Deuteronomy 11 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Deu 11:1“You must love the LORD your God and obey all his requirements, decrees, regulations, and commands.

Deu 11:2Keep in mind that I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of the LORD your God or seen his greatness and his strong hand and powerful arm.

Deu 11:3

Deu 11:3They didn’t see the miraculous signs and wonders he performed in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his land.

Deu 11:4

Deu 11:4They didn’t see what the LORD did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses and chariots—how he drowned them in the Red Sea[fn] as they were chasing you. He destroyed them, and they have not recovered to this very day!

Deu 11:5

Deu 11:5“Your children didn’t see how the LORD cared for you in the wilderness until you arrived here.

Deu 11:6

Deu 11:6They didn’t see what he did to Dathan and Abiram (the sons of Eliab, a descendant of Reuben) when the earth opened its mouth in the Israelite camp and swallowed them, along with their households and tents and every living thing that belonged to them.

Deu 11:7

Deu 11:7But you have seen the LORD perform all these mighty deeds with your own eyes!

The Blessings of Obedience

Deu 11:8

Deu 11:8“Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today, so you may have strength to go in and take over the land you are about to enter.

Deu 11:9

Deu 11:9If you obey, you will enjoy a long life in the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors and to you, their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey!

Deu 11:10

Deu 11:10For the land you are about to enter and take over is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your seed and made irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden.

Deu 11:11

Deu 11:11Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain—

Deu 11:12

Deu 11:12a land that the LORD your God cares for. He watches over it through each season of the year!

Deu 11:13

Deu 11:13“If you carefully obey all the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the LORD your God and serve him with all your heart and soul,

Deu 11:14

Deu 11:14then he will send the rains in their proper seasons—the early and late rains—so you can bring in your harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil.

Deu 11:15

Deu 11:15He will give you lush pastureland for your livestock, and you yourselves will have all you want to eat.

Deu 11:16

Deu 11:16“But be careful. Don’t let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the LORD and serve and worship other gods.

Deu 11:17

Deu 11:17If you do, the LORD’s anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the LORD is giving you.

Deu 11:18

Deu 11:18“So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders.

Deu 11:19

Deu 11:19Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.

Deu 11:20

Deu 11:20Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

Deu 11:21

Deu 11:21so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors.

Deu 11:22

Deu 11:22“Be careful to obey all these commands I am giving you. Show love to the LORD your God by walking in his ways and holding tightly to him.

Deu 11:23

Deu 11:23Then the LORD will drive out all the nations ahead of you, though they are much greater and stronger than you, and you will take over their land.

Deu 11:24

Deu 11:24Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.[fn]

Deu 11:25

Deu 11:25No one will be able to stand against you, for the LORD your God will cause the people to fear and dread you, as he promised, wherever you go in the whole land.

Deu 11:26

Deu 11:26“Look, today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse!

Deu 11:27

Deu 11:27You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today.

Deu 11:28

Deu 11:28But you will be cursed if you reject the commands of the LORD your God and turn away from him and worship gods you have not known before.

Deu 11:29

Deu 11:29“When the LORD your God brings you into the land and helps you take possession of it, you must pronounce the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.

Deu 11:30

Deu 11:30(These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley,[fn] near the town of Gilgal, not far from the oaks of Moreh.)

Deu 11:31

Deu 11:31For you are about to cross the Jordan River to take over the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you take that land and are living in it,

Deu 11:32

Deu 11:32you must be careful to obey all the decrees and regulations I am giving you today.