Deuteronomy 11
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Remember and Obey
1“Therefore, love the Lord your God and always keep his mandate and his statutes, ordinances, and commands. 2Understand today that it is not your children who experienced or saw the discipline of the Lord your God:
His greatness, strong hand, and outstretched arm;#1Kg 8:42; 2Ch 6:32 3his signs and the works he did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;#Ex 7:1–12:51 4what he did to Egypt’s army, its horses and chariots, when he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued you, and he destroyed them#Ex 14 completely;#11:4 Lit to this day 5what he did to you in the wilderness until you reached this place; 6and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when in the middle of the whole Israelite camp the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing with them.#Nm 16
7Your own eyes have seen#Dt 3:21; 4:3; 29:2–3; Jos 24:7 every great work the Lord has done.
8“Keep every command I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to cross into and possess the land you are to inherit, 9and so that you may live long#Dt 4:40; 5:16; 25:15 in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.#Ex 3:17; Lv 20:24; Nm 13:27; Dt 6:3; 26:9,15; 27:3; 31:20; Jos 5:6; Jr 11:5; Ezk 20:6 10For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand#11:10 Lit foot as in a vegetable garden. 11But the land you are entering to possess is a land of mountains and valleys, watered by rain from the sky. 12It is a land the Lord your God cares for. He is always watching over it#Is 27:3 from the beginning to the end of the year.
13“If you carefully obey my commands I am giving you today, to love the Lord your God and worship him with all your heart and all your soul, 14I#11:14 DSS, Sam, LXX read he will provide rain for your land in the proper time, the autumn and spring rains,#Jr 5:24; Jms 5:7 and you will harvest your grain, new wine, and fresh oil.#Dt 7:13; 14:23; 18:4; 2Ch 32:28; Neh 10:39; 13:5,12; Hs 2:22; Jl 2:19,24 15I#11:15 DSS, Sam, LXX read He will provide grass in your fields for your livestock. You will eat and be satisfied.#Lv 25:19; Dt 6:11; 8:10; 31:20 16Be careful#Ex 34:12; Dt 4:23; 6:12; 8:11; 12:13,19,30; 15:9 that you are not enticed to turn aside, serve, and bow in worship to other gods.#Dt 17:3; 29:26; 30:17; Jos 23:16; Jdg 2:17; 2Ch 7:19,22 17Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you.#Ex 22:24; Dt 7:4; 31:17; Jos 23:16 He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain;#1Kg 8:35; 2Ch 2:6; 6:26; 7:13 the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land#Dt 8:7 the Lord is giving you.
18“Imprint these words of mine on your hearts and minds, bind them as a sign on your hands, and let them be a symbol#11:18 Or phylactery; Mt 23:5 on your foreheads.#11:18 Lit symbol between your eyes; Ex 13:16; Dt 6:8 19Teach them to your children,#Dt 4:9–10 talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates,#Dt 6:6–9 21so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors.#Dt 1:35 22For if you carefully observe every one of these commands I am giving you to follow — to love the Lord your God, walk in all his ways, and remain faithful#11:22 Lit and hold on to him — 23the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will drive out nations greater and stronger than you are.#Dt 4:38; 9:1 24Every place the sole of your foot treads will be yours.#Jos 1:3–5 Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon and from the Euphrates River#11:24 Some Hb mss, LXX, Tg, Vg read the great river, the river Euphrates to the Mediterranean Sea.#Gn 15:18–20; Ex 23:31 25No one will be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will put fear and dread of you in all the land where you set foot, as he has promised you.#Dt 2:25
A Blessing and a Curse
26“Look, today I set before you a blessing and a curse:#Dt 30:15; Jr 21:8 27there will be a blessing, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God I am giving you today, 28and a curse, if you do not obey the commands of the Lord your God and you turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods you have not known. 29When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal. 30Aren’t these mountains across the Jordan, beyond the western road in the land of the Canaanites, who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, near the oaks#11:30 Sam, LXX, Syr, Aq, Sym read oak; Gn 12:6 of Moreh? 31For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you possess it and settle in it, 32be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances I set before you today.
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Deuteronomy 11
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1 THEREFORE YOU shall love the Lord your God and keep His charge, His statutes, His precepts, and His commandments always.
2 And know this day–for I am not speaking to your children who have not [personally] known and seen it–the instruction and discipline of the Lord your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;
3 His signs and His deeds which He did in 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 chariots, how He made the waters of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued you, and how the Lord 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, sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel. [Num. 26:9, 10.]
7 For your eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord which He did.
8 Therefore you shall keep all the commandments which I command you today, that you may be strong and go in and possess the land which you go across [the Jordan] to possess,
9 And that you may live long in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 For the land which you go in to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot laboriously as in a garden of vegetables.
11 But the land which you enter to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water of the rain of the heavens,
12 A land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
13 And if you will diligently heed My commandments which I command you this day–to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being–
14 I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
15 And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, that you may eat and be full.
16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your [minds and] hearts be deceived and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,
17 And the Lord's anger be kindled against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the land will not yield its fruit, and you perish quickly off the good land which the Lord gives you.
18 Therefore you shall lay up these My words in your [minds and] hearts and in your [entire] being, and bind them for a sign upon your hands and as forehead bands between your eyes.
19 And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you rise up.
20 And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21 That your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
22 For if you diligently keep all this commandment which I command you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him–
23 Then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.
24 Every place upon which the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea [the Mediterranean] your territory shall be.
25 There shall no man be able to stand before you; the Lord your God shall lay the fear and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread, as He has said to you.
26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse–
27 The blessing if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day;
28 And the curse if you will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you this day to go after other gods, which you have not known.
29 And when the Lord your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. [Josh. 8:33.]
30 Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, where the sun goes down, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks or terebinths of Moreh?
31 For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you shall possess it and live in it.
32 And you shall be watchful to do all the statutes and ordinances which I set before you this day.
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