Deuteronomy 11

Revised Geneva Translation

11 “Therefore, you shall love the LORD your God and shall keep that which He Commands to be kept—His Ordinances and His Laws and His Commandments, always—

² “but not your children, who have neither known nor seen the chastisements of the LORD your God, His greatness, His mighty Hand, and His outstretched Arm,

³ “and His signs, and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land.

⁴ “Nor do they do know what He did to the army of the Egyptians, to their horses, and to their chariots, when He caused the waters of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you. And the LORD destroyed them to this day.

⁵ “Nor do they do know what He did for 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, when the Earth opened her mouth and swallowed them with their households and their tents and all their substance that they had, in the midst of all Israel.

⁷ “For your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which He did:

⁸ ‘Therefore, you shall keep all the Commandments which I command you this day, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land where you go to possess it,

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 seed, a land that flows with milk and honey.

¹⁰ ‘For the land where you go to possess is not as the land of Egypt from where you came, where you sowed your seed and watered with your feet, as a garden of herbs.

¹¹ ‘But the land where you go to possess, a land of mountains and valleys, drinks water from the rain of Heaven.

¹² ‘This land is cared for by the LORD your God. The eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

¹³ ‘If you shall obey, therefore, My Commandments which I command you this day — that you love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul —

¹⁴ ‘I will also give rain to your land in due time — the first rain to the last — so that you may gather in your wheat and your wine and your oil.

¹⁵ ‘I will also send grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may eat and have enough.’

¹⁶ “Beware, lest your heart deceives you, and lest you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,

¹⁷ “and the anger of the LORD is kindled against you, and He shuts up the heaven, so that there is no rain, and so that your land does not yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the good land which the LORD gives you.

¹⁸ ‘Therefore, you shall lay up these, My Words, in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, so that they may be as a frontlet between your eyes.

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

²⁰ ‘And you shall write them upon the posts of your house and upon your gates,

²¹ ‘so that 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 long as the heavens are above the Earth.’

²² “For if you keep diligently all these Commandments which I command you to do — to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cling to Him —

²³ “Then will the LORD cast out all these nations before you. And you shall possess greater and mightier nations than you.

²⁴ “All the places upon which the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours. Your coast shall be from the wilderness and from Lebanon and from the river (the river Perath) to the furthest sea.

²⁵ “No man shall stand against you. The LORD your God shall cast the fear and dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as He has said to you.

²⁶ “Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

²⁷ “the blessing if you obey the Commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day,

²⁸ “and the curse if you will not obey the Commandments of the LORD your God, but turn out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which you have not known.

²⁹ “Therefore, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land where you go, to possess it, then you shall put the blessing upon Mount Gerizim and the curse upon Mount Ebal.

³⁰ “Are they not beyond Jordan, on that part where the Sun goes down in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain, over against Gilgal, beside the grove of Moreh?

³¹ “For you shall pass over Jordan, to go in to possess that land which the LORD your God gives you. And you shall possess it and dwell in it.

³² “Be careful, therefore, to do all the Commandments and the Laws which I set before you this day.”