TSK · Deuteronomy 29:1

Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,“Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:

Moses alone may come near the LORD, but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him.”

¶ The Covenant Setting This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di Zahab.

And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.

The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

The LORD will single him out for judgment from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.

However, fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!

They executed his miraculous signs among them, and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham.

The LORD said to me,“Announce all the following words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem:‘Listen to the terms of my covenant with you and carry them out!

I will punish those people who have violated their covenant with me. I will make them like the calf they cut in two and passed between its pieces. I will do so because they did not keep the terms of the covenant they made in my presence.

“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.