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Text -- Deuteronomy 11:1-29 (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. 11:24 Every place you set your foot will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River (that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea. 11:25 Nobody will be able to resist you; the Lord your God will spread the fear and terror of you over the whole land on which you walk, just as he promised you.
Anticipation of a Blessing and Cursing Ceremony
11:26 Take note– I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 11:27 the blessing if you take to heart the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today, 11:28 and the curse if you pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known. 11:29 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are to possess, you must pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Abiram son of Eliab (Reuben); a rebel against Moses,son of Hiel, who died when his father began rebuilding Jericho
 · Dathan a man who was a son of Eliab of Reuben
 · Ebal son of Shobal son of Seir,a mountain north of Mt. Gerizim overlooking Shechem,son of Joktan, grandson of Shem
 · Egypt descendants of Mizraim
 · Eliab son of Helon; Moses' officer over the tribe of Zebulun,son of Pallu of Reuben; father of Dathan and Abiram,son of Jesse; brother of David,a Levite worship leader in David's time,a Gadite officer of Saul's who defected to David,son of Nahath/Toah/Tohu of Levi; Samuel's great grandfather
 · Euphrates a large river which joins the Tigris river before flowing into the Persian Gulf,a river flowing from eastern Turkey to the Persian Gulf
 · Gerizim a mountain just south of Mount Ebal overlooking Shechem
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Lebanon a mountain range and the adjoining regions (IBD)
 · Pharaoh the king who ruled Egypt when Moses was born,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in Abraham's time,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in Joseph's time,the title of the king who ruled Egypt when Moses was born,the title of the king who refused to let Israel leave Egypt,the title of the king of Egypt whose daughter Solomon married,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in the time of Isaiah,the title Egypt's ruler just before Moses' time
 · Red Sea the ocean between Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula,the sea between Egypt and Arabia
 · Reuben the tribe of Reuben
 · Western Sea the Mediterranean Sea, which formed the western border of Israel
 · western sea the Mediterranean Sea, which formed the western border of Israel


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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 ...

NET Notes: Deu 11:2 Heb “his strong hand and his stretched-out arm.”

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...

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 ...

NET Notes: Deu 11:5 See note on these same words in v. 3.

NET Notes: Deu 11:6 Heb “and all the substance which was at their feet.”

NET Notes: Deu 11:7 On the addition of these words in the translation see note on “They did not see” in v. 3.

NET Notes: Deu 11:8 Heb “which you are crossing over there to possess it.”

NET Notes: Deu 11:9 Heb “fathers” (also in v. 21).

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...

NET Notes: Deu 11:11 Heb “rain of heaven.”

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 ...

NET Notes: Deu 11:13 Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

NET Notes: Deu 11:14 The autumn and the spring rains. The “former” (יוֹרֶה, yoreh) and “latter” (מַ...

NET Notes: Deu 11:15 Heb “grass in your field.”

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.”

NET Notes: Deu 11:17 Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 11:4.

NET Notes: Deu 11:18 On the Hebrew term טוֹטָפֹת (totafot, “reminders”), cf. Deut 6:4-9.

NET Notes: Deu 11:19 Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”

NET Notes: Deu 11:21 Heb “like the days of the heavens upon the earth,” that is, forever.

NET Notes: Deu 11:22 Heb “walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV); TEV “do everything he commands.”

NET Notes: Deu 11:23 Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

NET Notes: Deu 11:24 Heb “the after sea,” that is, the sea behind one when one is facing east, which is the normal OT orientation. Cf. ASV “the hinder se...

NET Notes: Deu 11:26 A blessing and a curse. Every extant treaty text of the late Bronze Age attests to a section known as the “blessings and curses,” the form...

NET Notes: Deu 11:27 Heb “listen to,” that is, obey.

NET Notes: Deu 11:28 Heb “walk after”; NIV “by following”; NLT “by worshiping.” This is a violation of the first commandment, the most ...

NET Notes: Deu 11:29 Mount Gerizim…Mount Ebal. These two mountains are near the ancient site of Shechem and the modern city of Nablus. The valley between them is lik...

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