1“Therefore, you must always love the LORD your God, and obey His laws, statutes, ordinances, and His commandments. 2And bear mind that I am not addressing your children, who have not seen or known the discipline of the LORD your God - His majesty, His mighty hand, His outstretched arm, 3His miracles, and marvelous acts He did to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to all his land; 4And to the Egyptian army, their horses, and chariots; how He caused the water of the Red sea to engulf them as they pursued you, and brought lasting ruin upon them; 5Nor did your children see what He did for you in the wilderness, to bring you to this place; 6And what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and all their possessions. 7But your own eyes have witnessed all these great things that the LORD did.

8“So, therefore, you must obey all these commands that I give you today, so that you have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are about to cross the Jordan to possess; 9So that you may prolong your days in the land, that the LORD promised your fathers to give to them and their progeny, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10For this land that you are about to enter and possess, is not like the land of Egypt, that you came out of, where you planted your seed, and irrigated it on foot, like a vegetable garden: 11But this land is a land of hills and valleys, and it enjoys abundant rain water from heaven - 12A land which the LORD your God cares for; His eyes are always upon it, from the beginning of the year until the end of the year.

13“And if you listen diligently to my (Moses’) commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 He will give you the rain of your land in its due season - the spring and the fall rains, so that you may gather in your grain, wine, and oil. 15And He will provide grass in your fields for your cattle, that you may eat and be full. 16Take heed to yourselves, that your heart is not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve or worship other gods; 17For then the LORD's wrath will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heaven, so that there is no rain, and the land will not yield its fruit; and you will soon perish from off the good land which the LORD gives you.

18“Therefore you must keep these, My words, in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19And you must teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the way, when you lie down, and when you rise. 20And write them upon the door posts of your house, and upon your gates: 21That your days, and the days of your children, may be many, in the land which the LORD promised your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth. 22For if you diligently keep and do all these commandments which I command you, to love the LORD your God, walk in all His ways, and cling to Him; 23Then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall conquer nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 24Every place where the soles of your feet tread shall be yours: extending from the wilderness and Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea. 25No man shall be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall put the fear and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as He has told you.

26“Look, I am setting before you today a choice between a blessing and a curse: 27A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, as I command you today; 28And a curse, if you will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but stray from the way which I command you today, and follow other gods, which you have not known. 29And when the LORD your God has brought you into the land that you are about to possess, you shall put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30As you know, these mountains are on the other (western) side of the Jordan, by the road westward, in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the Arabah opposite Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh. 31For you shall cross the Jordan River to enter and possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall occupy and dwell in it. 32And you must be sure to observe and do all the statutes and decrees which I set before you this day.