Deuteronomy Chapter 11

Deuteronomy Chapter 11
1 Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy
God, and shalt keep that, which he
commandeth to be kept: that is, his
ordinances, and his laws, and his
commandments alway.
2 And consider this day ( for I speak not
to your children, which have neither
known nor seen) the chastisement of the
Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty
hand, and his stretched out arm,
3 And his signs, 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 host of the
Egyptians, unto their horses, and to their
chariots, when he caused the waters of
the Red Sea to overflow them, as they
pursued after you, and the Lord
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, when
the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed them with their households
and their tents, and all their substance
that they had in the midst of all Israel.
7 For 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 Also that ye may prolong your days in
the land, which the Lord swear unto your
fathers, to give unto them and to their
seed, even a land that floweth with milk
and honey.
10 For the land whither thou goest to
possess it, is not as the land of Egypt,
from whence ye came, where thou
sowest thy seed, and waterest it with thy
feet as a garden of herbs:
11 But the land whither ye go to possess
it, is a land of mountains and valleys,
and drinketh water of the rain of heaven.
12 This land doth the Lord thy God care
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 If ye shall hearken therefore unto my
commandments, which I command you
this day, that ye love the Lord your God
and serve him with all your heart, and
with all your soul,
14 I also will give rain unto your land in
due time, the first rain and the latter, that
thou mayest gather in thy wheat, and thy
wine, and thine oil. 15 Also I will send
grass in thy fields, for thy cattle, that
thou mayest eat, and have enough.
16 But beware lest your heart deceive
you, and lest ye turn aside, and serve
other gods, and worship them,
17 And so the anger of the Lord be
kindled against you, and he shut up the
heaven, that there be no rain, and that
your land yield not her fruit, and ye
perish quickly from 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 a frontlet 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, and when thou liest
down, and when thou risest up.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the
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 swear unto your fathers
to give them, as long as the heavens are
above the earth.
22 For if ye keep diligently all these
commandments, which I command you to
do: that is, to love the Lord your God, to
walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto
him,
23 Then will the Lord cast out all these
nations before you, and ye shall possess
great nations and mightier than you.
24 All the places whereon the soles of
your feet shall tread, shall be yours: your
coast shall be from the wilderness and
from Lebanon, and from the river, even
the river Perath, unto the uttermost sea.
25 No man shall stand against you: for
the Lord your God shall cast the fear and
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 The blessing, if ye obey the
commandments of the Lord your God
which I command you this day:
28 And the curse, if ye will not obey the
commandments of the Lord your God,
but turn out of the way, which I
command you this day, to go after other
gods, which ye have not known.
29 When the Lord thy God therefore hath
brought thee into the land, whither thou
goest to possess it, then thou shalt put the
blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the
curse upon mount Ebal.
30 Are they not beyond Jordan on that
part, where the sun goeth down in the
land of the Canaanites, which dwell in
the plain over against Gilgal, beside the
grove 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 Take
heed therefore that ye do all the
commandments and the laws, which I set
before you this day.