of lordes} a great God, a mighty and a terrible which regardeth no
man's person nor taketh gifts: but doeth right unto the fatherless and
widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment. Love
therefore the stranger, for ye were strangers your selves in the land
of Egypt. Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God and serve him and cleave
unto him and swear by his name, for he is thy praise and he is thy God
that hath done these great and terrible things for thee, which thine
eyes have seen. Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy souls,
and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven in
multitude.
Chapter .xi.
Love the LORD thy God and keep his observances, his ordinances, his
laws and his commandments alway. And call to mind this day that which
your children have neither known nor seen: even the nurture of the LORD
your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his stretched out arm: his
miracles and his acts which he did among the Egyptians, even unto
Pharao the king of Egypt and unto all his land: and what he did unto
the host of the Egyptians, unto their horses and chariots, how he
brought the water of the red sea upon them as they chased you, and how
the LORD hath brought them to nought unto this day: and what he did
unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place: and what he
did unto Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab the son of Ruben, how the
earth opened her mouth and swallowed them with their households and
their tents, and all their substance that was in their possession, in
the midst of Israel. For your eyes have seen all the great deeds of the
LORD which he did. Keep therefore all the commandments which I command
thee this day that ye may be strong and go and conquer the land whither
ye go to possess it, and that ye may prolong your days in the land
which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their
seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. For the land whither
thou goest to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence thou
camest out, where thou sowedest thy seed and wateredest it with thy
labour as a garden of herbs: but the land whither ye go over to possess
it, is a land of hills and valleys and drinketh water of the rain of
heaven, and a land which the LORD thy God careth for. The eyes of the
LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year unto
the latter end of the year. If thou shalt hearken therefore unto my
commandments which I command you this day, that ye love the LORD your
God and serve him with all your hearts and with all your souls: then he
will give rain unto your land in due season, both the first rain and
the latter, and thou shalt gather in thy corn, thy wine and thine oil.
And he will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle: and thou shalt eat
and fill thyself. But beware that your hearts deceive {disceave} you
not that ye turn aside and serve strange gods and worship them, and
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