Deuteronomy 11

You shall love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his judgments, and his commandments always. Know today that I am not speaking with your children, who have not known or seen the discipline of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and outstretched arm, his signs and deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to all his land, and what he did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and chariots, when he caused the waters of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and the LORD destroyed them to this day; what he did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place; and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing in their possession, in the midst of all Israel. For it was your own eyes that saw all the great work the LORD did. Therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, so that you may be strong and enter and possess the land you are crossing over to possess, and so that you may prolong your days on the land the LORD swore to give to your fathers and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a vegetable garden. But the land you are crossing over to possess is a land of hills and valleys that drinks water from the rain of heaven, a land the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. If you diligently listen to my commandments that I command you today, loving the LORD your God and serving him with all your heart and all your soul, I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, and you will gather your grain, your new wine, and your oil. I will give grass in your field for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied. Guard yourselves, lest your heart be deceived and you turn aside and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that there is no rain and the ground does not yield its produce, and you will quickly perish from the good land the LORD is giving you. Lay these words of mine on your heart and your soul. Bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be bands between your eyes. Teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the way, when you lie down and when you rise. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied on the land the LORD swore to give your fathers, like the days of heaven over the earth. For if you diligently keep this whole commandment that I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. Every place where the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. No one shall stand before you. The LORD your God will put the dread and fear of you on all the land you tread, as he has told you. See, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today; and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I command you today to follow other gods you have not known. When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you shall place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. Are they not beyond the Jordan, beyond the way toward the setting of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? For you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you. You shall possess it and live in it. Be careful to do all the statutes and judgments that I set before you today.

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