Deuteronomy 11

11Therefore thou shalt ^alove the Lord thy God, and ^bkeep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. ²And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen ^cthe chastisement of the Lord your God, ^dhis greatness, ^ehis mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, ^3fAnd his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; ⁴And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; ^ghow 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; ⁵And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; ⁶And ^hwhat 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 ^||isubstance that ^†was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: ⁷But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did. ⁸Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may ^kbe strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; ⁹And ^lthat ye may prolong your days in the land, ^mwhich the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, ⁿa land that floweth with milk and honey. ¹⁰For 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 ^owateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: ^11pBut the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: ¹²A land which the Lord thy God ^†careth for: ^qthe eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. ¹³And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, ^rto love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹⁴That ^sI will give you the rain of your land in his due season, ^tthe first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. ^15uAnd I will ^†send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest ^xeat and be full. ¹⁶Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not ^ydeceived, and ye turn aside, and ^zserve other gods, and worship them; ¹⁷And then ^athe Lord’s wrath be kindled against you, and ^bhe shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that ^cthe land yield not her fruit; and lest ^dye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you. ¹⁸Therefore ^eshall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and ^fbind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. ^19gAnd 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. ^20hAnd thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: ²¹That ⁱyour days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, ^kas the days of heaven upon the earth. ²²For if ^lye 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 ^mto cleave unto him; ²³Then will the Lord ⁿdrive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall ^opossess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. ^24pEvery place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: ^qfrom the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto ^rthe uttermost sea shall your coast be. ^25sThere shall no man be able to stand before you: for the Lord your God shall lay ^tthe fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, ^uas he hath said unto you.

^26wBehold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; ^27xA blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: ²⁸And a ^ycurse, 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, ^zto go after other gods, which ye have not known. ²⁹And 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 ^athe blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. ³⁰Are 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 ^bthe plains of ^cMoreh? ³¹For ye ^dshall 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. ³²And ye shall observe ^eto do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.