Dual Panel1Love the LORD your God and keep for all time the charge he laid upon you, his statutes, laws, and commandments.
2This day you know the discipline of the LORD, though your children who have neither known nor experienced it do not; you know his great power, his strong hand and outstretched arm,
3the signs he worked and his deeds in Egypt against Pharaoh the king and his whole country,
4and what he did to the Egyptian army, its horses and chariots, when he caused the waters of the Red Sea to engulf them as they pursued you. In this way the LORD completely destroyed them, and so things remain to this day.
5You know what he did for you in the wilderness as you journeyed to this place,
6and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them in the midst of all Israel, together with their households, their tents, and every living thing in their company.
7It was you who saw for yourselves all the great work which the LORD did.
8Observe all the commands I give you this day, so that you may have the strength to enter and occupy the land into which you are about to cross,
9and so that you may enjoy long life in the land which the LORD swore to your forefathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10The land which you are about to enter and occupy is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where, after sowing your seed, you regulated the water by means of your foot as in a vegetable garden.
11But the land into which you are about to cross to occupy it is a land of mountains and valleys watered by the rain of heaven.
12It is a land which the LORD your God tends and on which his eye rests from one year's end to the next.
13If you pay heed to the commandments which I give you this day, to love the LORD your God and serve him with all your heart and soul,
14then I shall send rain for your land in season, both autumn and spring rains, and you will gather your corn and new wine and oil,
15and I shall provide pasture in the fields for your cattle: you will have all you want to eat.
16Take care not to be led astray in your hearts, and not to turn aside and serve and worship other gods,
17or the LORD's anger will be roused against you: he will shut up the heavens and there will be no rain, your soil will not yield its harvest, and you will quickly perish from upon the good land which the LORD is giving you.
18Take these commandments of mine to heart and keep them in mind. Bind them as a sign on your hands and wear them as a pendant on your foreheads.
19Teach them to your children, and speak of them indoors and out of doors, when you lie down and when you get up.
20Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
21Then you will live long, you and your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your forefathers to give them, for as long as the heavens are above the earth.
22If you diligently keep all these commandments that I now charge you to observe, loving the LORD your God, conforming to his ways, and holding fast to him,
23the LORD will drive out all these nations before you and you will occupy the territory of nations greater and more powerful than you are.
24Every place where you set foot will be yours. Your borders will run from the wilderness to the Lebanon, and from the river, the Euphrates, to the western sea.
25No one will be able to withstand you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you on the whole land on which you set foot, as he promised you.
26See, this day I offer you the choice of a blessing or a curse:
27the blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I give you this day;
28the curse if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn from the way that I command you this day and go after other gods of whom you have had no experience.
29When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to occupy, there on Mount Gerizim you shall pronounce the blessing and on Mount Ebal the curse.
30(These mountains are on the other side of the Jordan, close to Gilgal beside the terebinth of Moreh, beyond the road to the west which lies in the territory of the Canaanites of the Arabah.)
31You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and occupy the land which the LORD your God is giving you. Occupy it and settle in it,
32and be careful to observe all the statutes and laws which I have set before you this day.