[1] Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his charge, and his
statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always. [2] Know you
this day: for I don`t speak with your children who have not known, and who
have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his
mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, [3] and his signs, and his works,
which he did in the midst 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 after you, and how Yahweh 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, and their
households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in
the midst of all Israel: [7] but your eyes have seen all the great work of
Yahweh which he did. [8] Therefore shall you keep all the commandment which
I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the
land, where you go over to possess it; [9] and that you may prolong your
days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to
their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey. [10] For the land, where
you go in to possess it, isn`t as the land of Egypt, from whence you came
out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden
of herbs; [11] but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of
hills and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky, [12] a land
which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God 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 this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all
your heart and with all your soul, [14] that I will give the rain of your
land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may
gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil. [15] I will give
grass in your fields for your cattle, and you shall eat and be full. [16]
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside,
and serve other gods, and worship them; [17] and the anger of Yahweh be
kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no
rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from
off the good land which Yahweh gives you. [18] Therefore shall you lay up
these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for
a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes. [19]
You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your
house, and when you walk by the way, and 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 may be multiplied, and the days of your
children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as
the days of the heavens above the earth. [22] For if you shall diligently
keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh
your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him; [23] then will
Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall
dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. [24] Every place
whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the
wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the
hinder sea shall be your border. [25] There shall no man be able to stand
before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you
on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you. [26]
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: [27] the
blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which
I command you this day; [28] and the curse, if you shall not listen to the
commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I
command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
[29] It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land
where you go to possess it, 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, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
[31] For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which
Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.
[32] You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I
set before you this day.
