Deuteronomy 11:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm;

Deuteronomy 11:3   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

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;

Deuteronomy 11:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord brought lasting ruin on them.

Deuteronomy 11:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the wilderness until you arrived at this place,

Deuteronomy 11:6   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened 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.

Deuteronomy 11:7   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

But it was your own eyes that saw all these great things the Lord has done.

Deuteronomy 11:8   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

Observe therefore all the commands 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,

Deuteronomy 11:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

and so that you may live long in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 11:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden.

Deuteronomy 11:13   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today-to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul-

Deuteronomy 11:14   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil.

Deuteronomy 11:15   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 11:17   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

Then the Lord's anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you.

Deuteronomy 11:18   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Deuteronomy 11:19   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 11:21   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.

Deuteronomy 11:23   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you.

Deuteronomy 11:24   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Deuteronomy 11:25   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

No one will be able to stand against you. The Lord your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.

Deuteronomy 11:26   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse-

Deuteronomy 11:30   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal.

Deuteronomy 11:32   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today.

Deuteronomy 12:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 12)

Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.

Deuteronomy 12:3   (Read all of Deuteronomy 12)

Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.