Obedience and Discipline
And you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, all the days.
And know today — for it is not your sons, who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the LORD your God — his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm,
and his signs and his deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to all his land,
and what he did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and to its chariots — how he made the waters of the Sea of Reeds flood over their faces as they pursued after you, and the LORD destroyed them, to this day;
and what he did for you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;
and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben — how the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them, with their households and their tents and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel.
For it is your own eyes that have seen every great deed of the LORD that he did.
God’s Great Blessings
So you shall keep all the commandment that I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land into which you are crossing to possess it,
and so that you may lengthen your days on the ground that the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed — a land flowing with milk and honey.
For the land into which you are going, to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a garden of greens.
But the land into which you are crossing, to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys; by the rain of the heavens it drinks water —
a land that the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
And it shall be, if you surely listen to my commandments that I am commanding you today — to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul —
that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the early rain and the late rain; and you shall gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your fresh oil.
And I will give grass in your field for your beasts; and you shall eat and be satisfied.
Take care for yourselves, so that your heart is not deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and bow down to them,
and the anger of the LORD burns against you, and he shuts up the heavens so that there is no rain, and the ground does not give her yield, and you perish quickly from off the good land that the LORD is giving you.
Remember God’s Words
So you shall set these my words on your heart and on your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
And you shall teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates —
so that your days and the days of your sons may be many on the ground that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens over the earth.
For if you surely keep all this commandment that I am commanding you to do — to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to hold fast to him —
then the LORD will dispossess all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.
Every place where the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea shall your border be.
No man will stand before you. The dread of you and the fear of you the LORD your God will put on the face of all the land where you tread, as he has spoken to you.
A Blessing and a Curse
See — I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
the blessing, when you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you today;
and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.
And it shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land into which you are going, to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Are they not across the Jordan, beyond the way of the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanite who lives in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
For you are crossing the Jordan, to go in and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you; and you shall possess it and live in it.
And you shall keep to do all the statutes and the judgments that I am setting before you today.