1 ama itaque Dominum Deum tuum
et observa praecepta eius et caerimonias
iudicia atque mandata omni tempore
2 cognoscite hodie quae ignorant filii vestri
qui non viderunt disciplinam Domini Dei vestri
magnalia eius et robustam manum extentumque brachium
3 signa et opera quae fecit in medio Aegypti
Pharaoni regi et universae terrae eius
4 omnique exercitui Aegyptiorum et equis ac curribus
quomodo operuerint eos aquae Rubri maris
cum vos persequerentur
et deleverit eos Dominus usque in praesentem diem
5 vobisque quae fecerit in solitudine
donec veniretis ad hunc locum
6 et Dathan atque Abiram filiis Heliab qui fuit filius Ruben
quos aperto ore suo terra absorbuit
cum domibus et tabernaculis et universa substantia eorum quam habebant
in medio Israhelis
7 oculi vestri viderunt omnia opera Domini magna quae fecit
8 ut custodiatis universa mandata illius
quae ego hodie praecipio vobis
et possitis introire et possidere terram ad quam ingredimini
9 multoque in ea vivatis tempore
quam sub iuramento pollicitus est Dominus patribus vestris et semini
eorum
lacte et melle manantem
10 terra enim ad quam ingredieris possidendam
non est sicut terra Aegypti de qua existi
ubi iacto semine in hortorum morem aquae ducuntur inriguae
11 sed montuosa est et campestris de caelo expectans pluvias
12 quam Dominus Deus tuus semper invisit
et oculi illius in ea sunt a principio anni usque ad finem eius
13 si ergo oboedieritis mandatis meis
quae hodie praecipio vobis
ut diligatis Dominum Deum vestrum et serviatis ei
in toto corde vestro et in tota anima vestra
14 dabo pluviam terrae vestrae temporivam et serotinam
ut colligatis frumentum et vinum et oleum
15 faenum ex agris ad pascenda iumenta
et ut ipsi comedatis ac saturemini
16 cavete ne forte decipiatur cor vestrum et recedatis a Domino
serviatisque diis alienis et adoretis eos
17 iratusque Dominus claudat caelum
et pluviae non descendant nec terra det germen suum
pereatisque velociter de terra optima quam Dominus daturus est vobis
18 ponite haec verba mea in cordibus et in animis vestris
et suspendite ea pro signo in manibus
et inter vestros oculos conlocate
19 docete filios vestros ut illa meditentur
quando sederis in domo tua et ambulaveris in via
et accubueris atque surrexeris
20 scribes ea super postes et ianuas domus tuae
21 ut multiplicentur dies tui et filiorum tuorum
in terra quam iuravit Dominus patribus tuis ut daret eis
quamdiu caelum inminet terrae
22 si enim custodieritis mandata quae ego praecipio vobis et feceritis ea
ut diligatis Dominum Deum vestrum
et ambuletis in omnibus viis eius adherentes ei
23 disperdet Dominus omnes gentes istas ante faciem vestram
et possidebitis eas quae maiores et fortiores vobis sunt
24 omnis locus quem calcaverit pes vester vester erit
a deserto et Libano a flumine magno Eufraten
usque ad mare occidentale erunt termini vestri
25 nullus stabit contra vos
terrorem vestrum et formidinem dabit Dominus Deus vester
super omnem terram quam calcaturi estis
sicut locutus est vobis
26 en propono in conspectu vestro hodie
benedictionem et maledictionem
27 benedictionem si oboedieritis mandatis Domini Dei vestri
quae ego praecipio vobis
28 maledictionem si non audieritis mandata Domini
Dei vestri
sed recesseritis de via quam ego nunc ostendo vobis
et ambulaveritis post deos alienos quos ignoratis
29 cum introduxerit te Dominus Deus tuus
in terram ad quam pergis habitandam
pones benedictionem super montem Garizim
maledictionem super montem Hebal
30 qui sunt trans Iordanem post viam quae vergit ad solis occubitum
in terra Chananei qui habitat in campestribus
contra Galgalam quae est iuxta vallem tendentem et intrantem procul
31 vos enim transibitis Iordanem
ut possideatis terram quam Dominus Deus vester daturus est vobis
et habeatis ac possideatis illam
32 videte ergo ut impleatis caerimonias atque iudicia
quae ego hodie ponam in conspectu vestro
1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. 2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, 3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; 4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day; 5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; 6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
10 ¶ For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
13 ¶ And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto 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, 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
18 ¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
22 ¶ For if ye 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 cleave unto him; 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
26 ¶ Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: 28 And a curse, if ye will 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 ye have not known. 29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.