Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 11

Deut 11:1 “And you shall love יהוה your Elohim and guard His Charge: even
His laws, and His right-rulings, and His commands, always.
Deut 11:2 “And you shall know today – for it is not your children who have
not known and who have not seen the discipline of יהוה your Elohim, His
greatness, His strong hand and His outstretched arm,
Deut 11:3 and His signs, and His works which He had done in the midst of
Mitsrayim, to Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and to all his land;
Deut 11:4 and that which He had done to the army of Mitsrayim, to their
horses and their chariots, when He made the waters of the Sea of Reeds
overflow them as they pursued you, and how יהוה has destroyed them to this
day;
Deut 11:5 and what He had done for you in the wilderness till you came to
this place;
Deut 11:6 and what He had done to Dathan and Aḇiram the sons of Eliyaḇ,
son of Re’uḇĕn, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up,
and their households, and their tents, and all the living creatures that were in
their possession, in the midst of all Yisra’ĕl.
Deut 11:7 “For yours are the eyes that saw all the great work of יהוה, which
He did.
Deut 11:8 “And you shall guard every command which I command you
today, so that you are strong, and shall go in, and shall possess the land
which you are passing over to possess,
Deut 11:9 and to prolong your days in the land which יהוה swore to give your
fathers, to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deut 11:10 “For the land which you are going in to possess is not like the
land of Mitsrayim from which you have come, where you sowed your seed
and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden,
Deut 11:11 but the land which you are passing over to possess is a land of
hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of the heavens,
Deut 11:12 a land which יהוה your Elohim looks after. The eyes of יהוה your
Elohim are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the latter end of the
year.
Deut 11:13 ‘And it shall be that if you diligently obey My commands which I
command you today, to love יהוה your Elohim and to serve Him with all your
heart and with all your being,
Deut 11:14 then I shall give you the rain for your land in its season, the early
rain and the latter rain, and you shall gather in your grain, and your new
wine, and your oil.
Deut 11:15 ‘And I shall give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you
shall eat and be satisfied.
Deut 11:16 ‘Guard yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn
aside and serve other mighty ones and bow down to them.
Deut 11:17 ‘Then the displeasure of יהוה shall burn against you, and He shall
shut up the heavens, and there be no rain, and the land not give its increase.
And you shall perish quickly from the good land which יהוה is giving you.
Deut 11:18 ‘And you shall lay up these Words of Mine in your heart and in
your being, and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as
frontlets between your eyes.
Deut 11:19 ‘And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them
when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie
down, and when you rise up,
Deut 11:20 and shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your
gates,
Deut 11:21 so that your days and the days of your children are increased on
the soil of which יהוה swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the
heavens on the earth.
Deut 11:22 ‘For if you diligently guard all these commands which I
command you, to do it, to love יהוה your Elohim, to walk in all His ways, and
to cling to Him,
Deut 11:23 then יהוה shall drive out all these nations before you, and you
shall dispossess greater and stronger nations than you.
Deut 11:24 ‘Every place on which the sole of your foot treads is yours: from
the wilderness, and Leḇanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the
Western Sea is your border.
Deut 11:25 ‘No man shall stand against you. יהוה your Elohim shall put the
dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, as He has
spoken to you.
Deut 11:26 ‘See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
Deut 11:27 the blessing, when you obey the commands of יהוה your Elohim
which I command you today;
Deut 11:28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commands of יהוה your
Elohim, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after
other mighty ones which you have not known.
Deut 11:29 ‘And it shall be, when יהוה your Elohim has brought you into the
land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount
Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ĕyḇal.
Deut 11:30 ‘Are they not beyond the Yardĕn, toward the setting sun, in the
land of the Kena‛anites who dwell in the desert plain opposite Gilgal, beside
the terebinth trees of Moreh?
Deut 11:31 ‘For you are passing over the Yardĕn to go in to possess the land
which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and you shall possess it and dwell in
it,
Deut 11:32 and shall guard to do all the laws and right-rulings which I am
setting before you today.’