DE-11:1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep
his charge, and
his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
DE-11:2 And know ye this day: for [I speak] not with your
children which have
not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD
your God, his
greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
DE-11:3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the
midst of Egypt
unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
DE-11:4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their
horses, and to
their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow
them as they
pursued after you, and [how] the LORD hath destroyed them unto
this day;
DE-11:5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye
came into this
place;
DE-11:6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab, the son of
Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up,
and their
households, and their tents, and all the substance that [was] in
their
possession, in the midst of all Israel:
DE-11:7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD
which he did.
DE-11:8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I
command you this
day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land,
whither ye go to
possess it;
DE-11:9 And that ye may prolong [your] days in the land, which
the LORD sware
unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land
that floweth
with milk and honey.
DE-11:10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it,
[is] not as the
land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy
seed, and
wateredst [it] with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
DE-11:11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, [is] a land
of hills and
valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
DE-11:12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of
the LORD thy
God [are] always upon it, from the beginning of the year even
unto the end of
the year.
DE-11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken
diligently unto my
commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your
God, and to
serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
DE-11:14 That I will give [you] the rain of your land in his
due season, the
first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy
corn, and thy
wine, and thine oil.
DE-11:15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle,
that thou mayest
eat and be full.
DE-11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not
deceived, and ye
turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
DE-11:17 And [then] the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you,
and he shut up
the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not
her fruit; and
[lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD
giveth you.
DE-11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart
and in your
soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be
as frontlets
between your eyes.
DE-11:19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of
them when thou
sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when
thou liest
down, and when thou risest up.
DE-11:20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine
house, and
upon thy gates:
DE-11:21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your
children, in
the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as
the days of
heaven upon the earth.
DE-11:22 For if ye 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 cleave unto him;
DE-11:23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from
before you, and
ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
DE-11:24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread
shall be
yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the
river Euphrates,
even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
DE-11:25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: [for]
the LORD your
God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the
land that ye
shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
DE-11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a
curse;
DE-11:27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD
your God, which
I command you this day:
DE-11:28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of
the LORD your
God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day,
to go after
other gods, which ye have not known.
DE-11:29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath
brought thee
in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou
shalt put the
blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
DE-11:30 [Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way
where the sun
goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the
champaign over
against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
DE-11:31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the
land which the
LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell
therein.
DE-11:32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and
judgments which I
set before you this day.
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