rsv Deuteronomy:11:9-24 SEEK
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and that you may live long in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants ,
a land flowing with milk and honey .
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For the land which you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt ,
from which you have come ,
where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet ,
like a garden of vegetables ;
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but the land which you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys ,
which drinks water by the rain from heaven ,
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a land which the LORD your God cares for ;
the eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it ,
from the beginning of the year to the end of the year .
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And if you will obey 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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he will give the rain for your land in its season ,
the early rain and the later rain ,
that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil .
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And he will give grass in your fields for your cattle ,
and you shall eat and be full .
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Take heed lest your heart be deceived ,
and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them ,
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and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you ,
and he shut up the heavens ,
so that there be no rain ,
and the land yield no fruit ,
and you perish quickly off the good land which the LORD gives you .
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You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul ;
and you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand ,
and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes .
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And you shall teach them to your children ,
talking of them when you are sitting in your house ,
and when you are walking by the way ,
and when you lie down ,
and when you rise .
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And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates ,
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that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them ,
as long as the heavens are above the earth .
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For if you will be careful to do all this commandment which I command you to do ,
loving the LORD your God ,
walking in all his ways ,
and cleaving to him ,
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then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you ,
and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves .
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Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours ;
your territory shall be from the wilderness and Lebanon and from the River ,
the river Euphra '
tes ,
to the western sea .