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          DASV: Deuteronomy 11    

1 Love the LORD your God, and always obey his requirements,
statutes, regulations and commands.
2 Consider today that I am not talking to your children who have
not experienced or seen the discipline of the LORD your God,
his greatness, his mighty hand and outstretched arm,
3 his signs, and his deeds, that he did in the midst of Egypt
to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land,
4 and what he did to the Egyptian army, to their horses and chariots,
how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they
pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day.
5 Your children did not see what he did for you in the wilderness,
until you came to this place;
6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab,
the son of Reuben; how in the midst of all Israel the earth
opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, along with their
households, tents and every living thing that followed them.
7 But your own eyes have seen all the great deeds the LORD did.

8 Therefore obey all the commands I am giving you today,
so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land,
you are crossing over to possess,
9 and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD
promised to give to your forefathers and to their descendants,
a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 For the land you are entering to possess is not like the
land of Egypt, from which you came, where you sowed your seed
and irrigated it with your foot like a vegetable garden.
11 But the land, you are crossing over to possess, is a land
of hills and valleys, that drinks rain from heaven,
12 a land the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD
your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of
the year.

13 If you will carefully obey my commandments that I command
you today, to love the LORD your God and serve him with all
your heart and with all your soul,
14 then he promises, 'I will give rain on your land in its season,
the autumn former rains and the spring latter rains,
that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil.
15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock,
and you will eat and be full.'
16 Be careful or your heart may be deceived turning aside and
serving other gods, and worshiping them.
17 Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and he will
shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain,
and the land will not produce its fruit; and you will
quickly perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.

18 Therefore retain these words of mine in your heart and soul.
Tie them for a sign on your hand, and bind them as a reminder
on your forehead.
19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit
in your house and when you walk by the way, when you lie down
and when you get up.
20 Write them on the door-posts of your house and on your gates,
21 that the days of you and your children may be multiplied,
in the land that the LORD promised to give to your forefathers,
as long as the heavens are above the earth.

22 For if you carefully obey all these commands that I am
commanding you, to love the LORD your God, by walking in all
his ways, and loyally holding onto him;
23 then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you,
and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you are.
24 Everywhere you set the sole of your foot will be yours;
your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon,
from the River, the Euphrates River, all the way to the west,
the Mediterranean Sea.
25 No one will be able to stand against you. The LORD your God
will put the fear and the dread of you on all the land that
you tread on, just as he has promised you.

26 Look, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
27 the blessing, if you obey the commands of the LORD your God,
that I am commanding you today;
28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commands of the LORD your
God, but turn from the way that I am commanding you today,
by pursuing other gods, that you have not known.

29 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are
entering to take possession of it, you must set the blessing
on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
30 Are not these two mountains beyond the Jordan River, in the west
by the way of the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites
who dwell in the Arabah, near Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh?
31 For you are about to pass over the Jordan River to go in to
possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
When you take possession of it and live there
32 be sure to carefully obey all the statutes and regulations
that I am setting before you today.

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