Deuteronomy 11
Rewards of Obedience
1“You shall therefore alove the Lord your God, and always bkeep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. 2“Know this day cthat I am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the ▼▼ Or instruction
discipline of the Lord your God— His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm, 3and eHis signs and His works which He did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land; 4and what He did to Egypt’s army, to its horses and its chariots, fwhen He made the water of the ▼▼ Lit Sea of Reeds
Red Sea to ▼▼ Lit flow over their faces
engulf them while they were pursuing you, and the Lord ▼▼ Lit to this day
completely destroyed them; 5and what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place; 6and jwhat He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and kevery living thing that ▼▼ Lit was at their feet
followed them, among all Israel— 7but your own eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord which He did. 8“You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, mso that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it; 9 nso that you may prolong your days on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their ▼▼ Lit seed
descendants, pa land flowing with milk and honey. 10“For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your ▼▼ I.e. probably a treadmill
foot like a vegetable garden. 11“But rthe land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven, 12a land for which the Lord your God cares; sthe eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the ▼▼ Lit beginning of the year
beginning even to the end of the year. 13“It shall come about, uif you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, vto love the Lord your God and to serve Him wwith all your heart and all your soul, 14that ▼▼ So some ancient versions; M.T. reads I
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yHe will give the rain for your land in its season, the ▼▼ I.e. autumn
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aaearly and ▼▼ I.e. spring
late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil. 15 ▼▼ So some ancient versions; M.T. reads I
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ad“He will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and aeyou will eat and be satisfied. 16 ▼▼ Lit Watch yourselves
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ag“Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them. 17“Or ahthe anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will aishut up the heavens ajso that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and akyou will perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you. 18 al“You shall therefore ▼▼ Lit put
impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as ▼▼ Lit frontlet bands
frontals ▼▼ Lit between your eyes
on your forehead. 19 ap“You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. 20 aq“You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21so that aryour days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as ▼▼ Lit the days of the heavens
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atlong as the heavens remain above the earth. 22“For if you are aucareful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, avto love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and awhold fast to Him, 23then the Lord will axdrive out all these nations from before you, and you will aydispossess nations greater and mightier than you. 24 az“Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; bayour border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as ▼▼ I.e. the Mediterranean
the western sea. 25 bc“No man will be able to stand before you; the Lord your God will lay the dread of you and the fear of you on all the land on which you set foot, as He has spoken to you. 26 bd“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 27the beblessing, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today; 28and the bfcurse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, ▼▼ Lit to follow
by following other gods which you have not known. 29“It shall come about, when the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, bhthat you shall place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. 30“Are they not across the Jordan, west of the way toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite biGilgal, beside bjthe ▼▼ Lit terebinths
oaks of Moreh? 31“For you are about to cross the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and blyou shall possess it and live in it, 32and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.
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