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Deuteronomy 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;
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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.
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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.
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