# their brothers, their nobles "their fellow brothers the nobles". These phrases refer to the same people. # bound themselves with both a curse and an oath "they took an oath and called for a curse to come on themselves if they failed to keep it" # to walk in God's law "to live by God's law" or "to obey God's law" # which was given by Moses the servant of God "which Moses the servant of God had given to Israel" # to observe "to follow"