TSK · Deuteronomy 4:1

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

You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations. I am the LORD.

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

And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?

These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,

Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.

The LORD commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the LORD promised to your ancestors.

Theological Justification of the Conquest Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications.

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

You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!

so that they might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the LORD!

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 gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them!

I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

You are my friends if you do what I command you.