9. That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance, as the Lord your God told them.)
10. Now I had stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and the Lord listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you.
11. ‘Go,’ the Lord said to me, ‘and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their ancestors to give them.’
12. And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13. and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
14. To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.
15. Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations – as it is today.
16. Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer.
17. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.
18. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.
19. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.
20. Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.