1. "And so, love the Lord your God, and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments, at all times.
2. Acknowledge, on this day, the things that your sons did not know. For they did not see the chastisements of the Lord your God, his great acts, and powerful hand, and outstretched arm,
3. the signs and works that he did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh, the king, and to his entire land,
4. and to the entire army of the Egyptians, and to their horses and chariots: how the waters of the Red Sea covered them as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord wiped them away, even to the present day;
5. and the things that he accomplished for you in the wilderness, until you arrived at this place;
6. and to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, who was the son of Reuben, those whom the earth, opening its mouth, engulfed with their households and tents, and with their entire substance which they had in the midst of Israel.
7. Your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord, which he has accomplished,
8. so that you would keep all his commandments, which I entrust to you this day, and so that you would be able to enter and possess the land, toward which you are advancing,
9. and so that you may live, for a long time, in the land which the Lord promised under oath to your fathers, and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10. For the land, which you shall enter and possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from which you departed, where, when seed has been sown, waters are brought in by irrigation, in the manner of gardens.
11. Rather, it has mountainous regions and plains, which lay waiting for rain from heaven.
12. And the Lord your God always visits it, and his eyes are upon it, from the beginning of the year, all the way to its end.
13. So then, if you obey my commandments, which I am instructing to you this day, so that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with your whole heart and your whole soul,
14. he will give to your land the early rain and the late rain, so that you may gather your grain, and your wine, and your oil,
15. and your hay from the fields in order to feed your cattle, and so that you yourselves may eat and be satisfied.
16. Be careful, lest perhaps your heart may be deceived, and you might withdraw from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them.
17. And the Lord, becoming angry, might close up heaven, so that the rain would not descend, nor would the earth produce her seedlings, and then you would quickly perish from the excellent land, which the Lord will give to you.
18. Place these words of mine in your hearts and minds, and hang them as a sign on your hands, and arrange them between your eyes.
19. Teach your sons to meditate on them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down or rise up.
20. You shall write them upon the doorposts and the gates of your house,