New King James Version

New Living Translation

1“Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.

1“You must love the LORD your God and always obey his requirements, decrees, regulations, and commands.

2Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the LORD your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm—

2Keep in mind that I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of the LORD your God or seen his greatness and his strong hand and powerful arm.

3His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;

3They didn’t see the miraculous signs and wonders he performed in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his land.

4what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;

4They didn’t see what the LORD did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses and chariots—how he drowned them in the Red Sea as they were chasing you. He destroyed them, and they have not recovered to this very day!

5what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place;

5“Your children didn’t see how the LORD cared for you in the wilderness until you arrived here.

6and what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel—

6They didn’t see what he did to Dathan and Abiram (the sons of Eliab, a descendant of Reuben) when the earth opened its mouth in the Israelite camp and swallowed them, along with their households and tents and every living thing that belonged to them.

7but your eyes have seen every great act of the LORD which He did.

7But you have seen the LORD perform all these mighty deeds with your own eyes! The Blessings of Obedience

8“Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess,

8“Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today, so you may have strength to go in and take over the land you are about to enter.

9and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’

9If you obey, you will enjoy a long life in the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors and to you, their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey!

10For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden;

10For the land you are about to enter and take over is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your seed and made irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden.

11but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven,

11Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain—

12a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.

12a land that the LORD your God cares for. He watches over it through each season of the year!

13‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

13“If you carefully obey the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the LORD your God and serve him with all your heart and soul,

14then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

14then he will send the rains in their proper seasons—the early and late rains—so you can bring in your harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil.

15And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.’

15He will give you lush pastureland for your livestock, and you yourselves will have all you want to eat.

16Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,

16“But be careful. Don’t let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the LORD and serve and worship other gods.

17lest the LORD’s anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you.

17If you do, the LORD’s anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the LORD is giving you.

18“Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

18“So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders.

19You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

19Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.

20And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

20Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

21that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.

21so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors.

22“For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

22“Be careful to obey all these commands I am giving you. Show love to the LORD your God by walking in his ways and holding tightly to him.

23then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.

23Then the LORD will drive out all the nations ahead of you, though they are much greater and stronger than you, and you will take over their land.

24Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.

24Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

25No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.

25No one will be able to stand against you, for the LORD your God will cause the people to fear and dread you, as he promised, wherever you go in the whole land.

26“Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

26“Look, today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse!

27the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today;

27You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today.

28and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

28But you will be cursed if you reject the commands of the LORD your God and turn away from him and worship gods you have not known before.

29Now it shall be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

29“When the LORD your God brings you into the land and helps you take possession of it, you must pronounce the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.

30Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?

30(These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley, near the town of Gilgal, not far from the oaks of Moreh.)

31For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it.

31For you are about to cross the Jordan River to take over the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you take that land and are living in it,

32And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.

32you must be careful to obey all the decrees and regulations I am giving you today.

The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.