English Standard Version

Deuteronomy 11:5-11 English Standard Version (ESV)

5. and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place,

6. and what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel.

7. For your eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord that he did.

8. “You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess,

9. and that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10. For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables.

11. But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven,