Deuteronomy 11:1-7
Those who have seen the Lord's mighty acts must let covenant memory produce covenant love, reverent obedience, and sober refusal to repeat rebellion.
1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
2 Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,
3 his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, 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 Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh 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, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;
7 but your eyes have seen all of Yahweh’s great work which he did.
Those who have seen the LORD's mighty acts must let covenant memory produce covenant love, reverent obedience, and sober refusal to repeat rebellion.
Moses commands Israel to love the LORD and keep His covenant requirements by remembering the discipline, majesty, deliverance, judgment, and wilderness acts that the present generation personally saw with their own eyes.
Moses addresses Israel on the plains of Moab after rehearsing the LORD's mercy, covenant renewal, and demand for heart obedience. The generation before him includes those who saw the LORD's mighty acts from Egypt through the wilderness, and Moses presses that eyewitness history into present covenant responsibility before entry into the land.
Love, Obedience, and the Land Held by the Rain of Heaven
The first-table expansion closes with the most direct appeal in Deuteronomy: love the LORD and keep his commandments always, not merely today — because the land ahead is not like Egypt's self-irrigating fields but a land the eyes of the LORD watch continually and whose rain depends entirely on whether Israel loves and serves him or turns away to other gods, making the covenant's blessing and curse a matter of life decided each day in the geography of their own hearts.