Deuteronomy
Chapter 11
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1You shall love God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God and keep his charge, his Rules that are meant to last., his rules, and his commands, all the days.
2Know today that it was not your children, who have not known and have not seen the discipline of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm,
3and his signs and his deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to all his land,
4and what he did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and its chariots, how he made the water of the Sea of Reeds flow over them as they chased after you, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. destroyed them to this day,
5and what he did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place,
6and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that was at their feet, in the midst of all Israel.
7For your eyes have seen every great deed of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. that he has done.
8You shall keep the whole command that I am commanding you today, so that you are strong, and go in and take possession of the land you are crossing into to take possession of it,
9and so that you lengthen your days on the soil that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. swore to your fathers to give them and their seed, a land oozing milk and honey.
10For the land you are going into to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, which you came out of, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a garden of greens.
11The land you are crossing into to take possession of it is a land of hills and valleys. It drinks water from the rain of the sky.
12It is a land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God looks after. The eyes of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
13If you listen, listen to my commands that I am commanding you today, to love God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your life,
14I will give the rain of your land in its time, the early rain and the later rain, and you shall gather your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
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Yoreh is the early rain. Malqosh is the later rain. The two seasons are both printed.
15I will give grass in your field for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
16Keep yourselves, or your heart will be deceived, and you will turn aside and serve other gods and bow to them,
17and the anger of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will burn against you, and he will shut the sky so that there is no rain, and the ground will not give its yield, and you will perish quickly from the good land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. is giving you.
18You shall set these words of mine on your heart and on your life, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be bands between your eyes.
19You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
20You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21so that your days and the days of your children are many on the soil that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. swore to your fathers to give them, as many as the days of the sky over the earth.
22For if you keep, keep this whole command that I am commanding you to do, to love God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, to walk in all his ways, and to hold fast to him,
23God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will dispossess all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
24Every place the sole of your foot treads shall be yours, from the wilderness and the Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea. That shall be your border.
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Ha-yam ha-acharon is the sea behind, the west. The Great Sea of Numbers 34 is that western border. The name is not changed to a later sea name.
25No man shall stand before you. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you on the face of all the land you tread, as he spoke to you.
26See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse.
27The blessing, if you listen to the commands of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God that I am commanding you today.
28And the curse, if you do not listen to the commands of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and you turn aside from the way I am commanding you today, to walk after other gods that you have not known.
29When God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God brings you into the land you are going to, to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
30Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanite who lives in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
31For you are crossing the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you, and you shall take possession of it and live in it.
32You shall keep to do all the Rules that are meant to last. and the rules that I am setting before you today.