¶ Therefore thou shalt¹ love the LORD thy God, and keep² his charge, and his statutes³, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

And know⁴ ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement⁵ of the LORD your God, his greatness⁶, his mighty⁷ hand, and his stretched out arm,

⁸And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;

And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made⁹ the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;

¹⁰And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;

And what he did unto¹¹ 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:

¹³But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.

¶ Therefore¹⁴ shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may¹⁵ be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;

And that ye may prolong¹⁶ your days in the land, which the LORD sware¹⁷ unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land¹⁸ that floweth with milk and honey.

¶ 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 foot¹⁹, as a garden of herbs:

²⁰But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:

A land which the LORD thy God careth for²¹: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently²² unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love²³ the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

²⁴That 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.

And I will²⁵ send²⁶ grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

Take heed²⁷ to yourselves, that your heart²⁸ be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve²⁹ other gods, and worship them;

And then the LORD'S³⁰ wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up³¹ the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish³² quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

¶ Therefore shall ye lay up³³ these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign³⁴ upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

³⁵And 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.

¶³⁶And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

That your days³⁷ may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days³⁸ of heaven upon the earth.

For if ye shall³⁹ diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love⁴⁰ the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave⁴¹ unto him;

⁴²Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

⁴³Every 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.

There shall⁴⁴ 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 hath⁴⁵ said unto you.

¶⁴⁶Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

⁴⁷A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:

⁴⁸And 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.

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 blessing⁴⁹ upon mount Gerizim⁵⁰, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

¶ 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 Gilgal⁵², beside the plains of Moreh?

⁵³For 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.

⁵⁴And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.