Deut 11
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Therefore you shall love YHWH your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and
his ordinances, and his commandments, alway.
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And know you this day: for [I speak] not with your children that have not known, and
that have not seen the chastisement of YHWH your God, his greatness, his mighty hand,
and his outstretched arm,
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and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king
of Egypt, and to all his land;
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and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how
he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how
YHWH has destroyed them to this day;
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and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;
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and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the
earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents,
and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
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but your eyes have seen all the great work of YHWH which he did.
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Therefore shall you keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you
may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;
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and that you may prolong your days in the land, which YHWH swore to your fathers to
give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence
you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden
of herbs;
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but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and]
drinks water of the rain of heaven,
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a land which YHWH your God cares for: the eyes of YHWH your God are always upon it,
from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
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And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently to my commandments which
I command you this day, to love YHWH your God, and to serve him with all your heart
and with all your soul,
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that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter
rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.
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And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you shall eat and be full.
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Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve
other gods, and worship them;
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and the anger of YHWH be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that
there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly
from off the good land which YHWH gives you.
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Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you
shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between
your eyes.
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And you shall teach them your children, talking 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.
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And you shall write them upon the door-posts of your house, and upon your gates;
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that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which
YHWH swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
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For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it,
to love YHWH your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him;
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then will YHWH drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess
nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
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Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness,
and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be
your border.
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There shall no man be able to stand before you: YHWH your God shall lay the fear of
you and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he has spoken
to you.
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Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
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the blessing, if you shall hearken to the commandments of YHWH your God, which I command
you this day;
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and the curse, if you shall not hearken to the commandments of YHWH your God, but
turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which
you have not known.
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And it shall come to pass, when YHWH your God shall bring you into the land where
you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the
curse upon mount Ebal.
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Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the
land of the Canaanites that dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks
of Moreh?
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For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which YHWH your God
gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.
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And you shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before
you this day.