1. Love the Lord, your God, therefore, and keep his charge, statutes, ordinances, and commandments always.
2. Recall today that it was not your children, who have neither known nor seen the discipline of the Lord, your God—his greatness, his strong hand and outstretched arm;
3. the signs and deeds he wrought in the midst of Egypt, on Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and on all his land;
4. what he did to the Egyptian army and to their horses and chariots, engulfing them in the waters of the Red Sea as they pursued you, so that the Lord destroyed them even to this day;
5. what he did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place;
6. and what he did to the Reubenites Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up out of the midst of Israel, with their families and tents and every living thing that belonged to them—