Catholic Public Domain Version

Deuteronomy 11:6-13 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

6. and to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, who was the son of Reuben, those whom the earth, opening its mouth, engulfed with their households and tents, and with their entire substance which they had in the midst of Israel.

7. Your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord, which he has accomplished,

8. so that you would keep all his commandments, which I entrust to you this day, and so that you would be able to enter and possess the land, toward which you are advancing,

9. and so that you may live, for a long time, in the land which the Lord promised under oath to your fathers, and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10. For the land, which you shall enter and possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from which you departed, where, when seed has been sown, waters are brought in by irrigation, in the manner of gardens.

11. Rather, it has mountainous regions and plains, which lay waiting for rain from heaven.

12. And the Lord your God always visits it, and his eyes are upon it, from the beginning of the year, all the way to its end.

13. So then, if you obey my commandments, which I am instructing to you this day, so that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with your whole heart and your whole soul,