Deuteronomy 10:14-11:7

New International Version

¹⁴ To the Lord your God belong the heavens,^(A) even the highest heavens,^(B) the earth and everything in it.^{(C) 15} Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved^(D) them, and he chose you,^(E) their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today.^{(F) 16} Circumcise^(G) your hearts,^(H) therefore, and do not be stiff-necked^(I) any longer. ¹⁷ For the Lord your God is God of gods^(J) and Lord of lords,^(K) the great God, mighty and awesome,^(L) who shows no partiality^(M) and accepts no bribes.^{(N) 18} He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow,^(O) and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.^{(P) 19} And you are to love^(Q) those who are foreigners,^(R) for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.^{(S) 20} Fear the Lord your God and serve him.^(T) Hold fast^(U) to him and take your oaths in his name.^{(V) 21} He is the one you praise;^(W) he is your God, who performed for you those great^(X) and awesome wonders^(Y) you saw with your own eyes. ²² Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all,^(Z) and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.^(AA)

Love and Obey the Lord

11 Love^(AB) the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.^{(AC) 2} Remember today that your children^(AD) were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God:^(AE) his majesty,^(AF) his mighty hand, his outstretched arm;^{(AG) 3} the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his whole country;^{(AH) 4} what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots,^(AI) how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea^[a](AJ) as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord brought lasting ruin on them. ⁵ It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the wilderness until you arrived at this place, ⁶ and what he did^(AK) to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened^(AL) its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them. ⁷ But it was your own eyes that saw all these great things the Lord has done.^(AM)