1 “ Love the Lord your God. Always do what He tells you and keep all His Laws.

Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway.

2 I am not speaking to your children. They have not seen how the Lord worked and how great He is.

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 T hey have not seen the special things you have seen, what He did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land.

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 T hey have not seen what He did to Egypt’s army, the horses and war-wagons. He made the water of the Red Sea flow over them while they were coming after you. He destroyed every one of them.

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 T hey have not seen what He did to you in the desert until you came to this place.

and what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place;

6 T hey do not know what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, those of their house, their tents, and every living thing that followed them among Israel.

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 B ut your own eyes have seen all the great work the Lord has done.

but your eyes have seen all the great work of Jehovah which he did.

8 “ So keep every Law which I am telling you today. And you will be strong and go in and take the land which is to be yours.

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 Y ou will live long in the land the Lord promised to your fathers and their children, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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 F or the land you are going in to take is not like the land you came from in Egypt. There you planted your seed and watered it using your feet, like a vegetable garden.

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 B ut the land you are about to go into and take for your own is a land of hills and valleys. It drinks water from the rain of heaven.

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 T he Lord your God cares for this land. His eyes watch over it from the beginning to the end of the year.

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 “ Listen to and obey all the Laws I am telling you today. Love the Lord your God. Work for Him with all your heart and soul. If you do,

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 H e will give the rain for your land at the right times, the early and late rain. So you may gather in your grain, your new wine and your oil.

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 H e will give grass in your fields for your cattle. And you will eat and be filled.

And I will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be full.

16 B e careful not to let your hearts be fooled so you turn away and work for other gods and worship them.

Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

17 O r the anger of the Lord will burn against you. He will shut the heavens so there will be no rain and the ground will not give its fruit. Then you will be quick to die from the good land the Lord is giving you.

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 “ Keep these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. Tie them as something special to see upon your hand and on your forehead between your eyes.

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 T each them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.

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 W rite them beside the door of your house and on your gates.

And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates;

21 A nd your days and the days of your children will become many in the land the Lord promised to give to your fathers, as long as the heavens are above the earth.

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 B e careful to obey all this Law which I am telling you. Love the Lord your God. Walk in all His ways and hold on to Him. If you do,

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 t he Lord will drive out all these nations in front of you. And you will take for your own what has belonged to nations greater and stronger than you.

then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

24 E very place where your foot steps will be yours. Your land will be from the desert to Lebanon, and from the River Euphrates to the sea in the west.

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 T here no man will be able to stand in front of you. The Lord your God will put the fear of you on all the land where you walk, as He has promised you.

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 “ See, I am putting in front of you today good and a curse.

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

27 G ood will come to you if you listen to the Laws of the Lord your God, which I am telling you today.

the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day;

28 B ut a curse will come to you if you do not listen to the Laws of the Lord your God and turn aside from the way I am telling you today, by following other gods you have not known.

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 W hen the Lord your God brings you into the land which is to be yours, you are to speak on Mount Gerizim about the good and on Mount Ebal the curses.

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 Y ou know they are on the other side of the Jordan, west of the road where the sun goes down. They are in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, beside Gilgal, next to the trees of Moreh.

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 Y ou are about to cross the Jordan to go in to take the land the Lord your God is giving you. It will be your land and you will live in it.

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 B e careful to obey all the Laws which I am giving you today.

And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.