“Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them, that you may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.