16. Don’t test the Lord your God the way you frustrated him at Massah.
17. You must carefully follow the Lord your God’s commands along with the laws and regulations he has given you.
18. Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight so that things will go well for you and so you will enter and take possession of the wonderful land that the Lord swore to your ancestors,
19. and so the Lord will drive out all your enemies from before you, just as he promised.
20. In the future, your children will ask you, "What is the meaning of the laws, the regulations, and the case laws that the Lord our God commanded you?"
21. tell them: We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. But the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
22. Before our own eyes, the Lord performed great and awesome deeds of power against Egypt, Pharaoh, and his entire dynasty.