Deuteronomy:11

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* Thou shalt therefore love the Lord thy God , and keep his charge , and his statutes , and his ordinances , and his commandments , all the days . * And ye shall know this day , that not with your children who have not known , and who have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God , his greatness , his strong hand , and his outstretched arm ; * And his signs , and his acts , which he displayed 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 its horses , and to its chariots ; over whom he caused the water of the Red Sea to flow , as they pursued after you , and whom the Lord destroyed unto this day ; * And what he did unto you in the wilderness , until ye came unto this place ; * 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 living substance that followed them , in the midst of all Israel ; * But it is your own eyes which have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he hath done . * Ye shall therefore keep all the commandment which I command you this day , that ye may be strong , and go in and take possession of the land , whither ye go over to possess it ; * And in order that ye may live many days in the land , which the Lord hath sworn unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed , a land flowing with milk and honey . * For the land , whither thou goest in to possess it , is not like the land of Egypt , from where ye came out , where thou sowest thy seed , and waterest it with thy foot , as a garden of herbs ; * But the land , whither ye go over to possess it , is a land of mountains and valleys , from the rain of heaven doth it drink water . * A land which the Lord thy God careth for ; always are the eyes of the Lord thy God upon it , from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year . * And it shall come to pass , if ye will 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 , * That I will send rain for your land in its due season , the first rain and the latter rain , that thou mayest gather in thy corn , and thy wine , and thy oil . * And I will give grass in thy field for thy cattle ; and thou shalt eat and be satisfied , * Take heed to yourselves , that your heart be not deceived , and ye turn aside , and serve other gods , and worship them ; * then the Lord ’s wrath will be kindled against you , and he will shut up the heavens that there be no rain , and the land will not yield her products ; and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth unto you . * Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul ; and ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand , and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes . * And ye shall teach them to your children , to speak of them when thou sittest in thy house , and when thou walkest by the way , and when thou liest down , and when thou risest up . * And thou shalt write them upon the door –posts of thy house , and upon thy gates . * In order that your days may be multiplied , and the days of your children , in the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers to give unto them , as the days of the heavens over the earth . * For if ye will diligently keep all this commandment which I command you , in order to do it , to love the Lord your God , to walk in all his ways , and to cleave unto him : * Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you , and ye shall supplant nations greater and mightier than yourselves . * Every place whereon the sole of your foot may tread shall be yours : from the wilderness and the Lebanon , from the river , the river Euphrates , even unto the Western Sea shall be your boundary . * There shall no man be able to stand up before you ; the dread of you and the fear of you will the Lord your God lay upon all the land which ye may tread upon , as he hath spoken unto you . * Behold , I lay before you this day a blessing and a curse : * The blessing , if ye will hearken unto the commandments of the Lord your God , which I command you this day ; * And the curse , if ye will not hearken unto the commandments of the Lord your God , and ye turn aside out of the way which I command you this day , to go after other gods , which ye know not . * And it shall come to pass , when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it , that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizzim , and the curse upon mount ‘Ebal . * Behold , they are on the other side of the Jordan , far away in the direction of the going down of the sun , in the land of the Canaanites , who dwell in the plain , opposite Gilgal , near the grove of Moreh . * For ye are about to pass over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land which the Lord your God giveth you ; and ye will possess it , and dwell therein . * And ye shall then observe to do all the statutes and ordinances which I set before you this day .

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