Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Yahweh Is King Over All the Earth

11 “And you shall love Yahweh your God, and you shall keep his obligations and his statutes and his regulations and his commandments always.^{[a] 2} And you shall realize today^[b] that it is not with your children who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of Yahweh your God—his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm, ³ and his signs and his deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all of his land, ⁴ and what he did to the army of Egypt and to their horses and to their chariots, and how he made the water of the Red Sea^[c] flow over them, when they pursued after them,^[d] and so Yahweh has destroyed them, as is the case today,^{[e] 5} and what he did to you in the desert until you came up to this place, ⁶ and what he did to Dathan and to Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth wide and swallowed them, their households and their tents, and all of the living creatures^[f] that were in their possession and that were following along with them^[g] in the midst of all of Israel. ⁷ The fact of the matter is, your own eyes have seen^[h] all of the great deeds^[i] of Yahweh that he did.

⁸ “And you must keep all of the commandments^[j] that I am commanding you today,^[k] so that you may have strength and you may go and you may take possession of that land to which you are crossing^[l] to take possession of it, ⁹ so that you may live long^[m] on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors,^[n] to give it to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ For the fact is that the land that you are about to go into^[o] to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come out of,^[p] where you sow your seed and you give water by your foot, as in a vegetable garden.^{[q] 11} But the land that you are about to cross into to take possession of it is a land of hills and valleys, and by the rain of the heaven it drinks water, ¹² a land that Yahweh your God is caring for it; continually the eyes of Yahweh your God are on it, from the beginning of the year up to the end of the year.

¹³ “And it will happen that if you listen carefully to my commandments that I am commanding you today,^[r] to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all of your heart and with all of your soul,^{[s] 14} then ‘I will send the rain for your land in its season, early rain and later rain, and you will gather your grain and your wine and your olive oil. ¹⁵ And I will give vegetation in your field for your livestock, and you will eat your fill.’^{[t] 16} Take care^[u] so that your heart is not easily deceived, and you turn away, and you serve other gods, and you bow down to them. ¹⁷ And then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you,^[v] and he will shut up the heavens,^[w] and there shall not be rain, and so the ground will not give its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land that Yahweh is giving to you.

¹³ I command you, in the sight of God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, ¹⁴ that you observe the commandment without fault, irreproachable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵ which he will make known in his own time, the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of those who reign as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords, ¹⁶ the one who alone possesses immortality, who lives in unapproachable light, whom no human being has seen nor is able to see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.