⁹ Only take heed to yourself, and diligently ^(A)keep yourself, lest you ^(B)forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And ^(C)teach them to your children and your grandchildren, ¹⁰ especially concerning ^(D)the day you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’

Love and Obedience Rewarded

11 “Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always. ² Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the ^[a]chastening of the Lord your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm— ³ His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land; ⁴ what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: ^(A)how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day; ⁵ what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place; ⁶ and ^(B)what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was ^[b]in their possession, in the midst of all Israel— ⁷ but your eyes have ^(C)seen every great ^[c]act of the Lord which He did.

⁸ “Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may ^(D)be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess,

¹⁸ “Therefore ^(A)you shall ^[a]lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your ^(B)soul, and ^(C)bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ^19 (D)You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ^20 (E)And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, ²¹ that ^(F)your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like ^(G)the days of the heavens above the earth.

²² “For if ^(H)you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and ^(I)to hold fast to Him— ²³ then the Lord will ^(J)drive out all these nations from before you, and you will ^(K)dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves. ^24 (L)Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: ^(M)from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the ^[b]Western Sea, shall be your territory. ²⁵ No man shall be able to ^(N)stand ^[c]against you; the Lord your God will put the ^(O)dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.

^26 (P)“Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: ^27 (Q)the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; ²⁸ and the ^(R)curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

²⁵ You shall not eat it, ^(A)that it may go well with you and your children after you, ^(B)when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord. ²⁶ Only the ^(C)holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the Lord chooses. ²⁷ And ^(D)you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, and you shall eat the meat. ²⁸ Observe and obey all these words which I command you, ^(E)that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.