Deuteronomy 11
11
If you are loyal to the LORD, he will bless you
Moses said to Israel:
1The LORD is your God, so you must always love him and obey his laws and teachings. 2Remember, he corrected you and not your children. You are the ones who saw the LORD use his great power 3when he worked miracles in Egypt, making terrible things happen to the king and all his people.#Ex 7.8—12.13. 4And when the Egyptian army chased you in their chariots, you saw the LORD drown them and their horses in the Red Sea.#11.4 Red Sea: Hebrew yam suph “Sea of Reeds”, one of the marshes or fresh water lakes near the eastern part of the Nile Delta. This identification is based on Exodus 13.7—14.9, which lists towns on the route of the Israelites before crossing the sea. In the Greek translation of the Scriptures made about 200 BC, the “Sea of Reeds”, was named “Red Sea”. Egypt still suffers from that defeat!#Ex 14.28.
5You saw what the LORD did for you while you were in the desert, right up to the time you arrived here. 6And you saw how the LORD made the ground open up in the middle of our camp underneath the tents of Dathan and Abiram,#11.6 Dathan and Abiram: Hebrew “Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab from the Reuben tribe”. who were swallowed up along with their families, their animals, and their tents.#Nu 16.31,32.
7With your own eyes, you saw the LORD's mighty power do all these things.
8Soon you will cross the River Jordan, and if you obey the laws and teachings I'm giving you today, you will be strong enough to conquer the land 9that the LORD promised your ancestors and their descendants. It's rich with milk and honey, and you will live there and enjoy it for a long time. 10It's better land than you had in Egypt, where you had to struggle just to water your crops.#11.10 where…crops: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. 11But the hills and valleys in the promised land are watered by rain from heaven,#11.10,11 to water your crops…rain from heaven: Egypt was flat and had very little rain. All water for crops had to come from the River Nile. 12because the LORD your God keeps his eye on this land and takes care of it all year long.
13The LORD your God commands you to love him and to serve him with all your heart and soul. If you obey him,#Lv 26.3-5; Dt 7.12-16; 28.1-14. 14-15he will send rain at the right seasons,#11.14,15 rain…seasons: In Palestine, almost all the rain for the year comes during the months from October to April. so you will have more than enough food, wine, and olive oil, and there will be plenty of grass for your cattle.
16But watch out! You will be tempted to turn your backs on the LORD. And if you worship other gods, 17the LORD will become angry and keep the rain from falling. Nothing will grow in your fields, and you will die and disappear from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
18Memorize these laws and think about them. Write down copies and tie them to your wrists and your foreheads to help you obey them.#Dt 6.6-9. 19Teach them to your children. Talk about them all the time—whether you're at home or walking along the road or going to bed at night, or getting up in the morning. 20Write them on the door frames of your homes and on your town gates. 21Then you and your descendants will live a long time in the land that the LORD promised your ancestors. Your families will live there as long as the sky is above the earth.
22Love the LORD your God and obey all the laws and teachings that I'm giving you today. If you live the way the LORD wants, 23he will help you take the land. And even though the nations there are more powerful than you, the LORD will force them to leave when you attack. 24You will capture the land everywhere you go, from the Southern Desert to the Lebanon Mountains, and from the River Euphrates west to the Mediterranean Sea.#Js 1.3-5. 25No one will be able to stand up to you. The LORD will make everyone terrified of you, just as he promised.
26You have a choice—do you want the LORD to bless you, or do you want him to put a curse on you? 27Today I am giving you his laws, and if you obey him, he will bless you. 28But if you disobey him and worship those gods that have never done anything for you, the LORD will put a curse on you.
29After the LORD your God helps you take the land, you must have a ceremony where you announce his blessings from Mount Gerizim and his curses from Mount Ebal.#Dt 27.11-14; Js 8.33-35. 30You know that these two mountains are west of the River Jordan in land now controlled by the Canaanites living in the Jordan valley. The mountains are west of the road near the sacred trees of Moreh on the other side of Gilgal.
31Soon you will cross the River Jordan to conquer the land that the LORD your God is giving you. And when you have settled there, 32be careful to obey his laws and teachings that I am giving you today.
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Deuteronomy 11
11
Love and Serve the Lord
1 # See ch. 6:5 “You shall therefore love the Lord your God and #[Ezek. 44:16]; See Lev. 8:35keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always. 2And consider today (since I am not speaking to #ch. 31:13 your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline#11:2 Or instruction of the Lord your God, #ch. 3:24; 5:24 his greatness, #See ch. 4:34his mighty hand and his outstretched arm, 3#ch. 6:22; 7:19his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land, 4and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, #Ex. 14:27, 28; 15:9, 10; Ps. 106:11how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day, 5and #See Ps. 78:14-40what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place, 6and #Num. 16:1, 31; 27:3; Ps. 106:17what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, 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 midst of all Israel. 7For your eyes have seen #Judg. 2:7all the great work of the Lord that he did.
8“You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may #ch. 31:6, 7; Josh. 1:6, 7, 9, 18be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess, 9and #See ch. 4:40 that you may live long in the land #See Gen. 50:24 that the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, #Ex. 3:8a land flowing with milk and honey. 10For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it,#11:10 Hebrew watered it with your feet like a garden of vegetables. 11#ch. 8:7But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, 12a land that the Lord your God cares for. #[1 Kgs. 9:3; Jer. 24:6]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 indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, #See ch. 6:5to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14#ch. 28:12; Lev. 26:4 he#11:14 Samaritan, Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew I; also verse 15 will give the rain for your land in its season, #[Job 29:23; Jer. 5:24; Hos. 6:3; Joel 2:23; James 5:7]the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. 15#Ps. 104:14 And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and #ch. 6:11; [Joel 2:19]you shall eat and be full. 16Take care #[Job 31:27] lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and #ver. 28; See ch. 6:14serve other gods and worship them; 17then #ch. 6:15 the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he #1 Kgs. 8:35; 2 Chr. 6:26; 7:13; [ch. 28:23, 24; Lev. 26:19, 20; Amos 4:7; Zech. 14:17; Rev. 11:6] will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and #ch. 4:26; 30:18; Josh. 23:15, 16you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
18 # See ch. 6:6 “You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and #See ch. 6:8you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 20#ch. 6:9You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21#See ch. 4:40 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, #Ps. 89:29as long as the heavens are above the earth. 22For if #ch. 6:17 you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and #See ch. 10:20holding fast to him, 23then the Lord #See ch. 4:38 will drive out all these nations before you, and you will #ch. 9:1dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. 24#Josh. 1:3; [Josh. 14:9] Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be #See Ex. 23:31from the wilderness to#11:24 Hebrew and the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. 25#See ch. 7:24 No one shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay #ch. 2:25 the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, #Ex. 23:27as he promised you.
26 # ch. 30:1, 15, 19 “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 27#See ch. 28:2-14the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, 28and #See ch. 28:15-45 the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, #See ch. 6:14to go after other gods that you have not known. 29And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set #ch. 27:12, 13; Josh. 8:33the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. 30Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the #See ch. 1:1 Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside #Judg. 7:1the oak#11:30 Septuagint, Syriac; see Genesis 12:6. Hebrew oaks, or terebinths of Moreh? 31For you are #ch. 9:1; 12:10; Josh. 1:11to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it, 32you shall be careful #ch. 5:32; 12:32to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
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