Deuteronomy 11 · Parashot Eikev–Reeh

Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.

And know this day: for I speak not with your children who have not known, and have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched-out arm,

and his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Miżrayim to Par῾o the king of Miżrayim, and to all his land;

and what he did to the army of Miżrayim, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Sea of Suf overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord destroyed them unto this day;

and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;

and what he did to Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli᾽av, the son of Re᾽uven: how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the living substance that followed them, in the midst of all Yisra᾽el:

but your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did.

Therefore shall you keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, into which you go to possess it;

and that you may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

For the land, into which thou goest to possess it, is not as the land of Miżrayim, from whence you came out, where thou didst sow thy seed, and didst water it with thy foot, like a garden of vegetables:

but the land, into which you go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water of the rain of heaven:

a land which the Lord thy God cares for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

And it shall come to pass, if you hearken diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

that I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the early rain and the late rain, that thou mayst gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil.

And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayst eat and be full.

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

and then the Lord’s anger be inflamed against you, and he shut up the heavens, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord gives you.

And you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they will be as frontlets between your eyes.

And you shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou dost sit in thy house, and when thou dost walk by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thy house, and upon thy gates:

that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to hold fast to him;

then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness to the Levanon, from the river, the river Perat, to the uttermost sea shall be your border.

There shall no man be able to stand against you: for the Lord your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he has spoken to you.

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

a blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:

and a curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God has brought thee in to the land into which thou dost go to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizzim, and the curse upon mount ῾Eval.

Are they not on the other side of the Yarden, by the way where the sun goes down, in the land of the Kena῾ani, who dwell in the ῾Arava over against Gilgal, beside the terebinths of More?

For you shall pass over the Yarden to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell in it.

And you shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.