Deuteronomy 11 (NET)

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Deuteronomy 11:1¹You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 6:5 Deut 10:12 Luke 1:74-75 Deut 30:16-20 Deut 4:40 Deut 6:1 Lev 8:35 Zech 3:7 Deut 4:1 Deut 4:5

Deuteronomy 11:2²Bear 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 26:22 Deut 29:10 Deut 4:34 Deut 5:24 Deut 7:19 Deut 8:19 Deut 8:2-5 Deut 9:26 Prov 22:19

Deuteronomy 11:3³They did not see the awesome deeds he performed in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 7:19 Deut 4:34 Jer 32:20-21 Ps 105:27-45 Ps 135:9 Ps 78:12-13

Deuteronomy 11:4⁴or 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 14:23-31 Exod 15:19 Exod 15:9-10 Ps 106:11 Exod 15:4 Heb 11:29

Deuteronomy 11:5⁵They did not see what he did to you in the wilderness before you reached this place,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 105:39-41 Ps 106:12-48 Ps 77:20 Ps 78:14-72

Deuteronomy 11:6⁶or 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 26:9-10 Ps 106:17 Num 16:1-35 Num 27:3

Deuteronomy 11:7⁷I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw with your own eyes all the great deeds of the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 145:12 Ps 145:4-6 Ps 150:2 Deut 5:3 Deut 7:19 Ps 106:2

Deuteronomy 11:8⁸Now 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,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eph 6:10 Josh 1:6-7 Eph 3:16 Phil 4:13 2 Cor 12:9-10 Deut 31:23 Deut 8:10-11 Ps 138:3 Col 1:11 Dan 10:19

Deuteronomy 11:9⁹and 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 3:8 Deut 4:40 Deut 6:2 Ezek 20:6 Deut 5:16 Deut 9:5 Deut 6:18 Prov 10:27 Prov 3:16 Prov 3:2

Deuteronomy 11:10¹⁰For 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Zech 14:18

Deuteronomy 11:11¹¹Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 6:7 Deut 8:7-9 Ps 65:12-13 Gen 27:28 Isa 28:1 Jer 2:7 Ps 104:10-13

Deuteronomy 11:12¹²a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 24:6 Ps 33:18 1 Kgs 9:3 Ps 34:15 Ezra 5:5

Deuteronomy 11:13¹³Now, 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,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 10:12 Deut 4:29 Deut 11:8 Deut 6:17 Deut 6:5-6 Ps 119:4 Deut 11:22

Deuteronomy 11:14¹⁴then 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 5:7 Lev 26:4 Deut 28:12 Ezek 34:26 Joel 2:22-23 Jer 14:22 Job 37:11-13 Job 5:10-11 Ps 65:9-13

Deuteronomy 11:15¹⁵I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 6:11 Ps 104:14 Joel 2:19 Mal 3:10-11 Joel 2:22 Deut 8:10 Hag 1:6 Joel 1:18

Deuteronomy 11:16¹⁶Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 3:12 Job 31:27 Heb 2:1 Deut 29:18 Jas 1:26 1 John 5:21 Deut 30:17 Deut 4:23 Deut 8:19 Isa 44:20

Deuteronomy 11:17¹⁷Then 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:35 2 Chr 6:26 Amos 4:7 Deut 6:15 1 Kgs 17:1 Deut 4:26 2 Chr 7:13 Deut 28:23-24 Deut 30:17-18 Deut 8:19-20

Deuteronomy 11:18¹⁸Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, tie them as a reminder on your hands, and let them be symbols on your forehead.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Col 3:16 Deut 6:6-9 Prov 3:1 2 Pet 3:1-2 Ps 119:11 Exod 13:9 Prov 6:20-23 2 Pet 1:12 Deut 32:46 Exod 13:16

Deuteronomy 11:19¹⁹Teach 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 6:7 Deut 4:9-10 Isa 38:19 Ps 34:11 Prov 2:1 Prov 4:1-27 Ps 78:5-6

Deuteronomy 11:20²⁰Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gatesCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 6:9

Deuteronomy 11:21²¹so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land that the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 3:2 Prov 4:10 Prov 9:11 Deut 4:40 Ps 72:5 Ps 89:28-29 Deut 5:16 Deut 6:2 Isa 65:20 Prov 3:16

Deuteronomy 11:22²²For 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,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 11:13 Deut 6:17 Deut 10:20 2 Cor 11:2-3 2 Tim 4:8 Acts 11:23 Deut 30:20 Gen 2:24 1 John 5:2-3 Matt 22:37

Deuteronomy 11:23²³then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 4:38 Deut 9:1 Deut 7:1-2 Deut 7:22-23 Deut 9:5 Exod 23:27-30 Exod 34:11

Deuteronomy 11:24²⁴Every 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 14:9 Exod 23:31 Gen 15:18-21 1 Kgs 4:21 2 Chr 9:26 1 Kgs 4:24 Josh 1:3-4 Num 34:3-15

Deuteronomy 11:25²⁵Nobody 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 7:24 Exod 23:27 Josh 1:5 Deut 2:25 Josh 5:1 Josh 2:9

Deuteronomy 11:26²⁶Take note—I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 30:1 Deut 30:15-20 Gal 3:10 Gal 3:13-14

Deuteronomy 11:27²⁷the blessing if you take to heart the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 1:19 Deut 28:1-14 Isa 3:10 Luke 11:28 Lev 26:3-13 John 13:17 John 14:21-23 Ps 19:11 Rom 2:7 Jas 1:25

Deuteronomy 11:28²⁸and 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 28:15-68 Gal 3:10 Rom 2:8-9 Deut 29:19-28 Isa 1:20 Isa 3:11 Lev 26:14-32 Matt 25:41

Deuteronomy 11:29²⁹When 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 27:12-26 Josh 8:30-35

Deuteronomy 11:30³⁰Are they not across the Jordan River, toward the west, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the rift valley opposite Gilgal near the oak of Moreh?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 12:6 Judg 7:1 Josh 4:19 Josh 5:9

Deuteronomy 11:31³¹For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 1:11 Deut 9:1 Josh 3:13-17

Deuteronomy 11:32³²Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:32 Matt 28:20 1 Thess 4:1-2 Deut 5:32-33 John 15:14 Luke 1:6 Matt 7:21-27 Ps 119:6

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