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 11:11   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven.

Deuteronomy 11:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.

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 11:16   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.

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 11:20   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,

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 11:22   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow-to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him-

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 11:27   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today;

Deuteronomy 11:28   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

Deuteronomy 11:29   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

When the Lord your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim the blessings, and on Mount Ebal the curses.

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 11:31   (Read all of Deuteronomy 11)

You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you have taken it over and are living there,