1. So love the Lord your God and follow his instruction, his regulations, his case laws, and his commandments always.
2. And know right now what your children haven’t known or yet witnessed:The Lord your God’s discipline, his power, his mighty hand and outstretched arm;
3. the signs and the acts that he performed in the heart of Egyptian territory, against Egypt’s King Pharaoh and all his land;
4. what God did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots—how he made the water of the Reed Sea flow over their heads when they chased after you, but the Lord destroyed them, and that’s how things stand right now;
5. what the Lord did for you in the desert, until you arrived at this place;
6. and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the descendants of Eliab the Reubenite, when the ground opened up its mouth and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and every living thing they possessed in the presence of all Israel.
7. Your own eyes witnessed each of these powerful acts the Lord performed.
8. So keep every part of the commandment that I am giving you today so that you stay strong to enter and take possession of the land that you are crossing over to possess,
9. and so that you might prolong your life on the fertile land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give to them and their descendants—a land full of milk and honey.