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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. |
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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, |
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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: |
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But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD
which he did. |
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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
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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
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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: |
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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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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. |
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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, |
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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. |
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And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that
thou mayest eat and be full. |
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Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived,
and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; |
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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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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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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. |
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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. |
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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; |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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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: |
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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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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. |
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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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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. |
