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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.
02 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,
03 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;
04 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;
05 And what he did unto you in the wilderness,
until ye came into this place;
06 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:
07 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of
the Lord which he did.
08 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;
09 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.
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 to possess it, is
a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water
of the rain of heaven:
12 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.
13 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,
14 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.
15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy
cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be
not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other
gods, and worship them;
17 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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17 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.
18 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.
19 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.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts
of thine house, and upon thy gates:
21 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.
22 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;
23 Then will the Lord drive out all these nations
from before you, and ye shall possess greater
nations and mightier than yourselves.
24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet
shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness
and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates,
even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
25 There shall no man be able to stand before
you: for the Lord 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 said unto you.
26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing
and a curse;
27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the
Lord your God, which I command you this day:
28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the
commandments of the Lord 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 the Lord thy
God hath brought thee in unto the land whither
thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the
blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon
mount Ebal.
30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the
way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the
Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over
against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to
possess the land which the Lord your God giveth
you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes
and judgments which I set before you this day.
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