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1 Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.
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You shall love the Lord your God, therefore, and keep his charge, his decrees, his ordinances, and his commandments always.
2 Know this day the things that your children know not, who saw not the chastisements of the Lord your God, his great doings and strong hand, and stretched out arm,
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Remember today that it was not your children (who have not known or seen the discipline of the Lord your God), but it is you who must acknowledge his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,
3 The signs and works which he did in the midst of Egypt to king Pharao, and to all his land,
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his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
4 And to all the host of the Egyptians, and to their horses and chariots: how the waters of the Red Sea covered them, when they pursued you, and how the Lord destroyed them until this present day:
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what he did to the Egyptian army, to their horses and chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued you, so that the Lord has destroyed them to this day;
5 And what he hath done to you in the wilderness, till you came to this place:
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what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;
6 And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of Ruben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their households and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the midst of Israel.
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and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, how in the midst of all Israel the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households, their tents, and every living being in their company;
7 Your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord, that he hath done,
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for it is your own eyes that have seen every great deed that the Lord did.
8 That you may keep all his commandments, which I command you this day, and may go in, and possess the land, to which you are entering,
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Keep, then, this entire commandment that I am commanding you today, so that you may have strength to go in and occupy the land that you are crossing over to occupy,
9 And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath to your fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and honey.
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and so that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.
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For the land that you are about to enter to occupy is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sow your seed and irrigate by foot like a vegetable garden.
11 But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from heaven.
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But the land that you are crossing over to occupy is a land of hills and valleys, watered by rain from the sky,
12 And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on it from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.
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a land that the Lord your God looks after. The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
13 If then you obey 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:
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If you will only heed his every commandment that I am commanding you today—loving the Lord your God, and serving him with all your heart and with all your soul—
14 He will give to your land the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil,
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then he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil;
15 And your hay out of the fields to feed your cattle, and that you may eat and be filled.
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and he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you will eat your fill.
16 Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:
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Take care, or you will be seduced into turning away, serving other gods and worshiping them,
17 And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not down, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the excellent land, which the Lord will give you.
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for then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain and the land will yield no fruit; then you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
18 Lay up these words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.
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You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and fix them as an emblem on your forehead.
19 Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down and risest up.
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Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.
20 Thou shalt write them upon the posts and the doors of thy house:
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Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21 That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.
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so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
22 For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and do them, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto him,
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If you will diligently observe this entire commandment that I am commanding you, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him,
23 The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.
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then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and mightier than yourselves.
24 Every place, that your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours. From the desert, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto the western sea shall be your borders.
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Every place on which you set foot shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the Western Sea.
25 None shall stand against you: the Lord your God shall lay the dread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he hath spoken to you.
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No one will be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will put the fear and dread of you on all the land on which you set foot, as he promised you.
26 Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a curse:
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See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
27 A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:
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the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today;
28 A curse, if you obey not the commandments of the Lord your God, but revolt from the way which now I shew you, and walk after strange gods which you know not.
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and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn from the way that I am commanding you today, to follow other gods that you have not known.
29 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, whither thou goest to dwell, thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Garizim, the curse upon mount Hebal:
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When the Lord your God has brought you into the land that you are entering to occupy, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
30 Which are beyond the Jordan, behind the way that goeth to the setting of the sun, in the land of the Chanaanite who dwelleth in the plain country over against Galgala, which is near the valley that reacheth and entereth far.
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As you know, they are beyond the Jordan, some distance to the west, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh.
31 For you shall pass over the Jordan, to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have it and possess it.
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When you cross the Jordan to go in to occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and when you occupy it and live in it,
32 See therefore that you fulfil the ceremonies and judgments, which I shall set this day before you.
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you must diligently observe all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.
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