Deuteronomy 11

¹“Therefore you shall love the Lord

²Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the Lord

³His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;

⁴what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the Lord

⁵what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place;

⁶and 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, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel—

⁷but your eyes have seen every great act of the Lord

⁸“Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess,

⁹and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord

¹⁰For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden;

¹¹but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven,

¹²a land for which the Lord

¹³‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord

¹⁴then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

¹⁵And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.’

¹⁶Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,

¹⁷lest the Lord

¹⁸“Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

¹⁹You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

²⁰And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

²¹that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord

²²“For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the Lord

²³then the Lord

²⁴Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.

²⁵No man shall be able to stand against you; the Lord

²⁶“Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

²⁷the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord

²⁸and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord

²⁹Now it shall be, when the Lord

³⁰Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?

³¹For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the Lord

³²And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.