1   Love therfore the Lord thy God, and obserue his preceptes and ceremonies, his iudgementes and commandmentes at al time.

2   Know this day the thinges that your children know not, who saw not the discipline of the Lord your God, his great doinges and strong hand, and stretched out arme,

3   the signes and workes which he did in the middes of Ægypt to Pharao the king, and to al his land,

4   and to al the hoste of the Ægyptians, and to their horses and charriottes: how the waters of the red sea couered them, when they pursewed you, and how our Lord destroyed them vntil this present day:

5   and to you what thinges he hath done in the wildernes, til you came to this place:

6   and to Dathan and Abiron the sonnes of Eliab, which was the sonne of Ruben: whom the earth opening her mouth swalowed vp with their houses and tabernacles, and al their substance, which they had in the middes of Israel.

7   Your eies haue seene al the great workes of our Lord, that he hath done,

8   that you may keepe al his commandementes, which I command you this day, and may enter in, and possesse the Land, to the which you enter,

9   and may liue in it a great time: which our Lord by oath promised to your fathers, and to their seede, flowing with milke and honie.

10   For the Land, which thou goest to possesse, is not as the Land of Ægypt, which thou camest out of, where when the seede is sowen, waters are brought in to water it after the maner of gardens.

11   but it is hilly and champion, expecting raine from heauen.

12   which the Lord thy God doth alwaies visite, and his eies are on it from the beginning of the yeare vnto the end therof.

13   If then you obey my commandementes, which I command you this day, that you loue the Lord your God, and serue him

Precepts and Iudgements. with al your hart, and with al your soule:

14   he wil geue rayne to your Land ^note the timely and the lateward, that you may gather your corne, and wine, and oile,

15   and haye out of the fieldes to feede your cattel, and that yourselues may eate and be filled.

16   Beware lest perhaps your hart be deceiued, and you depart from our Lord, and serue strange goddes, and adore them:

17   and our Lord being wrath shutte vp heauen, and the raine come not downe, nor the earth geue her spring, and you perish quickly from the excellent Land, which our Lord wil geue you

18   Put these my wordes in your hartes and mindes, and hang them for a signe on your handes, and place them betwen your eies.

19   Teach your children that they meditate them, when thou sittest in thy house, & walkest on the way, and liest downe and rysest vp.

20   Thou shalt write them vpon the postes and gates of thy house:

21   that thy daies may be multiplied, and the dayes of thy children in the Land, which our Lord sware to thy fathers, that he would geue it them as long as the heauen hangeth ouer the earth.

22   For if you keepe the commandementes which I command you, and doe them, that you loue the Lord your God, and walke in al his wayes, cleauing to him, ^note

23   our Lord wil destroy al these nations before your face, and you shal possesse them, which are greater and stronger then you.

24   Euerie place, that your foote shal treade, shal be yours. From the desert, and from Libanus, from the great riuer Euphrates vnto the west sea shal be your borders.

25   None shal stand against you: your terrour and feare shal the Lord your God geue vpon al the land that you shal treade, as he hath spoken to you.

26   Behold I sette forth in your sight this day ^note benediction and malediction:

27   benection, if you obey the commandementes of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:

28   malediction, if you obey not the commandementes of the Lord your God, but reuolt from the way, which now I doe shew you, and walke after strange goddes, which you know not.

29   And when the Lord thy God shal haue brought thee into the Land, to the which thou goest to inhabite, thou shalt put the benediction vpon mounte Garizim, the malediction vpon mounte Hebal:

30   which are beyond Iordan behinde the way that bendeth to the going downe of the sunne in the Land of the Chananeite, which dwelleth in the champion countrie against Galgala, which is

Precepts and Iudgements. beside the valle that reacheth and entreth farre.

31   For you shal passe ouer Iordan, to possesse the Land, which the Lord your God wil geue you, that you may haue and possesse it.

32   See therfore that you fulfil the ceremonies and iudgementes, which I shal sette this day in your sight.

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