Deuteronomy 11
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1Love the Lord your God, and do what he wants you to do. Always obey his laws, rules, and commands. 2Remember today the discipline you learned from the Lord your God. (⌞I’m not talking⌟ to your children. They didn’t see or experience any of this.) You saw and experienced his great power—his mighty hand and powerful arm. 3You saw the miraculous signs and deeds he did in Egypt to Pharaoh (the king of Egypt) and to his whole country. 4You saw what he did to the Egyptian army, its horses and chariots. He drowned them in the Red Sea when they pursued you. So the Lord destroyed them forever. 5You saw what he did for you in the desert until you came here. 6You also saw what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, from the tribe of Reuben. In the middle of all the Israelites the ground opened up and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and every living creature with them. 7You saw with your own eyes all these spectacular things that the Lord did.
8Obey all the commands I’m giving you today. Then you will have the strength to enter and take possession of the land once you’ve crossed ⌞the Jordan River⌟. 9Then you will also live for a long time in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors and their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey.
10The land you’re about to enter and take possession of isn’t like the land you left in Egypt. There you used to plant your seed, and you had to water it like a vegetable garden. 11The land you’re about to enter is a land with hills and valleys, watered by rain from the sky. 12It is a land the Lord your God cares about. He watches over it all year long.
13If you faithfully obey the commands that I’m giving you today, love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14I will send rain on your land at the right time, both in the fall and in the spring. Then you will gather your own grain, new wine, and olive oil. 15I will provide grass in the fields for your animals, and you will be able to eat all you want.
16Be careful, or you’ll be tempted to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. 17The Lord will become angry with you. He’ll shut the sky so that there’ll be no rain. Then the ground won’t grow any crops, and you’ll quickly disappear from this good land the Lord is giving you.
18Take these words of mine to heart and keep them in mind. ⌞Write them down,⌟ tie them around your wrist, and wear them as headbands as a reminder. 19Teach them to your children, and talk about them when you’re at home or away, when you lie down or get up. 20Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. 21Then you and your children will live for a long time in this land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors—as long as there’s a sky above the earth.
22Faithfully obey all these commands I’m giving you. Love the Lord your God, follow all his directions, and be loyal to him. 23Then the Lord will force all these people out of your way. Then you will take possession of ⌞the land belonging to⌟ people taller and stronger than you. 24I will give you every place on which you set foot. Your borders will be from the desert to Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea. 25No one will be able to stop you. As the Lord your God promised, he will make people terrified of you wherever you go in this land.
Choose the Blessing or the Curse
26Today I’m giving you the choice of a blessing or a curse. 27You’ll be blessed if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I’m giving you today. 28You’ll be cursed if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God, if you turn from the way I’m commanding you to live today, and if you worship other gods you never knew. 29When the Lord your God brings you into the land you’re about to enter, recite the blessing from Mount Gerizim and the curse from Mount Ebal. 30(These mountains are on the west side of the Jordan, beyond the road that goes west, in the region of the Canaanites who live on the plains facing Gilgal, next to the oak trees of Moreh.) 31You’re about to cross the Jordan River to enter and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and live there, 32be careful to obey all the laws and rules I’m giving you today.
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Deuteronomy 11
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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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