“You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the Lord.

You must be sure to obey my statutes. I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations. I am the Lord.’”

Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!

Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.

Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard. You will take turns guarding the palace.

So you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought your regiments out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance.

When you enter the land that the Lord will give to you, just as he said, you must observe this ceremony.

And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,

You must reside at the entrance of the Meeting Tent day and night for seven days and keep the charge of the Lord so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”

So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.

You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,

You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”

You will be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the care of the altar, so that there will be no more wrath on the Israelites.

“Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.

You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites this entire time, right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God.

So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people.

“‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, so that the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.

So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise people.”