Deuteronomy 11
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Deuteronomy 11
Rewards for Obedience
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Deut 10.12; Zech 3.7 “You shall love the Lord your God, therefore, and keep his charge, his decrees, his ordinances, and his commandments always. 2#Deut 5.24; 8.5Remember today that it was not your children (who have not known or seen the discipline of the Lord your God), but it is you who must acknowledge his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, 3his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all his land; 4#Ex 14.27, 28what he did to the Egyptian army, to their horses and chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea#11.4 Or Sea of Reeds flow over them as they pursued you, so that the Lord has destroyed them to this day; 5what he did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place; 6#Num 16.31–33and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, how in the midst of all Israel the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households, their tents, and every living being in their company; 7for it is your own eyes that have seen every great deed that the Lord did.
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Josh 1.6, 7 “Keep, then, the entire commandment that I am commanding you today, so that you may have strength to go in and occupy the land that you are crossing over to occupy 9#Ex 3.8; Deut 4.40; 9.5and so that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10For the land that you are about to enter to occupy is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sow your seed and irrigate by foot like a vegetable garden. 11#Deut 8.7But the land that you are crossing over to occupy is a land of hills and valleys watered by rain from the sky, 12a land that the Lord your God looks after. The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
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; Deut 6.17; 10.12“If you will only heed his every commandment#11.13 Compare Gk: Heb my commandments that I am commanding you today—loving the Lord your God and serving him with all your heart and with all your soul— 14#Deut 28.12; Joel 2.23then he#11.14 Sam Gk Vg: MT I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil, 15#Deut 6.11and he#11.15 Sam Gk Vg: MT I will give grass in your field for your livestock, and you will eat your fill. 16#Deut 8.19; 29.18Take care, or you will be seduced into turning away, serving other gods and worshiping them, 17#Deut 4.26; 6.15; 1 Kings 8.35for then 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 not yield its produce; then you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
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Deut 6.6, 8 “You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and fix them as an emblem on your forehead. 19#Deut 4.9, 10; 6.7Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise up. 20#Deut 6.9Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
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Deut 6.17; 10.20 “If you will diligently observe this entire commandment that I am commanding you, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, 23#Deut 9.1, 5then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and mightier than you. 24#Gen 15.18; Ex 23.31; Josh 1.3Every place on which you set foot shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the River Euphrates, to the Western Sea. 25#Ex 23.27; Deut 7.24No one will be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will put the fear and dread of you on all the land on which you set foot, as he promised you.
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Deut 30.1, 19 “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 27#Deut 28.3the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today; 28#Deut 28.15and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God but turn from the way that I am commanding you today, to follow other gods that you have not known.
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Deut 27.12; Josh 8.33 “When the Lord your God has brought you into the land that you are entering to occupy, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. 30#Gen 12.6; Josh 4.19As you know, they are beyond the Jordan, some distance to the west, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak#11.30 Gk Syr: Heb oaks or terebinths of Moreh.
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Deut 9.1; Josh 1.11 “When you cross the Jordan to go in to occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you and when you occupy it and live in it, 32you must diligently observe all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.
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