CHAPTER 11
You shall therefore love
the LORD
your God
and always
keep
His charge,
His statutes,
His ordinances,
and His commandments.
Know
this day
that
it is not
your children
who
have known
and
seen
the discipline
of the LORD
your God:
His greatness,
His mighty
hand,
and His outstretched
arm;
what
He did
to the Egyptian
army
and horses
and chariots
when
He made the waters
of the Red
Sea
engulf
them
as they pursued you,
and how He
destroyed them completely,
even to
this day;
and what
He did
in the midst
of all
the Israelites
to Dathan
and Abiram,
the sons
of Eliab
the Reubenite,
when
the earth
opened
its mouth
and swallowed them,
their households,
their tents,
and every
living thing
that belonged to them.
You shall therefore keep
every
commandment
I
am giving you today,
so that
you may have the strength
to go in
and possess
the land
you
are to inherit,
and so that
you may live long
in
the land
the LORD
swore
to your fathers
to give
them
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 have come,
where
you sowed
your seed
and irrigated
on foot,
like a vegetable
garden.
But the land
you
are entering
to possess
is a land
of mountains
and valleys
that drinks in
the rain
from heaven.
It is a land
the LORD
your God
cares for;
the eyes
of the LORD
your God
are always on it,
from the beginning
to
the end
of the year.
So
if
you carefully obey
the commandments
I
am giving you today,
to love
the LORD
your God
and to serve
Him with all
your heart
and all
your soul,
then I will provide
rain
for your land
in season,
the autumn and spring rains,
that you may gather
your grain,
new wine,
and oil.
or the anger
of the LORD
will be kindled
against you.
He will shut
the heavens
so that there will be
no
rain,
nor will
the land
yield
its produce,
and you will soon perish
from
the good
land
the LORD
is giving
you.
Fix
these
words of mine
in your hearts
and minds,
tie
them
as a sign
on
your hands
and bind them
on your foreheads.
Teach
them
to your children,
speaking
about them
when you sit
at home
and when you walk
along the road,
when you lie down
and when you get up.
so that
as long as
the heavens
are above
the earth,
your days
and those
of your children
may be multiplied
in
the land
the LORD
swore
to give
your fathers.
For
if
you carefully observe
all
these
commandments
I
am giving
you to follow—
to love
the LORD
your God,
to walk
in all
His ways,
and to hold fast to Him—
then the LORD
will drive out
all
these
nations
before
you,
and you will dispossess
nations
greater
and stronger than you.
Every
place
where
the sole
of your foot
treads
will be yours.
Your territory
will extend
from
the wilderness
to Lebanon,
and from
the Euphrates
River
to
the Western Sea.
No
man
will be able to stand
against you;
the LORD
your God
will put
fear
and dread
of you
upon
all
the land,
wherever
you set foot,
as
He has promised you.
There will be blessing
if
you obey
the commandments
of the LORD
your God
that
I
am giving you today,
but a curse
if
you do not
obey
the commandments
of the LORD
your God
and turn aside
from
the path
I
command
you today
by following
other
gods,
which you have not
known.
When
the LORD
your God
brings
you into
the land
you
are entering
to possess,
you are to proclaim
the blessing
on
Mount
Gerizim
and the curse
on
Mount
Ebal.
Are not
these mountains
across
the Jordan,
west
of the road
toward
the sunset,
in the land
of the Canaanites
who live
in the Arabah
opposite
Gilgal,
near
the oak
of Moreh?
For
you
are about to cross
the Jordan
to enter
and possess
the land
the LORD
your God
is giving you.
When you possess
and settle it,