| 1 Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge,
and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway. 2 And
know ye this day: for I speak not with your children that have not
known, and that have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God, his
greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, 3 and his signs, and
his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt,
and unto all his land; 4 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 Jehovah hath destroyed them
unto this day; 5 and what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came
unto this place; 6 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, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that
followed them, in the midst of all Israel: 7 but your eyes have seen all
the great work of Jehovah which he did.
8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandment which I command thee this
day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go
over to possess it; 9 and that ye may prolong your days in the land, which
Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land
flowing with milk and honey. 10 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;
11 but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and
valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven, 12 a land which
Jehovah thy God careth for: the eyes of Jehovah thy God are always upon it,
from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall 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, 14 that I will give
the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain,
that thou mayest gather in thy grain, and thy new wine, and thine oil.
15 And I will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat
and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and
ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 and the anger of
Jehovah be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there
shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish
quickly from off the good land which Jehovah giveth you.
18 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 for
frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children,
talking 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. 20 And thou shalt
write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates; 21 that
your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which
Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens
above the earth. 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all this commandment
which I command you, to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all his
ways, and to cleave unto him; 23 then will Jehovah drive out all these
nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier
than yourselves. 24 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 be your border. 25 There shall
no man be able to stand before you: Jehovah your God shall lay the fear of
you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he
hath spoken unto you.
26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 27 the
blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God,
which I command you this day; 28 and the curse, if ye shall not hearken
unto 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. 29 And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah thy God shall bring thee
into the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt set the
blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30 Are they
not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the
land of the Canaanites that dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside
the oaks of Moreh? 31 For ye are to pass over the Jordan to go in to
possess the land which Jehovah your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it,
and dwell therein. 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and the
ordinances which I set before you this day.
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