1 "Love the LORD your God, and always keep what he requires of you: his statutes, his rules, and his commandments.
2 Recognize today that it was not your children who experienced the discipline of the LORD your God; they did not know or see it. It was you who saw his greatness, his strong hand and his outstretched arm,
3 his signs and the deeds he did in Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and against his whole land,
4 what he did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and its chariots, when he made the waters of the Red Sea flow over them as they were pursuing you, and the LORD destroyed them, as can be seen to this day;
5 what he did for you in the wilderness until you arrived at this place;
6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents, and every living thing that belonged to them.
7 For it was your own eyes that saw every great work the LORD has done.
8 "So keep the whole commandment I am giving you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land you are crossing over to possess,
9 and so that you may live long in the land the LORD swore to give to your fathers and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 For the land you are going in to possess is not like the land of Egypt you came from, where you would plant your seed and water it by foot, like a vegetable garden.
11 The land you are crossing over to possess is a land of hills and valleys that drinks water from the rain of heaven,
12 a land the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are on it continually, from the beginning of the year to its end.
13 "If you faithfully obey my commandments that I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and serving him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 I will send rain on your land in its season, the early rain and the late rain, and you will gather in your grain, your new wine, and your olive oil.
15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
16 Watch yourselves, so that your hearts are not deceived and you turn aside to serve other gods and bow down to them.
17 Then the LORD's anger would blaze against you, and he would shut up the sky so that there is no rain and the ground yields no produce, and you would soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you.
18 "So fix these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. Tie them as a sign on your hand, and let them be as a band between your eyes.
19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are sitting at home and when you are out on the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21 so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the LORD swore to give to your fathers, as many as the days the heavens are above the earth.
22 For if you are careful to keep this whole commandment I am giving you to carry out, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him,
23 then the LORD will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
24 Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon, and from the River, the Euphrates, to the western sea.
25 No one will be able to stand up to you. The LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you on all the land you set foot on, as he promised you.
26 "See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse:
27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today;
28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way I am commanding you today to follow other gods you have not known.
29 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are going in to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
30 Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, beyond the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, facing Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
31 For you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you have taken possession of it and are living in it,
32 be careful to carry out all the statutes and rules I am setting before you today.