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Deuteronomy 11 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Love and Serve the Lord

Deu 11:1

Deu 11:1“You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.

Deu 11:2

Deu 11:2And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline[fn] of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,

Deu 11:3

Deu 11:3his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land,

Deu 11:4

Deu 11:4and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how 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,

Deu 11:5

Deu 11:5and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place,

Deu 11:6

Deu 11:6and what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel.

Deu 11:7

Deu 11:7For your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD that he did.

Deu 11:8

Deu 11:8“You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess,

Deu 11:9

Deu 11:9and that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deu 11:10

Deu 11:10For 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,[fn] like a garden of vegetables.

Deu 11:11

Deu 11:11But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven,

Deu 11:12

Deu 11:12a land that the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

Deu 11:13

Deu 11:13“And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deu 11:14

Deu 11:14he[fn] will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.

Deu 11:15

Deu 11:15And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

Deu 11:16

Deu 11:16Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them;

Deu 11:17

Deu 11:17then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the LORD is giving you.

Deu 11:18

Deu 11:18“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Deu 11:19

Deu 11:19You 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.

Deu 11:20

Deu 11:20You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

Deu 11:21

Deu 11:21that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.

Deu 11:22

Deu 11:22For if 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 holding fast to him,

Deu 11:23

Deu 11:23then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.

Deu 11:24

Deu 11:24Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to[fn] the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.

Deu 11:25

Deu 11:25No one shall be able to stand against you. The LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.

Deu 11:26

Deu 11:26“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

Deu 11:27

Deu 11:27the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today,

Deu 11:28

Deu 11:28and 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, to go after other gods that you have not known.

Deu 11:29

Deu 11:29And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

Deu 11:30

Deu 11:30Are 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 Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak[fn] of Moreh?

Deu 11:31

Deu 11:31For you are to 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,

Deu 11:32

Deu 11:32you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
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Hebrew watered it with your feet
Samaritan, Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew I; also verse 15
Hebrew and
Septuagint, Syriac; see Genesis 12:6. Hebrew oaks, or terebinths
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