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Text -- Deuteronomy 11:1-23 (NET)
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Reiteration of the Call to Obedience
11:1 You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires ; keep his statutes , ordinances , and commandments at all times .
11:2 Bear in mind today that I am not speaking to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments of the Lord your God , which revealed his greatness , strength , and power .
11:3 They did not see the awesome deeds he performed in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land ,
11:4 or what he did to the army of Egypt , including their horses and chariots , when he made the waters of the Red Sea overwhelm them while they were pursuing you and he annihilated them.
11:5 They did not see what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place ,
11:6 or what he did to Dathan and Abiram , sons of Eliab the Reubenite , when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp and swallowed them, their families , their tents , and all the property they brought with them.
11:7 I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the Lord !
The Abundance of the Land of Promise
11:8 Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today , so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed ,
11:9 and that you may enjoy long life in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants , a land flowing with milk and honey .
11:10 For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came , a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden .
11:11 Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys , a land that drinks in water from the rains ,
11:12 a land the Lord your God looks after . He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year .
11:13 Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being ,
11:14 then he promises, “I will send rain for your land in its season , the autumn and the spring rains , so that you may gather in your grain , new wine , and olive oil .
11:15 I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill .”
Exhortation to Instruction and Obedience
11:16 Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods !
11:17 Then the anger of the Lord will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain . The land will not yield its produce , and you will soon be removed from the good land that the Lord is about to give you.
11:18 Fix these words of mine into your mind and being , and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead .
11:19 Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house , as you walk along the road , as you lie down , and as you get up .
11:20 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates
11:21 so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors , like the days of heaven itself.
11:22 For if you carefully observe all of these commandments I am giving you and love the Lord your God , live according to his standards , and remain loyal to him,
11:23 then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Moses |
Obligation |
Obedience |
Door |
SYNAGOGUE |
Door-posts |
WORSHIP |
Reward |
Chastisement |
Miracles |
God |
AGRICULTURE |
Rain |
Frontlets |
Dathan |
Instruction |
Blessing |
Word of God |
Law |
Eliab |
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NET Notes -> Deu 11:1; Deu 11:2; Deu 11:2; Deu 11:2; Deu 11:2; Deu 11:3; Deu 11:3; Deu 11:4; Deu 11:4; Deu 11:4; Deu 11:5; Deu 11:6; Deu 11:6; Deu 11:6; Deu 11:6; Deu 11:6; Deu 11:7; Deu 11:8; Deu 11:8; Deu 11:8; Deu 11:9; Deu 11:10; Deu 11:10; Deu 11:11; Deu 11:11; Deu 11:12; Deu 11:12; Deu 11:12; Deu 11:12; Deu 11:13; Deu 11:13; Deu 11:13; Deu 11:14; Deu 11:14; Deu 11:14; Deu 11:15; Deu 11:16; Deu 11:17; Deu 11:17; Deu 11:17; Deu 11:17; Deu 11:18; Deu 11:18; Deu 11:19; Deu 11:21; Deu 11:22; Deu 11:22; Deu 11:22; Deu 11:23
NET Notes: Deu 11:1 This collocation of technical terms for elements of the covenant text lends support to its importance and also signals a new section of paraenesis in ...
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NET Notes: Deu 11:3 Heb “his signs and his deeds which he did” (NRSV similar). The collocation of “signs” and “deeds” indicates that t...
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NET Notes: Deu 11:4 Heb “and the Lord destroyed them to this day” (cf. NRSV); NLT “he has kept them devastated to this very day.” The translation ...
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NET Notes: Deu 11:7 On the addition of these words in the translation see note on “They did not see” in v. 3.
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NET Notes: Deu 11:10 Heb “with your foot” (so NASB, NLT). There is a two-fold significance to this phrase. First, Egypt had no rain so water supply depended on...
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NET Notes: Deu 11:12 From the beginning to the end of the year. This refers to the agricultural year that was marked by the onset of the heavy rains, thus the autumn. See ...
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NET Notes: Deu 11:13 Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.
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NET Notes: Deu 11:14 The autumn and the spring rains. The “former” (יוֹרֶה, yoreh) and “latter” (מַ...
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NET Notes: Deu 11:16 Heb “Watch yourselves lest your heart turns and you turn aside and serve other gods and bow down to them.”
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NET Notes: Deu 11:19 Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”
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