11Deuteronomy 11

1Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.Select Deuteronomy 11:1

2And know you 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,Select Deuteronomy 11:2

3And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;Select Deuteronomy 11:3

4And 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 after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;Select Deuteronomy 11:4

5And what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came into this place;Select Deuteronomy 11:5

6And what he did to 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 middle of all Israel:Select Deuteronomy 11:6

7But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.Select Deuteronomy 11:7

8Therefore shall you keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go to possess it;Select Deuteronomy 11:8

9And that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land that flows with milk and honey. ¶Select Deuteronomy 11:9

10For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from where you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs:Select Deuteronomy 11:10

11But the land, where you go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water of the rain of heaven:Select Deuteronomy 11:11

12A land which the LORD your God cares for: the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year. ¶Select Deuteronomy 11:12

13And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to 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,Select Deuteronomy 11:13

14That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil.Select Deuteronomy 11:14

15And I will send grass in your fields for your cattle, that you may eat and be full.Select Deuteronomy 11:15

16Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;Select Deuteronomy 11:16

17And 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 you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you. ¶Select Deuteronomy 11:17

18Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign on your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.Select Deuteronomy 11:18

19And you shall teach them your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.Select Deuteronomy 11:19

20And you shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates:Select Deuteronomy 11:20

21That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven on the earth. ¶Select Deuteronomy 11:21

22For 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 join to him;Select Deuteronomy 11:22

23Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.Select Deuteronomy 11:23

24Every place where on the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea shall your coast be.Select Deuteronomy 11:24

25There 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 on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has said to you. ¶Select Deuteronomy 11:25

26Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;Select Deuteronomy 11:26

27A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:Select Deuteronomy 11:27

28And a curse, if you 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 you have not known.Select Deuteronomy 11:28

29And it shall come to pass, when the LORD your God has brought you in to the land where you go to possess it, that you shall put the blessing on mount Gerizim, and the curse on mount Ebal.Select Deuteronomy 11:29

30Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goes down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the desert over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?Select Deuteronomy 11:30

31For you shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.Select Deuteronomy 11:31

32And you shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.Select Deuteronomy 11:32