5 “Your children didn’t see how the lord cared for you in the wilderness until you arrived here.
6 They didn’t see what he did to Dathan and Abiram (the sons of Eliab, a descendant of Reuben) when the earth opened its mouth in the Israelite camp and swallowed them, along with their households and tents and every living thing that belonged to them.
7 But you have seen the lord perform all these mighty deeds with your own eyes!
8 “Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today, so you may have strength to go in and take over the land you are about to enter.
9 If you obey, you will enjoy a long life in the land the lord swore to give to your ancestors and to you, their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey!
10 For the land you are about to enter and take over is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your seed and made irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden.
11 Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain—