Deuteronomy 11

And you shall love the Lord your God, and you shall keep his charges and his ordinances and his judgments all the days.

And you shall know today that it is not your children, who neither know nor have seen the discipline of the Lord your God, and his mighty deeds, and the mighty hand and the uplifted arm,

and his signs and his wonders, all that he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharao king of Egypt and to all his land,

and all that he did to the army of the Egyptians, their chariots and their cavalry, how the water of the Red Sea overwhelmed them upon their face as they were pursuing after you, and the Lord destroyed them, until this present day;

and all that he did for you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;

and all that he did to Dathan and Abiron, the sons of Eliab, the son of Rouben, whom the earth, opening its mouth, swallowed up — them and their households and their tents and all their substance that was with them — in the midst of all Israel.

For your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord, all that he did for you today.

And you shall keep all his commandments, as many as I command you today, that you may live and be multiplied, and having entered in, may inherit the land into which you are crossing the Jordan, there to inherit it;

that you may live long upon the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

For the land into which you are entering, there to inherit it, is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where they sow the seed and water it with their feet, like a garden of vegetables.

But the land into which you are entering, there to inherit it, is a land of mountains and plains; it drinks water from the rain of heaven.

a land which the Lord your God watches over; continually the eyes of the Lord your God are upon it, from the beginning of the year until the end of the year.

And if you indeed hearken to all his commandments, as many as I command you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve him with your whole heart and with your whole soul,

then he will give the rain to your land in its season, the early and the late, and you shall gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.

And he will give fodder in your fields for your cattle; and you shall eat and be filled.

Take heed to yourself, lest your heart be enlarged, and you transgress and serve other gods and bow down to them,

and the Lord, being angry with wrath against you, shut up the heaven, and there be no rain, and the earth not yield its fruit, and you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord gave you.

And you shall lay up these words in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and it shall be unshaken before your eyes.

And you shall teach them to your children, to speak of them when sitting in the house and when walking in the way and when lying down and when rising up.

And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your houses and of your gates,

that your days and the days of your children may be many upon the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

And it shall be, if you indeed hear all these commandments, as many as I command you today to do, to love the Lord our God and to walk in all his ways and to cleave to him,

then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before your face, and you shall dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

Every place upon which the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Antilibanos, and from the river, the great river Euphrates, even to the sea that is toward the west, shall be your borders.

No one shall stand against your face; the Lord your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the face of all the land upon which you set foot, just as the Lord spoke to you.

Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

the blessing, if you hear the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today;

and the curses, if you do not hear the commandments of the Lord your God, as many as I command you today, and you go astray from the way which I commanded you, going to serve other gods whom you do not know.

And it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land into which you are crossing, there to inherit it, then you shall set the blessing upon Mount Garizin and the curse upon Mount Gaibal.

Are not these beyond the Jordan, behind, along the way of the sunset, in the land of Chanaan, which lies toward the west, next to Golgol, near the high oak?

For you are crossing the Jordan, going in to inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance all the days; and you shall inherit it and dwell in it.

And you shall take care to do all his ordinances and these judgments, as many as I give before you today.