Deuteronomy 11

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Obedience and Discipline

¹You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

¹And you shall love YHWH your God, and keep His charge, and His statutes, and His ordinances, and His commandments, all the days.

²Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;

²And know today that it is not your children who have known, and who have seen the discipline of YHWH your God, His greatness, and His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm,

³the signs and works He did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;

³and His signs and His acts that He did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to all his land,

⁴what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea^a engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;

⁴and what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and their chariots—how the waters of the Red Sea He caused to flow upon them as they pursued you, and how YHWH has destroyed them to this day,

⁵what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place;

⁵and what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place,

⁶and what He did in the midst of all the Israelites to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that belonged to them.

⁶and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses and their tents and every living thing that was was at their feet, in the midst of all Israel.

⁷For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.

⁷But your eyes have seen every great act of YHWH that He did.

God’s Great Blessings

⁸You shall therefore keep every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,

⁸And you shall keep every commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong and go in and possess the land, which you are passing over to possess it,

⁹and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁹and so that you may prolong your days in the land that YHWH swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁰For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.

¹⁰For the land that you are going in to possess, it is not like the land of Egypt, where you have come from, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot as for a garden of herbs.

¹¹But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.

¹¹And the land that you are passing over to possess is a land of hills and valleys—from the rain of the heavens it drinks water—

¹²It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.

¹²a land for which YHWH your God cares; the eyes of YHWH your God are always on it from the beginning of the year and to the very end of the year.

¹³So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

¹³And it shall come to pass, if you listen carefully to My commandments that I am commanding you today, to love YHWH your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

¹⁴then I will provide^a rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.

¹⁴then 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 and your new wine and your oil.

¹⁵And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.

¹⁵and I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be satisfied.

¹⁶But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

¹⁶Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,

¹⁷or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.

¹⁷and the anger of YHWH be kindled against you and He shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, and the land not yield produce, and you perish quickly from the good land that YHWH is giving to you.

Remember God’s Words

¹⁸Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

¹⁸And you shall place these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hands, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

¹⁹Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

¹⁹And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them in your sitting in your house, and in your walking in the way, and in your lying down, and in your rising up.

²⁰Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,

²⁰And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

²¹so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

²¹that your days may be multiplied—and the days of your children—in the land that YHWH swore to your fathers to give to them, as the days of the heavens are above the earth.

²²For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

²²For if you carefully keep all this command that I am commanding you to do, to love YHWH your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him,

²³then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

²³then YHWH will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

²⁴Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.^a

²⁴Every place where the sole of your foot treads in it shall be yours, from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, and to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.

²⁵No man will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you.

²⁵No man shall be able to stand against you. The terror of you and the fear of you YHWH your God will put upon the face of all the land where you tread in it, as He has said to you.

A Blessing and a Curse

²⁶See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—

²⁶See, I set before you today a blessing and a curse—

²⁷a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,

²⁷the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of YHWH your God that I command you today,

²⁸but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

²⁸and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of YHWH your God and turn aside from the way that I command you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.

²⁹When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

²⁹And it shall come to pass, when YHWH your God has brought you into the land that you are going in to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

³⁰Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak^a of Moreh?

³⁰Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the way of the going in of the sun, in the land of the Canaanite dwelling in the plain opposite Gilgal beside the Oak of Moreh?

³¹For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,

³¹For you are passing over the Jordan to go in to possess the land that YHWH your God is giving to you, and you will possess it and dwell in it.

³²be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.

³²And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and ordinances that I set before you today.