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224 Book of Deuteronomy

multiplied thee as the stars of heaven. gardens.
11 But it is a land of hills and plains, expect-
ing rain from heaven.
Chapter 11
12 And the Lord thy God doth always visit it,
and his eyes are on it from the beginning of the
Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe
year unto the end thereof.
his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and
13 If then you obey my commandments, which
commmandments at all times.
I command you this day, that you love the Lord
2 Know this day the things that your chil-
your God, and serve him with all your heart, and
dren know not, who saw not the chastisements of
with all your soul:
the Lord your God, his great doings and strong
14 He will give to your land the early rain and
hand, and stretched out arm,
the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn,
3 The signs and works which he did in the
and your wine, and your oil,
midst of Egypt to king Pharao, and to all his
land, 15 And your hay out of the fields to feed your
cattle, and that you may eat and be filled.
4 And to all the host of the Egyptians, and
to their horses and chariots: how the waters of 16 Beware lest perhaps your heart be de-
the Red Sea covered them, when they pursued ceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve
you, and how the Lord destroyed them until this strange gods, and adore them:
present day: 17 And the Lord being angry shut up heaven,
5 And what he hath done to you in the wilder- that the rain come not down, nor the earth yield
ness, til you came to this place: her fruit, and you perish quickly from the excel-
6 And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of lent land, which the Lord will give you.
Eliab, who was the son of Ruben: whom the 18 Lay up these words in your hearts and
earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands,
their households and tents, and all their sub- and place them between your eyes.
stance, which they had in the midst of Israel. 19 Teach your children that they meditate on
7 Your eyes have seen all the great works of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when
the Lord, that he hath done, thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest
8 That you may keep all his commandments, down and risest up.
which I command you this day, and may go in, 20 Thou shalt write them upon the posts and
and possess the land, to which you are entering, the doors of thy house:
9 And may live in it a long time: which the 21 That thy days may be multiplied, and the
Lord promised by oath to your fathers, and to days of thy children in the land which the Lord
their seed, a land which floweth with milk and swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as
honey. long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.
10 For the land, which thou goest to possess, 22 For if you keep the commandments which
is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou I command you, and do them, to love the Lord
camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto
are brought in to water it after the manner of him,