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1 Therefore you
shall love the
LORD your God,
and keep his
instructions, his
statutes, his
ordinances, and
his commandments,
always.
2 Know
this day—for
I don’t speak with
your children who
have not known,
and who have
not seen the
chastisement of
the LORD your
God, his greatness,
his mighty hand,
his outstretched
arm,
3 his signs,
and his works,
which he did
in the middle
of Egypt to
Pharaoh the king
of Egypt, and
to all his land;
4 and
what he did
to the army
of Egypt, to
their horses, and
to their chariots;
how he made
the water of
the Red Sea
to overflow them
as they pursued
you, and how
the LORD
has destroyed them
to this day;
5 and
what he did
to you in
the wilderness
until you came to
this place;
6 and
what he did
to Dathan
and Abiram, the
sons of Eliab, the
son of Reuben—how
the earth opened
its mouth and
swallowed them up,
with their
households, their tents,
and every living
thing that
followed them, in
the middle of
all Israel;
7 but
your eyes have
seen all of
the LORD’s great
work which he
did.
8 Therefore
you shall keep
the entire
commandment which
I command you
today, that you
may be strong,
and go in
and possess
the land that you
go over to
possess;
9 and
that you
may prolong your
days in the land
which the LORD
swore to
your fathers to
give to them
and to their
offspring, a land
flowing with milk
and honey.
10 For
the land, where
you go in
to possess isn’t
like the land of
Egypt that you
came out of,
where you sowed
your seed and
watered it with
your foot, as
a garden of
herbs;
11 but
the land that
you go over to
possess is a
land of hills
and valleys which
drinks water from
the rain of
the sky,
12 a land
which the LORD
your God cares
for. The LORD
your God’s eyes
are always on
it, from the
beginning of the
year even to
the end of the
year.
13 It
shall happen, if
you shall listen
diligently to my
commandments which
I command you
today, to love the
LORD your God,
and to serve
him with all
your heart and
with all your
soul,
14 that
I will give
the rain for
your land in its
season, the early
rain and the
latter rain, that
you may gather in
your grain, your
new wine, and
your oil.
15 I
will give grass
in your fields
for your livestock,
and you shall eat
and be full.
16 Be
careful, lest your
heart be deceived,
and you turn
away to serve other
gods and worship
them;
17 and
the LORD’s anger
be kindled against
you, and he
shut up the
sky so that
there is no
rain, and the
land doesn’t yield
its fruit; and
you perish quickly
from off the
good land which
the LORD gives
you.
18 Therefore
you shall lay
up these words
of mine in
your heart and
in your soul.
You shall bind
them for a sign
on your hand,
and they shall
be for frontlets
between your eyes.
19 You
shall teach them
to your children,
talking of them
when you sit
in your house,
when you walk
by the way,
when you lie
down, and when
you rise up.
20 You
shall write them
on the door
posts of your
house and on
your gates;
21 that
your days and
your children’s
days may be
multiplied in the
land which the
LORD swore to
your fathers to
give them, as
the days of
the heavens above
the earth.
22 For
if you shall
diligently keep
all these
commandments which
I command you—to
do them, to love
the LORD your
God, to walk
in all his
ways, and to
cling to him—
23 then
the LORD will
drive out all
these nations from
before you, and
you shall
dispossess nations
greater and
mightier than
yourselves.
24 Every
place on which
the sole of
your foot treads
shall be yours:
from the
wilderness and
Lebanon, from the
river, the river
Euphrates, even to
the western sea
shall be your
border.
25 No
man will be able
to stand before
you. The LORD
your God will
lay the fear
of you and
the dread of
you on all
the land that
you tread on,
as he has
spoken to you.
26 Behold,
I set before
you today a
blessing and a
curse:
27 the
blessing, if you
listen to the
commandments of
the LORD your
God, which I
command you today;
28 and
the curse, if you
do not listen
to the
commandments of
the LORD your
God, but turn
away out of
the way which
I command you
today, to go
after other gods which
you have not
known.
29 It
shall happen, when
the LORD your
God brings you
into the land that
you go to
possess, that you
shall set the
blessing on Mount
Gerizim, and the
curse on Mount
Ebal.
30 Aren’t they
beyond the Jordan,
behind the way of
the going down
of the sun,
in the land
of the Canaanites
who dwell in
the Arabah near
Gilgal, beside
the oaks of Moreh?
31 For
you are to
pass over the
Jordan to go
in to possess
the land which the
LORD your God
gives you, and
you shall possess
it and dwell
in it.
32 You
shall observe to
do all the
statutes and the
ordinances which I
set before you
today.