Deuteronomy 11:1-12

1“Therefore, love the Lord your God and always keep his mandate and his statutes, ordinances, and commands.

2Understand today that it is not your children who experienced or saw the discipline of the Lord your God: His greatness, strong hand, and outstretched arm;

3his signs and the works he did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;

4what he did to Egypt’s army, its horses and chariots, when he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued you, and he destroyed them completely;

5what he did to you in the wilderness until you reached this place;

6and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when in the middle of the whole Israelite camp the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing with them.

7Your own eyes have seen every great work the Lord has done.

8“Keep every command I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to cross into and possess the land you are to inherit,

9and so that you may live long in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand as in a vegetable garden.

11But the land you are entering to possess is a land of mountains and valleys, watered by rain from the sky.

12It is a land the Lord your God cares for. He is always watching over it from the beginning to the end of the year.