[1] "You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, his
statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments always. [2] And consider
this day (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or
seen it), consider the discipline of the LORD your God, his greatness, his
mighty hand and his outstretched arm, [3] his signs and his deeds which he
did in 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 overflow them as they pursued after 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 Abi'ram the sons of Eli'ab, 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 midst of all Israel; [7] for your
eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which he did. [8] "You shall
therefore keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you
may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land which you are
going over to possess, [9] and that you may live long in the land which the
LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land
flowing with milk and honey. [10] For the land which you are entering to
take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have
come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet, like a
garden of vegetables; [11] but the land which you are going over to possess
is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven,
[12] a land which the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your
God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the
year. [13] "And if you will obey 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, [14] he will give the rain for your land in its season,
the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and
your wine and your oil. [15] And he will give grass in your fields for your
cattle, and you shall eat and be full. [16] Take heed lest your heart be
deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them, [17]
and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the
heavens, so that there be no rain, and the land yield no fruit, and you
perish quickly off the good land which the LORD gives you. [18] "You shall
therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul; and
you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as
frontlets between your eyes. [19] And you shall teach them to your
children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you
are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. [20] And
you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates,
[21] that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the
land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the
heavens are above the earth. [22] For if you will be careful to do all this
commandment which I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in
all his ways, and cleaving to him, [23] then the LORD will drive out all
these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and
mightier than yourselves. [24] Every place on which the sole of your foot
treads shall be yours; your territory shall be from the wilderness and
Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphra'tes, to the western sea. [25]
No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will lay the
fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread, as
he promised you. [26] "Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a
curse: [27] the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your
God, which I command you this day, [28] and the curse, if you do not obey
the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I
command you this day, to go after other gods which you have not known. [29]
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering
to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Ger'izim and
the curse on Mount Ebal. [30] Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the
road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who
live in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh? [31] For
you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land
which the LORD your God gives you; and when you possess it and live in it,
[32] you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I
set before you this day.