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Chapter 11 |
| 1 | Therefore thou
shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his
judgments, and his commandments, alway. |
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2 | And know ye this day: for I
speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the
chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his
stretched out arm, |
| 3 | And his miracles, and his acts, which he did
in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his
land; |
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And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto 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 the LORD hath destroyed them unto this
day; |
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And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into
this place; |
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| And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them
up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in
their possession, in the midst of all Israel: |
| 7 | But your eyes
have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did. |
| 8 | Therefore
shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be
strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; |
| 9 |
And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your
fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and
honey. |
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| For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not
as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and
wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: |
| 11 | But the
land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh
water of the rain of heaven: |
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12 | A land which the LORD thy God careth
for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the
year even unto the end of the year. |
| 13 | And it shall come to pass, if
ye shall hearken diligently unto my 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
| That I will give you the rain of your land in his due
season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy
corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. |
| 15 | And I will send grass in thy
fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. |
| 16 | Take
heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and
serve other gods, and worship them; |
| 17 | And then the LORD's wrath be
kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that
the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land
which the LORD giveth you. |
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18 | Therefore shall ye lay up 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. |
| 19 | And ye shall
teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest
up. |
| 20 |
And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house,
and upon thy gates: |
| 21 | That your days may be multiplied, and the
days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to
give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. |
| 22 | For if ye
shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them,
to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto
him; |
| 23 |
Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before
you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
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| 24 | Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours:
from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto
the uttermost sea shall your coast be. |
| 25 | There shall no man be able to
stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread
of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto
you. |
| 26 |
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a
curse; |
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| A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your
God, which I command you this day: |
| 28 | And a curse, if ye will not
obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which
I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
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| 29 | And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in
unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the
blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. |
| 30 | Are they
not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land
of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the
plains of Moreh? |
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31 | For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess
the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell
therein. |
| 32
| And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments
which I set before you this day. |
