1. Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.
2. Know this day the things that your children know not, who saw not the chastisements of the Lord your God, his great doings and strong hand, and stretched out arm,
3. The signs and works which he did in the midst of Egypt to king Pharao, and to all his land,
4. And to all the host of the Egyptians, and to their horses and chariots: how the waters of the Red Sea covered them, when they pursued you, and how the Lord destroyed them until this present day:
5. And what he hath done to you in the wilderness, till you came to this place:
6. And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of Ruben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their households and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the midst of Israel.
7. Your eyes have seen all the greet works of the Lord, that he hath done,
8. That you may keep all his commandments, which I command you this day, and may go in, and possess the land, to which you are entering,
9. And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath to your fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and honey.
10. For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.
11. But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from heaven.
12. And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on it from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.
13. If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day, that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul:
14. He will give to your land the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil,