2. And know ye this day...; for I speak not with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God his greatness, his powerful hand, and his stretched-out arm,
3. and his signs and his acts which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
4. and what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and unto their chariots, over which he made the water of the Red sea flow as they pursued after you, and Jehovah destroyed them unto this day;
5. --and what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came to this place;
6. and what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, --how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, with their households, and their tents, and all the living substance that belonged to them, in the midst of all Israel.
7. For your eyes have seen all the great work of Jehovah which he hath done.
8. Keep then all the commandment which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and enter in and possess the land, whither ye pass over to possess it;
9. and that ye may prolong your days in the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers to give unto them and unto their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10. For the land, whither thou enterest 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, whereunto ye are passing over to possess it, is a land of mountains and valleys, which drinketh water of the rain of heaven,
12. a land which Jehovah thy God careth for; the eyes of Jehovah thy God are constantly upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
13. And it shall come to pass, if ye hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14. that I will give rain to your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain; and thou shalt gather in thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil;
15. and I will give grass in thy field for thy cattle; and thou shalt eat and be full.
16. Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside and serve other gods, and bow down to them,
17. and Jehovah's wrath kindle against you, and he shut up the heavens, that there be no rain, and that the ground yield not its produce, and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving you.
18. And ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
19. And ye shall teach them unto your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up;
20. and write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates;