| New American Standard Bible 1995 | Berean Study Bible |
| 1"You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. | 1You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. |
| 2"Know this day that I am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the LORD your God-- His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm, | 2Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm; |
| 3and His signs and His works which He did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land; | 3the signs and works He did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land; |
| 4and what He did to Egypt's army, to its horses and its chariots, when He made the water of the Red Sea to engulf them while they were pursuing you, and the LORD completely destroyed them; | 4what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day; |
| 5and what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place; | 5what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place; |
| 6and what 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 every living thing that followed them, among all Israel-- | 6and what He did in the midst of all the Israelites to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that belonged to them. |
| 7but your own eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which He did. | 7For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done. |
| 8"You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it; | 8You shall therefore keep every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, |
| 9so that you may prolong your days on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. | 9and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. |
| 10"For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your foot like a vegetable garden. | 10For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden. |
| 11"But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven, | 11But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven. |
| 12a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year. | 12It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year. |
| 13"It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul, | 13So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, |
| 14that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil. | 14then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil. |
| 15"He will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied. | 15And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied. |
| 16"Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them. | 16But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods, |
| 17"Or 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 ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you. | 17or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you. |
| 18"You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. | 18Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. |
| 19"You shall teach them to your sons, talking 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. | 19Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. |
| 20"You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, | 20Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates, |
| 21so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth. | 21so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers. |
| 22"For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him, | 22For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him— |
| 23then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. | 23then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you. |
| 24"Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea. | 24Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea. |
| 25"No man will be able to stand before you; the LORD your God will lay the dread of you and the fear of you on all the land on which you set foot, as He has spoken to you. | 25No man will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you. |
| 26"See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: | 26See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse— |
| 27the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am commanding you today; | 27a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today, |
| 28and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by following other gods which you have not known. | 28but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known. |
| 29"It shall come about, when the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, that you shall place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. | 29When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. |
| 30"Are they not across the Jordan, west of the way toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? | 30Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak 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 you shall possess it and live in it, | 31For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it, |
| 32and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today. | 32be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today. |
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