Deuteronomy 11 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Love and Obedience Rewarded

The Blessings of the Promised Land

Deu 11:1“Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.

Deu 11:2

Deu 11:2“Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the LORD your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm—

Deu 11:3

Deu 11:3“His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;

Deu 11:4

Deu 11:4“what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;

Deu 11:5

Deu 11:5“what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place;

Deu 11:6

Deu 11:6“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, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel—

Deu 11:7

Deu 11:7“but your eyes have seen every great act of the LORD which He did.

Deu 11:8

Deu 11:8“Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess,

Deu 11:9

Deu 11:9“and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’[fn]

Deu 11:10

Deu 11:10“For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden;

Deu 11:11

Deu 11:11“but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven,

Deu 11:12

Deu 11:12“a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.

Deu 11:13

Deu 11:13‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deu 11:14

Deu 11:14‘then I[fn] will give you 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.

Deu 11:15

Deu 11:15‘And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.’

Deu 11:16

Deu 11:16“Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,

Deu 11:17

Deu 11:17“lest the LORD’s anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you.

Deu 11:18

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

Deu 11:19

Deu 11:19“You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Deu 11:20

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

Deu 11:21

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

Deu 11:22

Deu 11:22“For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

Deu 11:23

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

Deu 11:24

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

Deu 11:25

Deu 11:25“No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.

Deu 11:26

Deu 11:26“Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

Deu 11:27

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

Deu 11:28

Deu 11:28“and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

Deu 11:29

Deu 11:29“Now it shall be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

Deu 11:30

Deu 11:30“Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?

Deu 11:31

Deu 11:31“For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it.

Deu 11:32

Deu 11:32“And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.

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NKJV Footnotes

(11:9)

Exodus 3:8

(11:14)

Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Vulgate read He.

(11:24)

That is, the Mediterranean

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