Chapter 11
1 Therefore you shall love the LORD your God , and keep his instructions , his statutes , his ordinances , and his commandments , always .
2 Know this day — for I don’t speak with your children who have not known , and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God , his greatness , his mighty hand , his outstretched arm ,
3 his signs, and his works , which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt , and to all his land;
4 and what he did to the army of Egypt , to their horses , and to their chariots ; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you , and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day ;
5 and what he did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place ;
6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben — how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up , with their households , their tents, and every living thing that followed them , in the middle of all Israel ;
7 but your eyes have seen all of the LORD ’s great work which he did .
8 Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today , that you may be strong , and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess ;
9 and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring , a land flowing with milk and honey .
10 For the land, where you go in to possess isn’t like the land of Egypt that you came out of , where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot , as a garden of herbs ;
11 but the land that you go over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky ,
12 a land which the LORD your God cares for . The LORD your God ’s eyes are always on it , from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year .
13 It shall happen , if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today , to love the LORD your God , and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul ,
14 that I will give the rain for your land in its season , the early rain and the latter rain , that you may gather in your grain , your new wine , and your oil .
15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full .
16 Be careful , lest your heart be deceived , and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them ;
17 and the LORD ’s anger be kindled against you , and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain , and the land doesn’t yield its fruit ; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you .
18 Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul . You shall bind them for a sign on your hand , and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes .
19 You shall teach them to your children , talking of them when you sit in your house , when you walk by the way , when you lie down , and when you rise up .
20 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates ;
21 that your days and your children ’s days may be multiplied in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them , as the days of the heavens above the earth .
22 For if you 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 cling to him —
23 then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you , and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves .
24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon , from the river , the river Euphrates , even to the western sea shall be your border .
25 No man will be able to stand before you . The LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on , as he has spoken to you .
26 Behold , I set before you today a blessing and a curse :
27 the blessing , if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God , which I command you today ;
28 and the curse , if you do not listen to the commandments of the LORD your God , but turn away out of the way which I command you today , to go after other gods which you have not known .
29 It shall happen , when the LORD your God brings you into the land that you go to possess , that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim , and the curse on Mount Ebal .
30 Aren’t they beyond the Jordan , behind the way of the going down of the sun , in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah near Gilgal , beside the oaks of Moreh ?
31 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you , and you shall possess it and dwell in it .
32 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today .