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Chapter 11 |
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Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his
statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. |
| 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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4 | 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; |
| 5 | And what he did unto you in the
wilderness, until ye came into this place; |
| 6 | 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. |
| 10 | 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: |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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: |
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| 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. |
| 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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27 | 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? |
| 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. |
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| And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set
before you this day. |
