Deuteronomy 11:13-32

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¹³ So if you faithfully obey^(A) the commands I am giving you today—to love^(B) the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul^(C)— ¹⁴ then I will send rain^(D) on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains,^(E) so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. ¹⁵ I will provide grass^(F) in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.^(G)

¹⁶ Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.^{(H) 17} Then the Lord’s anger^(I) will burn against you, and he will shut up^(J) the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce,^(K) and you will soon perish^(L) from the good land the Lord is giving you. ¹⁸ Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.^{(M) 19} Teach them to your children,^(N) talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.^{(O) 20} Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,^{(P) 21} so that your days and the days of your children may be many^(Q) in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.^(R)

²² If you carefully observe^(S) all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love^(T) the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast^(U) to him— ²³ then the Lord will drive out^(V) all these nations^(W) before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you.^{(X) 24} Every place where you set your foot will be yours:^(Y) Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River^(Z) to the Mediterranean Sea. ²⁵ No one will be able to stand against you. The Lord your God, as he promised you, will put the terror^(AA) and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.^(AB)

²⁶ See, I am setting before you today a blessing^(AC) and a curse^(AD)— ²⁷ the blessing^(AE) if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; ²⁸ the curse if you disobey^(AF) the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods,^(AG) which you have not known. ²⁹ When the Lord your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim^(AH) the blessings, and on Mount Ebal^(AI) the curses.^{(AJ) 30} As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh,^(AK) in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal.^{(AL) 31} You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession^(AM) of the land the Lord your God is giving^(AN) you. When you have taken it over and are living there, ³² be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today.