Deuteronomy 10:14-11:21

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)

⁸ Observe therefore all the commands^(AN) I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,^{(AO) 9} and so that you may live long^(AP) in the land the Lord swore^(AQ) to your ancestors to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.^{(AR) 10} The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt,^(AS) from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. ¹¹ But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys^(AT) that drinks rain from heaven.^{(AU) 12} It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes^(AV) of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.

¹³ So if you faithfully obey^(AW) the commands I am giving you today—to love^(AX) the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul^(AY)— ¹⁴ then I will send rain^(AZ) on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains,^(BA) so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. ¹⁵ I will provide grass^(BB) in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.^(BC)

¹⁶ Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.^{(BD) 17} Then the Lord’s anger^(BE) will burn against you, and he will shut up^(BF) the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce,^(BG) and you will soon perish^(BH) from the good land the Lord is giving you. ¹⁸ Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.^{(BI) 19} Teach them to your children,^(BJ) talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.^{(BK) 20} Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,^{(BL) 21} so that your days and the days of your children may be many^(BM) in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.^(BN)