Deuteronomy:11

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* Thou shalt love then Jehovah thy God , and keep his charge , and his statutes , and his ordinances , and his commandments continually . * And know ye this day ...; for [I speak ] not with your children who have not known , and who have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God , his greatness , his powerful hand , and his stretched-out arm , * and his signs and his acts which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt , and unto all his land ; * and what he did unto the army of Egypt , unto their horses , and unto their chariots , over which he made the water of the Red sea flow as they pursued after you , and Jehovah destroyed them unto this day ; * -- and what he did unto you in the wilderness , until ye came to this place ; * and what he did unto Dathan and Abiram , the sons of Eliab , the son of Reuben , -- how the earth opened its mouth , and swallowed them up , with their households , and their tents , and all the living substance that belonged to them , in the midst of all Israel . * For your eyes have seen all the great work of Jehovah which he hath done . * Keep then all the commandment which I command you this day , that ye may be strong , and enter in and possess the land , whither ye pass over to possess it ; * and that ye may prolong your days in the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers to give unto them and unto their seed , a land flowing with milk and honey . * For the land , whither thou enterest 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 ; * but the land , whereunto ye are passing over to possess it , is a land of mountains and valleys , which drinketh water of the rain of heaven , * a land which Jehovah thy God careth for ; the eyes of Jehovah thy God are constantly upon it , from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year . * And it shall come to pass , if ye hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day , to love Jehovah your God , and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul , * that I will give rain to your land in its season , the early rain and the latter rain ; and thou shalt gather in thy corn , and thy new wine , and thine oil ; * and I will give grass in thy field for thy cattle ; and thou shalt eat and be full . * Take heed to yourselves , that your heart be not deceived , and ye turn aside and serve other gods , and bow down to them , * and Jehovah 's wrath kindle against you , and he shut up the heavens , that there be no rain , and that the ground yield not its produce , and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving you . * And ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul , and bind them for a sign upon your hand , and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes . * And ye shall teach them unto your children , speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house , and when thou goest on the way , and when thou liest down , and when thou risest up ; * and write them upon the posts of thy house , and upon thy gates ; * that your days may be multiplied , and the days of your children , in the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers to give them , as the days of the heavens [which are ] above the earth . * For if ye diligently keep all this commandment which I command you [this day ] to do it , to love Jehovah your God , to walk in all his ways , and to cleave unto him , * then will Jehovah dispossess all these nations from before you , and ye shall take possession of nations greater and mightier than yourselves . * Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours ; from the wilderness and Lebanon , from the river , the river Euphrates , even unto the hinder sea shall your border be . * No man shall be able to stand before you : the fear of you and the dread of you will Jehovah your God lay upon all the land that ye shall tread upon , as he hath said unto you . * See , I set before you this day a blessing and a curse : * a blessing , if ye obey the commandments of Jehovah your God , which I command you this day ; * and a curse , if ye will not obey the commandments of Jehovah your God , but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day , to go after other gods which ye have not known . * And it shall come to pass , when Jehovah thy God hath brought thee into the land whither thou enterest in to possess it , that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim , and the curse upon mount Ebal . * Are they not on the other side of the Jordan , beyond the way toward the going down of the sun , in the land of the Canaanites that dwell on the plain opposite to Gilgal , beside the oaks of Moreh ? * For ye pass over the Jordan to enter in to possess the land which Jehovah your God giveth you , and ye shall take possession of it , and dwell therein . * And ye shall take heed to do all the statutes and ordinances which I set before you this day .

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