Deuteronomy 11

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 "You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments always.	1 Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.
2 And consider this day (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,	2 Know this day the things that your children know not, who saw not the chastisements of the Lord your God. his great doings and strong hand, and stretched out arm,
3 his signs and his deeds which he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land;	3 The signs and works which he did in the midst of Egypt to king Pharao, and to all his land,
4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;	4 And to all the host of the Egyptians, and to their horses and chariots: how the waters of the Red Sea covered them, when they pursued you, and how the Lord destroyed them until this present day:
5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;	5 And what he hath done to you in the wilderness, till you came to this place:
6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel;	6 And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the son of Ruben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with their households and tents, and all their substance, which they had in the midst of Israel.
7 for your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which he did.
8 "You shall therefore keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land which you are going over to possess,	8 Your eyes have seen all the greet works of the Lord, that he hath done,
9 and that you may live long in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.	9 That you may keep all his commandments, which I command you this day, and may go in, and possess the land, to which you are entering,
10 For the land which you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet, like a garden of vegetables;	10 And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath to your fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and honey.
11 but the land which you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven,	11 For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.
12 a land which the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.	12 But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from heaven.
13 "And if you will obey 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,	13 And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on it from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.
14 he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.	14 If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day, that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul:
15 And he will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you shall eat and be full.	15 He will give to your land the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil,
16 Take heed lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,	16 And your hay out of the fields to feed your cattle, and that you may eat and be filled.
17 and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there be no rain, and the land yield no fruit, and you perish quickly off the good land which the LORD gives you.	17 Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:
18 "You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.	18 And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not down, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the excellent land, which the Lord will give you.
19 And you shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.	19 Lay up these my words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.
20 And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates,	20 Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, end when thou liest down and risest up.
21 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.	21 Thou shalt write them upon the posts and the doors of thy house:
22 For if you will be careful to do all this commandment which I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and cleaving to him,	22 That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.
23 then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.	23 For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and do them, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto him,
24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your territory shall be from the wilderness and Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.	24 The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.
25 No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.	25 Every place, that your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours. From the desert, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto the western sea shall be your borders.
26 "Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:	26 None shall stand against you: the Lord your God shall lay the dread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he hath spoken to you.
27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day,	27 Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a curse:
28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which you have not known.	28 A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:
29 And when the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.	29 A curse, if you obey not the commandments of the Lord your. God, but revolt from the way which now I shew you, and walk after strange gods which you know not.
30 Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh?	30 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, whither thou goest to dwell, thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Garizim, the curse upon mount Hebal:
31 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land which the LORD your God gives you; and when you possess it and live in it,	31 Which are beyond the Jordan, behind the way that goeth to the setting of the sun, in the land of the Chanaanite who dwelleth in the plain country over against Galgala, which is near the valley that reacheth and entereth far.
32 you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.	32 For you shall pass over the Jordan, to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have it and possess it.