Quotes About Covenant

When Moses had finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,

he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:

“Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!

Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officers so that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

But the LORDís portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

When Moses had finished reciting all these words to all Israel,

For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

On that same day the LORD said to Moses,

This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.

So the LORD became King in Jeshurun when the leaders of the people gathered, when the tribes of Israel came together.

Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah.

He said of his father and mother, ëI do not consider them.í He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,

And the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ëI will give it to your descendants.í I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”

Now after the death of His servant Moses, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Mosesí assistant, saying,

I have given you every place where the sole of your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses.

Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.

“Remember what Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you when he said, ëThe LORD your God will give you rest, and He will give you this land.í

until the LORD gives them rest as He has done for you, and your brothers also possess the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you may return to the land of your inheritance and take possession of that which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the east side of the Jordan.”

Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. And may the LORD your God be with you, as He was with Moses.