Bible, King James Version
Deuteronomy
Deut.11
[1] Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep
his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his
commandments, alway.
[2] 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,
[3] 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] 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;
[5] And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye
came into this place;
[6] 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] But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD
which he did.
[8] 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;
[9] 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.
[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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