1. "You shall therefore love the Lord your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
2. Know this day that I am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the Lord your God-His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm,
3. and His signs and His works which He did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land;
4. and what He did to Egypt's army, to its horses and its chariots, when He made the water of the Red Sea to engulf them while they were pursuing you, and the Lord completely destroyed them;
5. and what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place;
6. and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, among all Israel-
7. but your own eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord which He did.
8. "You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it;
9. so that you may prolong your days on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.