10 Your god Yahweh promised your ancestors Abraham,[ref] Yitshak,[ref] and Yakov,[ref] that he’d give you large, prosperous cities that you didn’t have to build, 11 houses full of every good thing that you didn’t have to collect, wells that you didn’t have to dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you didn’t have to plant. You’ll be able to eat and be satisfied, 12 but be sure to never forget that it was Yahweh who rescued you from slavery in Egypt. 13 You must honour your god Yahweh and only serve him and only make promises using his name.[ref] 14 Don’t go trying to follow other gods—the gods of the surrounding countries—15 because your god Yahweh who lives among you is a jealous god. You wouldn’t want him to get angry with you and totally destroy you.

16 Don’t test the patience of your god Yahweh again like you all did over water at Massah.[ref] 17 Be sure to follow all his instructions and rules and regulations that he’s given you. 18 Do what Yahweh says is right and good so that things will go well for you and you’ll be able to enter the good land that he promised to your ancestors and take possession of it—19 driving out all your enemies from that land just as Yahweh has said.

20 In the future when your children ask you, ‘Why did our god Yahweh our God command us to obey all these rules and decrees?’ 21 then you can tell them, ‘We were Far-oh’s slaves in Egypt, but Yahweh used his incredible power to get us out of there. 22 He did many kinds of miracles that devastated that Egyptian king and his whole household, 23 then he took us out of there, so he could bring us here to give us the land that he’d promised to our ancestors. 24 Yahweh ordered us to follow all these instructions to demonstrate that we honour him so that things will go well for us and he’ll protect our nation as he’s doing now. 25 Our god Yahweh will declare us to be innocent of wrong if we obey everything that he’s instructed us.’