1 " 'This is the book of the commandments of God and of the law, which exists in eternity. All those who keep it will attain to life, but those who have forsaken it, to death.
2 Convert, O Jacob, and embrace it, walk in the way of its splendor, facing its light.
3 Do not surrender your glory to another, nor your value to a foreign people.
4 We have been happy, O Israel, because the things that are pleasing to God have been made clear to us.
5 Be ever more peaceful in soul, O people of God, the memorial of Israel.