rise up. mightier nations than beginning. yourselves. 20 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and 24 Every place on which the on your gates, sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the 21 that your days and the days of wilderness and Lebanon, your children may be multiplied from the river, the River in the land of which the Lord Euphrates, even to the swore to your fathers to give Western Sea, shall be your them, like the days of the territory. heavens above the earth. 25 No man shall be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you. Be sure to see these 2 posts: https://holyhiway.wordpress.com/2017/05/13/doers-of-the-law-will-be-justified/ https://holyhiway.wordpress.com/2018/05/14/what-paul-meant-in-galatians/

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