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    Deuteronomy 11

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    The earth opens its mouth and swallows Dathan, Abiram, their households, their tents, and every living thing belonging to them—a remarkably thorough appetite in the middle of a speech about remembering.

    What their own eyes sawvv. 1–7

    The speech begins with love, obedience, and a distinction between generations: the children have not seen what their parents saw. Egypt supplies the first great scene, where Pharaoh’s army, horses, and chariots are engulfed by the Red Sea. Then comes the wilderness, and then the earth’s extraordinary meal of Dathan and Abiram. The point is not left to family storytelling; the hearers’ own eyes, the speech insists, have seen the great works.

    A land that drinks from heavenvv. 8–25

    The Jordan is crossed towards a land unlike Egypt. Egypt is pictured as a vegetable garden requiring irrigation on foot, while the new land is made of mountains and valleys and drinks rain from heaven. Its produce arrives with the rains: grain, new wine, oil, and grass for livestock. The words themselves are given an impressively physical wardrobe—fixed in heart and mind, tied to hands, bound to foreheads, spoken at home and on the road, and written on doorposts and gates. The promised territory then stretches from the wilderness to Lebanon and from the Euphrates to the Western Sea.

    Two mountains, two announcementsvv. 26–32

    At the end, the speech sets out two things rather than one: a blessing and a curse. When the land has been entered, the blessing is to be proclaimed on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. The landmarks gather quickly—across the Jordan, west of the road towards sunset, among the Canaanites in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh. Then the Jordan is still to be crossed, the land still to be possessed, and the statutes and ordinances still to be followed.

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    1. Deut 11:1You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

    2. Deut 11:2Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;

    3. Deut 11:3the signs and works He did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;

    4. Deut 11:4what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;

    5. Deut 11:5what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place;

    6. Deut 11:6and what He did in the midst of all the Israelites to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that belonged to them.

    7. Deut 11:7For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.

    8. Deut 11:8You shall therefore keep every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,

    9. Deut 11:9and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

    10. Deut 11:10For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.

    11. Deut 11:11But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.

    12. Deut 11:12It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.

    13. Deut 11:13So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

    14. Deut 11:14then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.

    15. Deut 11:15And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.

    16. Deut 11:16But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

    17. Deut 11:17or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.

    18. Deut 11:18Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

    19. Deut 11:19Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

    20. Deut 11:20Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,

    21. Deut 11:21so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

    22. Deut 11:22For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

    23. Deut 11:23then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

    24. Deut 11:24Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.

    25. Deut 11:25No man will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you.

    26. Deut 11:26See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—

    27. Deut 11:27a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,

    28. Deut 11:28but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

    29. Deut 11:29When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

    30. Deut 11:30Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh?

    31. Deut 11:31For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,

    32. Deut 11:32be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.

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    • 27Isaiah 1:19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
    • 27Deuteronomy 28:1–14“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
    • 27Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
    • 27Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
    • 27Leviticus 26:3–13If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
    • 27John 13:17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
    • 27John 14:21–23Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
    • 27Psalms 19:11By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.
    • 27Romans 2:7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
    • 27James 1:25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
    • 27Revelation 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
    • 27Matthew 5:3–12“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
    • 12Jeremiah 24:6I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.
    • 18Deuteronomy 6:6–9These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
    • 18Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
    • 11Hebrews 6:7For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.

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