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Deuteronomy 11 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Love and Serve Yahweh

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1 -

“You shall therefore love Yahweh your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments all your days.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:2 - “So know this day that I am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the [fn]discipline of Yahweh your God—His greatness, His strong hand and His outstretched arm,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:3 - and His signs and His works which He did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - and what He did to Egypt’s army, to its horses and its chariots, when He made the water of the [fn]Red Sea to [fn]engulf them while they were pursuing you, and Yahweh made them perish [fn]utterly;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:5 - and what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:6 - and what 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 every living thing that [fn]followed them, among all Israel
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:7 - but your own eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which He did.
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“You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it;

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9 - so that you may prolong your days on the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:10 - “For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your [fn]foot like a vegetable garden.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:11 - “But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:12 - a land for which Yahweh your God cares; the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the [fn]beginning even to the end of the year.
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“And it will be that, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love Yahweh your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:14 - that [fn]I, Yahweh, will give the rain for your land in its season, the [fn]early and [fn]late rains, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:15 - “And [fn]I will give [fn]grass in your fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:16 - [fn]Beware lest your hearts be deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - and the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which Yahweh is giving you.
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“You shall therefore place 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 [fn]phylacteries between your eyes.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:19 - “And you shall teach them to your sons, speaking 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:20 - “And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:21 - so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as [fn]long as the heavens remain above the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - “For if you are careful to keep this entire commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cling to Him,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:23 - then Yahweh will dispossess all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - “Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the [fn]western sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:25 - “No man will be able to stand before you; Yahweh your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you on all the land on which you set foot, as He has spoken to you.

A Blessing and a Curse

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“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:27 - the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I am commanding you today;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by walking after other gods which you have not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:29 -

“And it will be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30 - “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 Gilgal, beside the [fn]oaks of Moreh?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:31 - “For you are about to cross the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God is giving you, and you shall possess it and live in it,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:32 - and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.
LSB Footnotes
Or instruction
Lit Sea of Reeds
Lit flow over their faces
Lit to this day
Lit was at their feet
Probably a treadmill
Lit beginning of the year
Some ancient versions He
Autumn
Spring
Some ancient versions He
Or plants, cf. Gen 2:15
Lit Watch yourselves
Lit frontlet bands
Lit the days of the heavens
Mediterranean Sea
Lit terebinths
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