You are to love Adonoy, your God, and you are to guard His watch [word], and His statutes, and His laws, and His commandments, all the years.

You will know today that not with your children who have not known and who have not seen the teaching of Adonoy, your God—His greatness, His powerful hand and His extended arm,

and His signs and His deeds that He performed within Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his entire land;

And what He did to the Egyptian army [host], to its horses and to its chariots—that He flooded the waters of Yam Suf over them when they were chasing you—Adonoy destroyed them until this day;

And what He did for you in the wilderness, until you arrived at this place;

And what He did to Dosson and to Avirom sons of Eli’ov son of Re’uven, that the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and [the members of] their families and their tents and all the sustenance at their feet [that was with them] amid all of Yisroel.

Rather your eyes have been witnessing the entire overwhelming activity of Adonoy that He has performed.

You will guard the entire mitzvah that I am commanding you today, in order that you be encouraged and will arrive in, [amd go up to,] and inherit the land that you are crossing over there to inherit.

And in order that you will last long on the land that Adonoy swore to your forefathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing [producing] milk and honey.

For the land where you are arriving to inherit is not like the land of Egypt from which you departed, where you planted your seed and watered [it] on foot like a vegetable garden.

Rather, the land where you are crossing to inherit is a land of mountains and plains—by the rain of the skies will you drink water.

A land that Adonoy, your God, looks after; the eyes of Adonoy, your God, are always upon it, from the year’s beginning until the year’s end.

Should you thoroughly heed My commandments that I am commanding you today—to love Adonoy, your God, and to serve [before] Him with all your desires and with your entire beings,

I will provide the rain of your land in its time, fall rain and spring rain, and you will harvest your grain and your wine and your olive oil.

And I will provide grass in your field for your animals, and you will eat and be full.

Look out for yourselves lest your heart be misled [mistaken] and you turn away and serve other gods [idols of the nations] and bow to them,

And Adonoy’s anger will be aroused against you, and He will restrain the skies and there will be no rain, and the soil will not yield its produce, and you will swiftly be removed from upon the good land that Adonoy is giving you.

You are to place these words of Mine on your mind and on your being, and bind them as a sign on your hand and they will be totafos [tefillin] on your head;

And you are to teach them to your sons to speak in them when you sit at home, and when you journey on the road, and when you go to sleep, and when you rise;

And you are to write them on the doorposts [and affix them to the lintels] of your home and your gateways.

In order that they will be many—your years and the years of your children on the soil that Adonoy swore to your forefathers to give them, like the years of heaven on earth.

For if you truly guard this entire mitzvah that I am commanding you to perform, to love Adonoy, your God, to walk in all His ways [that are correct before Him] and to cling to Him [come near to the fear of Him].

Adonoy will expel all these nations before you, and you will inherit nations greater and more powerful than you.

Every place that the sole of your foot steps on will be yours, from the wilderness and the Lebanon, form the river—the Euphrates River—up to the ultimate [western] sea, will be your boundary.

No man will stand up to you; fear of you and awe of you will Adonoy, your God, place upon the surface of the entire land that you are stepping into, as He promised you.

Look, I place before you today, a blessing and a curse.

The blessing—that you heed [obey] the commandments of Adonoy, your God, that I am commanding you today.

And the curse—if you do not heed the commandments of Adonoy, your God, and you veer from the course which I command you this day, to follow other gods [idols of the nations] which you did not know.

When Adonoy, your God, has brought you to the land that you are coming to inherit, you shall place the blessers on Mount Gerizim and the cursers on Mount Eival.

Are they not across the Yardein and far beyond, along the route of the sunset? In the land of the Canaanites who dwell on the Arava Plain, opposite Gilgol, next to the [at the side of] Moreh Plain.

For you shall pass across the Yardein to come to inherit the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you; you will inherit it and will dwell in it.

You will guard to fulfill all the statutes and the laws that I am setting before you today.