The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Deuteronomy 11
1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your
God, andkeephis instructions, his statutes,
his ordinances, and his commandments,
always.
2 Know this day—for I don’t speak with
your children who have not known, and
who have not seen the chastisement of
Yahweh your God, his greatness, his
mighty hand, his outstretched arm,
3 his signs, and his works, which he did
in the middle of 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 to their chariots; how
he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how
Yahweh 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, the sons of Eliab, the 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 middle of all Israel;
7 but your eyes have seen all of Yahweh’s
great work which he did.
8 Therefore you shall keep the entire
commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in
and possess the land that you go over to
possess;
9 and that you may prolong your days in
the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring,
a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 For the land, where you go in to possess isn’t like the land of Egypt that you
came out of, where you sowed your seed
and watered it with your foot, as a garden
of herbs;
11 butthe land that yougo over to possess
is a land of hills and valleys which drinks
water from the rain of the sky,
12 a land which Yahweh your God cares
for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on
it, from the beginning of the year even to
the end of the year.
13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I
command you today, to love Yahweh your God,
and to serve him with all your heart and
with all your soul,
14 that 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 I will give grass in your fields for your
livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
16 Be careful, lest your heart be deceived,
and you turn away to serve other gods and
worship them;
17 and Yahweh’s anger be kindled
against you, and he shut up the sky so that
there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield
its fruit; and you perish quickly from off
the good land which Yahweh gives you.
18 Therefore you shall lay up these words
of mine in your heart and in your soul. You
shall bind them for a sign on your hand,
and they shall be for frontlets between
your eyes.
19 You shall teach them to your children,
talking ofthem whenyousitinyourhouse,
when you walk by the way, when you lie
down, and when you rise up.
20 You shall write them on the door posts
of your house and on your gates;
21 that your days and your children’s
days may be multiplied in the land which
Yahweh swore to your fathers to give
them, as the days of the heavens above the
earth.
22 For if you shall diligently keep allthese
commandments whichI commandyou—to
do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk
in all his ways, and to cling to him—
23 then Yahweh will drive out all these
nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater
and mightier than
yourselves.
24 Every place on which the sole of your
foottreads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon,from the river, the river
Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be
your border.
25 No man will be able to stand before
you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of
you and the dread of you on all the land
that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.
26 Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
27 the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I
command you today;
28 and the curse, if you do not listen to
the commandments of Yahweh your God,
but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods
which you have not known.
29 It shall happen, when Yahweh your
God brings you into the land that you go
to possess, that you shall set the blessing
on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount
Ebal.
30 Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind
the way of the going down of the sun, in
the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah near Gilgal, beside the oaks of
Moreh?
31 For you are to pass over the Jordan
to go in to possess the land which Yahweh
your God gives you, and you shall possess
it and dwell in it.
32 You shall observe to do all the statutes
and the ordinances which I set before you
today.