1. Therefore, thou shalt love the Lord thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his rights and his commandments, always.
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 the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
3. 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,
4. 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 has destroyed them unto this day,
5. and what he did with you in the wilderness until ye came into this place,
6. 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;
7. but your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did.
8. Keep, therefore, all the commandments which I command you this day that ye may be strong and enter in and inherit the land, into which ye go to inherit it
9. and that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that flows with milk and honey.
10. For the land, into which thou goest to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, from which ye came out, where thou didst sow thy seed and water it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs.
11. The land, into which ye go to inherit it, is a land of mountains and valleys and drinks water of the rain of heaven,
12. a land which the Lord thy God procures; the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
13. 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
14. that I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the early rain and the latter rain, and thou shalt gather in thy grain and thy wine and thine oil.
15. And I will send grass in thy fields for thy beasts, and thou shalt eat and be full.