Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Deuteronomy 26
¹⁴ I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed any of it for an unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me.
¹⁵ Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, "a land flowing with milk and honey." ’
¹⁶ "This day the Lord your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.
¹⁷ Today you have proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice.
¹⁸ Also today the Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments,
¹⁹ and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken."
Deuteronomy 27
¹ Now Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying: "Keep all the commandments which I command you today.
² And it shall be, on the day when you cross over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, that you shall set up for yourselves large stones, and whitewash them with lime.
³ You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have crossed over, that you may enter the land which the Lord your God is giving you, ’a land flowing with milk and honey,’ just as the Lord God of your fathers promised you.
⁴ Therefore it shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that on Mount Ebal you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, and you shall whitewash them with lime.
⁵ And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you shall not use an iron tool on them.