Deuteronomy:11:1-23
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Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God ,
and keep his charge ,
and his statutes ,
and his judgments ,
and his commandments ,
alway .
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And know ye this day :
for I speak not with your children which have not known ,
and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God ,
his greatness ,
his mighty hand ,
and his stretched out arm ,
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And his miracles ,
and his acts ,
which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt ,
and unto all his land ;
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And what he did unto the army of Egypt ,
unto their horses ,
and to their chariots ;
how 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 ;
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And what he did unto you in the wilderness ,
until ye came into this place ;
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And what 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 substance that was in their possession ,
in the midst of all Israel :
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But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did .
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Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day ,
that ye may be strong ,
and go in and possess the land ,
whither ye go to possess it ;
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And that ye may prolong your days in the land ,
which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed ,
a land that floweth with milk and honey .
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For 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 wateredst it with thy foot ,
as a garden of herbs :
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But the land ,
whither ye go to possess it ,
is a land of hills and valleys ,
and drinketh water of the rain of heaven :
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A land which the LORD thy God careth for :
the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it ,
from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year .
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And it shall come to pass ,
if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day ,
to love the LORD your God ,
and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul ,
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That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season ,
the first rain and the latter rain ,
that thou mayest gather in thy corn ,
and thy wine ,
and thine oil .
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And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle ,
that thou mayest eat and be full .
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Take heed to yourselves ,
that your heart be not deceived ,
and ye turn aside ,
and serve other gods ,
and worship them ;
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And then the LORD '
S wrath be kindled against you ,
and he shut up the heaven ,
that there be no rain ,
and that the land yield not her fruit ;
and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you .
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Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul ,
and bind them for a sign upon your hand ,
that they may be as frontlets between your eyes .
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And 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 .
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And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house ,
and upon thy gates :
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That your days may be multiplied ,
and the days of your children ,
in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them ,
as the days of heaven upon the earth .
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For if ye 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 to cleave unto him ;
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Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you ,
and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves .