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12 It’s a land that the Lord cares for: the Lord’s eyes are on it constantly from the first of the year until the very end of the year.

13 Now, if you completely obey God’s[a] commandments that I am giving you right now, by loving the Lord your God and by serving him with all your heart and all your being, 14 then he[b] will provide rain for your land at the right time—early rain and late rain—so you can stock up your grain, wine, and oil.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:13 LXX his; MT my
  2. Deuteronomy 11:14 Sam, LXX, DSS (8QMez); Heb, Vulg, Syr, Tg, and several DSS I, in which case the text shifts to direct divine discourse.

12 It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes(A) of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.

13 So if you faithfully obey(B) the commands I am giving you today—to love(C) the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul(D) 14 then I will send rain(E) on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains,(F) so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil.

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