“Today you have
declared allegiance to God, making Him your God, and pledging to walk in His
paths, keep His decrees, commandments and laws, and to obey His voice.” (26:17)
“God has similarly
declared allegiance to you today, making you His special nation as He promised you.”
(26:18)
On entering the Promised land we need to do
the following:
* Offering of the first fruit has to be
brought to the Temple (26:1 – 26:11)
* The third year tithe needs to be given:
”When you have finished taking all the tithes of your grain for the
third year, which is the special tithe year, you must give them to the Levite,
and to the foreignerto, orphan and widow, so that they will eat their fill in
your settlements.” (26:12)
* All offerings need to be kept ritually
clean (26:14).
* We need to erect large stones on Mount
Ebal and write on them all the words of this Torah and build a stone altar and
not lift any iron to it. (27:2-27:5)
We will be cursed for the following
transgressions:
* Idolatry
* Disrespect towards parents
* Moving neighbor’s boundary marker
(disrespect for property rights)
* Misdirecting the blind
* Perverting justice for foreigner, orphan
or widow
* Sex with father’s wife (disrespect for
father’s privacy)
* Sex with an animal
* Sex with a sibling
* Sex with mother-in-law
* Killing a neighbor in secret
* Taking a bribe to put an innocent man to
death
* Not upholding this entire Torah
If we safeguard the words of this
covenantand keep them, we will be successful in all we do. (29:8)
And if not we will be cursed with most awful
curses.