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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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12 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 even unto the end of the year.

13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

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