1 Therefore you shall love Shema your God and keep his requirements, his rules and his commandments and his decrees always.

2 And know today that [I speak] with you rather than your children, who have not known or seen the discipline of Shema your God, his greatness, and his mighty hand and his outstretched arm, 3 his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his land, 4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the sea of Sof flow over them as they pursued you, and how Shema has destroyed them to this day, 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; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up and all the men who belonged to Korah, and their households and their tents, and every living thing that followed them among all Israel. 7 But your eyes have seen all the great work of Shema which he did. 8 Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you are entering to possess, 9 and so that you may live long in the land which Shema swore to your fathers to give to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10 For the land which you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet, like a vegetable garden, 11 but the land which you are crossing over to possess, is a land of hills and valleys, [which] drinks water from the rain of heaven, 12 the land which Shema your God cares for. The eyes of Shema your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

13 And if you listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Shema your God, to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 he will give the rain of your land in its season, the early rain and the late rain, so that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. 15 And he will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and it shall eat and be full. 16 Be careful that your heart is not deceived and you do not turn aside and serve other gods and worship them, 17 otherwise the anger of Shema will burn against you, and he will shut the heavens, so that there shall be no rain and the land shall not yield its fruit, and you will quickly be destroyed from the good land which Shema gives you. 18 Therefore you shall store these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall tie them as a sign on your hands, and they shall be bands between your eyes. 19 And you shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in the house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. 20 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates, 21 so that you and your children may live long in the land which Shema swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

22 For if you diligently keep all this commandment which I command you today, to do it, to love Shema your God, to walk in all his ways, and to hold fast to him, 23 then Shema will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall drive out nations greater and mightier than yourself. 24 Every place on which the sole of your foot shall step shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon and from the river, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. 25 No man shall be able to stand against you. Shema your God shall put fear and dread of you on all the land that you shall step on, as he has spoken to you.

26 Look, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Shema your God which I command you today, 28 and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Shema your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to follow other gods which you have not known. 29 And when Shema your God brings you into the land which you are entering to possess, you shall set the blessing on [Mount] Ārgarizem and the curse on Mount Ebal. 30 Look, they are beyond the Jordan, beyond the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites that live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside Elon Moreh, opposite Shechem!⁠a

31 For you are to cross the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Shema your God gives you. And when you possess it and live in it, 32 you shall be careful to do all the decrees and all the rules which I set before you today.