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Deuteronomy 11

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1 “You must love the LORD your God and always obey his requirements, decrees, regulations, and commands.

2 Keep in mind that I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of the LORD your God or seen his greatness and his strong hand and powerful arm.

3 They didn’t see the miraculous signs and wonders he performed in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his land.

4 They didn’t see what the LORD did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses and chariots—how he drowned them in the Red Sea as they were chasing you. He destroyed them, and they have not recovered to this very day!

5 “Your children didn’t see how the LORD cared for you in the wilderness until you arrived here.

6 They didn’t see what he did to Dathan and Abiram (the sons of Eliab, a descendant of Reuben) when the earth opened its mouth in the Israelite camp and swallowed them, along with their households and tents and every living thing that belonged to them.

7 But you have seen the LORD perform all these mighty deeds with your own eyes!

8 “Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today, so you may have strength to go in and take over the land you are about to enter.

9 If you obey, you will enjoy a long life in the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors and to you, their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey!

10 For the land you are about to enter and take over is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your seed and made irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden.

11 Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain—

12 a land that the LORD your God cares for. He watches over it through each season of the year!

13 “If you carefully obey the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the LORD your God and serve him with all your heart and soul,

14 then he will send the rains in their proper seasons—the early and late rains—so you can bring in your harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil.

15 He will give you lush pastureland for your livestock, and you yourselves will have all you want to eat.

16 “But be careful. Don’t let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the LORD and serve and worship other gods.

17 If you do, the LORD ’s anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the LORD is giving you.

18 “So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders.

19 Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.

20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

21 so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors.

22 “Be careful to obey all these commands I am giving you. Show love to the LORD your God by walking in his ways and holding tightly to him.

23 Then the LORD will drive out all the nations ahead of you, though they are much greater and stronger than you, and you will take over their land.

24 Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

25 No one will be able to stand against you, for the LORD your God will cause the people to fear and dread you, as he promised, wherever you go in the whole land.

26 “Look, today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse!

27 You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today.

28 But you will be cursed if you reject the commands of the LORD your God and turn away from him and worship gods you have not known before.

29 “When the LORD your God brings you into the land and helps you take possession of it, you must pronounce the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.

30 (These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley, near the town of Gilgal, not far from the oaks of Moreh.)

31 For you are about to cross the Jordan River to take over the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you take that land and are living in it,

32 you must be careful to obey all the decrees and regulations I am giving you today.

Common English Bible CEB

1 So love the LORD your God and follow his instruction, his regulations, his case laws, and his commandments always.

2 And know right now what your children haven't known or yet witnessed: The LORD your God's discipline, his power, his mighty hand and outstretched arm;

3 the signs and the acts that he performed in the heart of Egyptian territory, against Egypt's King Pharaoh and all his land;

4 what God did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots—how he made the water of the Reed Sea flow over their heads when they chased after you, but the LORD destroyed them, and that's how things stand right now;

5 what the Lord did for you in the desert, until you arrived at this place;

6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the descendants of Eliab the Reubenite, when the ground opened up its mouth and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and every living thing they possessed in the presence of all Israel.

7 Your own eyes witnessed each of these powerful acts the LORD performed.

8 So keep every part of the commandment that I am giving you today so that you stay strong to enter and take possession of the land that you are crossing over to possess,

9 and so that you might prolong your life on the fertile land that the LORD swore to your ancestors to give to them and their descendants—a land full of milk and honey.

10 The land you are about to enter and possess is definitely not like the land of Egypt, where you came from, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it by hand like a vegetable garden.

11 No, the land you are entering to possess is a land of hills and valleys, where your drinking water will be rain from heaven.

12 It's a land that the LORD cares for: the LORD's eyes are on it constantly from the first of the year until the very end of the year.

13 Now, if you completely obey God's commandments that I am giving you right now, by loving the LORD your God and by serving him with all your heart and all your being,

14 then he will provide rain for your land at the right time—early rain and late rain—so you can stock up your grain, wine, and oil.

15 He will also make your fields lush for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.

16 But watch yourselves! Otherwise, your heart might be led astray so you stray away, serving other gods and worshipping them.

17 Then the LORD's anger would burn against you. He will close the sky up tight. There won't be any rain, and the ground won't yield any of its crops. You will quickly disappear off the wonderful land the LORD is giving to you.

18 Place these words I'm speaking on your heart and in your very being. Tie them on your hand as a sign. They should be on your forehead as a symbol.

19 Teach them to your children, by talking about them when you are sitting around your house and when you are out and about, when you are lying down and when you are getting up.

20 Write them on your house's doorframes and on your city's gates.

21 Do all that so your days and your children's days on the fertile land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors are many—indeed, as many as the number of days that the sky's been over the earth!

22 It's true: if you carefully keep all this commandment that I'm giving you, by doing it, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in all his ways, and by clinging to him,

23 then the LORD will clear out all these nations before you. You will inherit what belonged to nations that are larger and stronger than you are.

24 Every place you set foot on will be yours: your territory will run from the wilderness all the way to the Lebanon range, and from the Euphrates River all the way to the Mediterranean Sea.

25 No one will be able to stand up to you. Just as he promised, the LORD your God will make the entire land deathly afraid of you wherever you advance in it.

26 Pay attention! I am setting blessing and curse before you right now:

27 the blessing if you obey the LORD your God's commandments that I am giving you right now,

28 but the curse if you don't obey the LORD your God's commandments and stray from the path that I am giving you today by following other gods that you have not known.

29 Now when the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of, put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. (

30 Aren't both of these mountains across the Jordan River, down along the western road in the region of the Canaanites who live in the desert plain, across from Gilgal, next to the Moreh Oak Grove?)

31 So then, once you cross the Jordan River to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you take possession of it, settling down in it,

32 you must carefully follow the regulations and the case laws that I am laying out before you right now.