Deuteronomy: God's laws

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1. Moses finally gave the Israelites the rest of all the laws of God, which included re-instructing the Israelites to keep the ten commandments from God. He emphasized that through these laws, God will fulfill His covenant of love to them by establishing them as a nation in Canaan the land God swore to give them.
1 Hear now, O Israel, the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2 Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the LORD your God that I give you.
Deuteronomy 4: 1 - 2

2. Moses also told them that God will not listen to them if they rejected God and chased after other Gods, which were not gods but idols made of wood or stone. Moreover, Moses added that God will destroy them for no obeying His laws, as by keeping His laws will result in life to them. Thus, through the law, it brought death to man.
19 If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. 20 Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 8: 19 - 20

3. God chose Joshua to be the successor of Moses to lead the Israelites into Canaan. Moses was unable to lead the Israelites into Canaan, as he sinned against God by breaking faith with God at the waters of Meribah Kadesh.
1 Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, 2 all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, 3 the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. 4 Then the LORD said to him, "This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it."
5 And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said. 6 He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is. 7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone. 8 The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.
9 Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites listened to him and did what the LORD had commanded Moses.
10 Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, 11 who did all those miraculous signs and wonders the LORD sent him to do in Egypt—to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land. 12 For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
Deuteronomy 34: 1 - 12

Samples of some of God's laws:
15 "Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol—a thing detestable to the LORD, the work of the craftsman's hands—and sets it up in secret."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

16 "Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or his mother."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

17 "Cursed is the man who moves his neighbor's boundary stone."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

18 "Cursed is the man who leads the blind astray on the road."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

19 "Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

20 "Cursed is the man who sleeps with his father's wife, for he dishonors his father's bed."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

21 "Cursed is the man who has sexual relations with any animal."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

22 "Cursed is the man who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

23 "Cursed is the man who sleeps with his mother-in-law."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

24 "Cursed is the man who kills his neighbor secretly."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

25 "Cursed is the man who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

26 "Cursed is the man who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
Deuteronomy 27: 15 - 26

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