1. “You must love the lord your God and always obey his requirements, decrees, regulations, and commands.
2. Keep in mind that I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of the lord your God or seen his greatness and his strong hand and powerful arm.
3. They didn’t see the miraculous signs and wonders he performed in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his land.
4. They didn’t see what the lord did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses and chariots—how he drowned them in the Red Sea as they were chasing you. He destroyed them, and they have not recovered to this very day!
5. “Your children didn’t see how the lord cared for you in the wilderness until you arrived here.
6. They didn’t see what he did to Dathan and Abiram (the sons of Eliab, a descendant of Reuben) when the earth opened its mouth in the Israelite camp and swallowed them, along with their households and tents and every living thing that belonged to them.
7. But you have seen the lord perform all these mighty deeds with your own eyes!
8. “Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today, so you may have strength to go in and take over the land you are about to enter.