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

¶ Therefore, thou shalt love the LORD thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his rights and his commandments, always.

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 who have not known and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD 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 miracles and his acts, 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 the LORD has 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 with you in the wilderness until ye came into 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 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;

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

but your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD 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.

¶ Keep, therefore, all the commandments which I command you this day that ye may be strong and enter in and inherit the land, into which ye go to inherit 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 the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that flows 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, into which thou goest to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, from which ye came out, where thou didst sow thy seed and water 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.

The land, into which ye go to inherit it, is a land of mountains and valleys and drinks 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 the LORD thy God procures; 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 “ 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 the LORD 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 you the rain of your land in its due season, the early rain and the latter rain, and thou shalt gather in thy grain and thy 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 send grass in thy fields for thy beasts, 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.

Keep yourselves, therefore, that your heart not 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 then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you and he shut up the heavens, 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 gives 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, ye shall 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 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 to your children that ye may think of them sitting in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising 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 thine 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, upon the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens upon 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 these commandments which I command you, to do them, loving the LORD your God and walking in all his ways, 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 the LORD will drive out all these Gentiles from before you, and ye shall possess 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 upon which the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours, from the wilderness and Lebanon; from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the western 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.

No one shall 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 has said unto you.

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

¶ Behold, I set before you this day the blessing and the 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 hear the commandments of the LORD 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 will not hear 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 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 the LORD thy God has brought thee in unto the land where thou goest to inherit it that thou shalt put 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.

which are on the other side of the Jordan, by the way of the west, in the land of the Canaanite, who dwells in the plain over against Gilgal, beside the plains 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 shall pass the Jordan to go in to inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you, and ye shall possess it and dwell therein.

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

Keep yourselves, therefore, to do all the statutes and rights which I set before you this day.