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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Deuteronomy 11 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/deuteronomy/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Deuteronomy 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/10.htm" title="Deuteronomy 10">◄</a> Deuteronomy 11 <a href="../deuteronomy/12.htm" title="Deuteronomy 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/deuteronomy/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“You must love the LORD your God and always obey his requirements, decrees, regulations, and commands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Keep in mind that I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of the LORD your God or seen his greatness and his strong hand and powerful arm. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They didn’t see the miraculous signs and wonders he performed in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They didn’t see what the LORD did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses and chariots—how he drowned them in the Red Sea<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> as they were chasing you. He destroyed them, and they have not recovered to this very day!</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Your children didn’t see how the LORD cared for you in the wilderness until you arrived here. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They didn’t see what he did to Dathan and Abiram (the sons of Eliab, a descendant of Reuben) when the earth opened its mouth in the Israelite camp and swallowed them, along with their households and tents and every living thing that belonged to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But you have seen the LORD perform all these mighty deeds with your own eyes!</p><p class="hdg">The Blessings of Obedience</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today, so you may have strength to go in and take over the land you are about to enter. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If you obey, you will enjoy a long life in the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors and to you, their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the land you are about to enter and take over is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your seed and made irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>a land that the LORD your God cares for. He watches over it through each season of the year!</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“If you carefully obey the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the LORD your God and serve him with all your heart and soul, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>then he will send the rains in their proper seasons—the early and late rains—so you can bring in your harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He will give you lush pastureland for your livestock, and you yourselves will have all you want to eat.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“But be careful. Don’t let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the LORD and serve and worship other gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>If you do, the LORD’s anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the LORD is giving you.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Be careful to obey all these commands I am giving you. Show love to the LORD your God by walking in his ways and holding tightly to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then the LORD will drive out all the nations ahead of you, though they are much greater and stronger than you, and you will take over their land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>No one will be able to stand against you, for the LORD your God will cause the people to fear and dread you, as he promised, wherever you go in the whole land.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“Look, today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But you will be cursed if you reject the commands of the LORD your God and turn away from him and worship gods you have not known before.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“When the LORD your God brings you into the land and helps you take possession of it, you must pronounce the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>(These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> near the town of Gilgal, not far from the oaks of Moreh.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For you are about to cross the Jordan River to take over the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you take that land and are living in it, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/11-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>you must be careful to obey all the decrees and regulations I am giving you today.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:4 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">sea of reeds.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:24 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">to the western sea.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">11:30 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the Arabah.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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