“Therefore you shall ^alove the LORD your God, and always ^bkeep His charge, His statutes, His precepts, and His commandments it is your obligation to Him. 2 Know this day that ^aI am not speaking to your children who have not known by personal experience and who have not seen firsthand the instruction and discipline of the LORD your God—His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm; 3 and ^aHis signs and His works which He did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land; 4 and what He did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and its chariots, when ^aHe made the water of the ¹Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how the LORD ²completely destroyed them; 5 and what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place; 6 and ^awhat He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and ^bevery living thing that ¹followed them, in the midst of all Israel. Num 26:9, 10 7 For your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which He did.

8 “Therefore, you shall keep all the commandments which I am commanding you today, ^aso that you may be strong and go in and take possession of the land which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess; 9 ^aso that you may live long on the land which the LORD swore (solemnly promised) to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, ^ba land of great abundance, ¹flowing with milk and honey. 10 For the land which you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered ¹it with your foot like a garden of vegetables. 11 But ^athe land into which you are about to cross to possess, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven, 12 a land for which the LORD your God cares; ^athe eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

13 “It shall come about, ^aif you listen obediently and pay attention to My commandments which I command you today—^bto love the LORD your God and to serve Him ^cwith all your heart and with all your soul your choices, your thoughts, your whole being— 14 that ^1aHe will give the rain for your land in its season, the ^bearly fall rain and the late spring rain, so that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your olive oil. 15 And ^1aHe will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and ^byou will eat and be satisfied. 16 ^aBeware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away from the LORD and serve other gods and worship them, 17 or else the ^aLORD’S anger will be kindled and burn against you, and He will ^bshut up the heavens ^cso that there will be no rain and the land will not yield its fruit; and ^dyou will perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you.

18 “Therefore, ^ayou shall impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul, and tie them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as ¹bands (frontals, frontlets) on your forehead. 19 ^aYou shall teach them diligently to your ¹children impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. 20 ^aYou shall write them on the ¹doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 so that ^ayour days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as ^1blong as the heavens are above the earth. 22 For if you are ^acareful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, ^bto love the LORD your God, to walk that is, to live each and every day in all His ways and to ^chold tightly to Him— 23 then the LORD will ^adrive out all these nations from before you, and you shall ^bdispossess nations greater and mightier than you. 24 ^aEvery place on which the sole of your foot treads shall become yours; ^byour territory shall be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea (the Mediterranean) . 25 No man will ^abe able to stand before you; the LORD your God will lay the fear and the dread of you on all the land on which you set foot, just as He has spoken to you.

26 “Behold, today ^aI am setting before you a blessing and a curse— 27 the ^ablessing, if you listen to and obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am commanding you today; 28 and the ^acurse, if you do not listen to and obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by following (acknowledging, worshiping) other gods which you have not known.

29 “It shall come about, when the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to possess, ^athat you shall place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. Josh 8:30-35 30 Are they not across the Jordan, west of the road, toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite ^aGilgal, beside ^bthe oaks of Moreh? 31 For you are about to cross the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and ^ayou shall possess it and live in it, 32 and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.