³ And ^(A)Moses went up to God, and the Lord ^(B)called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: ^4 (C)‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how ^(D)I ^[a]bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. ⁵ Now ^(E)therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and ^(F)keep My covenant, then ^(G)you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is ^(H)Mine. ⁶ And you shall be to Me a ^(I)kingdom of priests and a ^(J)holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

⁷ So Moses came and called for the ^(K)elders of the people, and ^[b]laid before them all these words which the Lord commanded him. ⁸ Then ^(L)all the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord.

A Special People of God

¹⁶ “This day the Lord your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. ¹⁷ Today you have ^(A)proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will ^(B)obey His voice. ¹⁸ Also today ^(C)the Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, ¹⁹ and that He will set you ^(D)high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be ^(E)a ^[a]holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”

The Covenant Renewed in Moab

29 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the ^(A)covenant which He made with them in Horeb.

² Now Moses called all Israel and said to them: ^(B)“You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land— ^3 (C)the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. ⁴ Yet ^(D)the Lord has not given you a heart to ^[a]perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day. ^5 (E)And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. ^(F)Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet. ^6 (G)You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or similar drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. ⁷ And when you came to this place, ^(H)Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we conquered them. ⁸ We took their land and ^(I)gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh. ⁹ Therefore ^(J)keep the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may ^(K)prosper in all that you do.

¹⁰ “All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, ¹¹ your little ones and your wives—also the stranger who is in your camp, from ^(L)the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water— ¹² that you may enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and ^(M)into His oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today, ¹³ that He may ^(N)establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you, ^(O)just as He has spoken to you, and ^(P)just as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

⁶ But the thing ^(A)displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel ^(B)prayed to the Lord.

⁷ And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for ^(A)they have not rejected you, but ^(B)they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.