Deuteronomy 11

1Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his judgments, and his commandments all your days.

2And know today that that I am not speaking to your children, who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm—

3and his signs and his deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to all his land—

4and what he did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and its chariots, when he made the waters of the Red Sea overflow over them as they pursued you, and Yahweh destroyed them to this day,

5and what he did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place—

6and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing at their feet, in the midst of all Israel.

7For your own eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh that he did.

8So keep every commandment that I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land that you are crossing over to possess.

9so that you may live long on the land that Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a vegetable garden.

11But the land that you are crossing over to possess is a land of mountains and valleys; it drinks water from the rain of heaven.

12a land that Yahweh your God cares for; the eyes of Yahweh your God are continually on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

13And if you indeed listen to my commandments that I am commanding you today, to love Yahweh your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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

15And I will give grass in your field for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.

16Be careful lest your heart be deceived and you turn aside and serve other gods and bow down to them.

17Then Yahweh’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain, and the ground will not yield its produce; and you will perish quickly from the good land that Yahweh is giving you.

18So you shall place these words of mine on your heart and on your soul, and you shall 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, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

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

21so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land that Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

22For if you carefully keep all this commandment that I am commanding you to do—to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—

23then Yahweh will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.

24Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours; from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the River, the Euphrates River, as far as the western sea, will be your border.

25No man will stand before you. Yahweh your God will put the fear and dread of you on the face of all the land on which you tread, just as he spoke to you.

26See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse.

27the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I am commanding you today.

28and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, and turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.

29And when Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

30Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

31For you are crossing the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving you, and you will take possession of it and live in it.

32And you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments that I am setting before you today.