REMEMBER AND OBEY

11 “Therefore, love the Lord your God and always keep his mandate and his statutes, ordinances, and commands. 2 Understand today that it is not your children who experienced or saw the discipline of the Lord your God:

His greatness, strong hand, and outstretched arm;p 3 his signs and the works he did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;q 4 what he did to Egypt’s army, its horses and chariots, when he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued you, and he destroyed themr completely;B 5 what he did to you in the wilderness until you reached this place; 6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when in the middle of the whole Israelite camp the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing with them.s

7 Your own eyes have seent every great work the Lord has done.

8 “Keep every command I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to cross into and possess the land you are to inherit, 9 and so that you may live longu in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.v 10 For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by handC as in a vegetable garden. 11 But the land you are entering to possess is a land of mountains and valleys, watered by rain from the sky. 12 It is a land the Lord your God cares for. He is always watching over itw from the beginning to the end of the year.

13 “If you carefully obey my commands I am giving you today, to love the Lord your God and worship him with all your heart and all your soul, 14 ID will provide rain for your land in the proper time, the autumn and spring rains,x and you will harvest your grain, new wine, and fresh oil.y 15 IE will provide grass in your fields for your livestock. You will eat and be satisfied.z 16 Be carefulaa that you are not enticed to turn aside, serve, and bow in worship to other gods.ab 17 Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you.ac He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain;ad the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good landae the Lord is giving you.

18 “Imprint these words of mine on your hearts and minds, bind them as a sign on your hands, and let them be a symbol* on your foreheads.* 19 Teach them to your children,af talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates,ag 21 so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors.ah