1. And Moses summoned all of Israel, and he said to them: “Listen, O Israel, to the ceremonies and judgments, which I am speaking to your ears on this day. Learn them, and fulfill them in deed.5. I was the mediator, for I was in the middle between the Lord and you, at that time, to announce his words to you. For you were afraid of the fire, and so you did not ascend to the mountain. And he said:6. ‘I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, from the house of servitude.7. You shall not have strange gods in my sight.8. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, nor the likeness of anything, which is in heaven above, or on earth below, or which abides in the waters under the earth.9. You shall not adore and you shall not worship these things. For I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, repaying the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation to those who hate me,
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12. Alleluia. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem. Praise your God, O Zion.13. For he has reinforced the bars of your gates. He has blessed your sons within you.15. He sends forth his eloquence to the earth. His word runs swiftly.16. He provides snow like wool. He strews clouds like ashes.19. He announces his word to Jacob, his justices and his judgments to Israel.20. He has not done so much for every nation, and he has not made his judgments manifest to them.
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17. Do not think that I have come to loosen the law or the prophets. I have not come to loosen, but to fulfill.18. Amen I say to you, certainly, until heaven and earth pass away, not one iota, not one dot shall pass away from the law, until all is done.19. Therefore, whoever will have loosened one of the least of these commandments, and have taught men so, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever will have done and taught these, such a one shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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