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<span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/11-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>For you are about to cross the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God is giving you, and you shall possess it and live in it, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/11-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/deuteronomy/11.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/deuteronomy/11.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and a curse: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/deuteronomy/11.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />See, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/deuteronomy/11.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/deuteronomy/11.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/deuteronomy/11.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/deuteronomy/11.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'See, I am setting before you to-day a blessing and a reviling:<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/canaan_on_earth.htm">Canaan on Earth</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Many of you, my dear hearers, are really come out of Egypt; but you are still wandering about in the wilderness. "We that have believed do enter into rest;" but you, though you have eaten of Jesus, have not so believed on him as to have entered into the Canaan of rest. You are the Lord's people, but you have not come into the Canaan of assured faith, confidence, and hope, where we wrestle no longer with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus--when <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/canaan_on_earth.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 2: 1856</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/the_gospel_of_the_pentateuch/sermon_xvii_the_god_of.htm">The God of the Rain</a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Fifth Sunday after Easter.) DEUT. xi. 11, 12. The land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven. A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year, even unto the end of the year. I told you, when I spoke of the earthquakes of the Holy Land, that it seems as if God had meant specially to train that strange people the Jews, by putting them into a country where they <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/the_gospel_of_the_pentateuch/sermon_xvii_the_god_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">The Gospel of the Pentateuch</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_88_gilgal_in_deuteronomy.htm">Gilgal, in Deuteronomy 11:30 what the Place Was. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">That which is said by Moses, that "Gerizim and Ebal were over-against Gilgal," Deuteronomy 11:30, is so obscure, that it is rendered into contrary significations by interpreters. Some take it in that sense, as if it were near to Gilgal: some far off from Gilgal: the Targumists read, "before Gilgal": while, as I think, they do not touch the difficulty; which lies not so much in the signification of the word Mul, as in the ambiguity of the word Gilgal. These do all seem to understand that Gilgal which <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_88_gilgal_in_deuteronomy.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Lightfoot—</span><span class="citation2">From the Talmud and Hebraica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_vii_josiah_a_pattern.htm">Josiah, a Pattern for the Ignorant. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord. Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place."--2 Kings <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newman/parochial_and_plain_sermons_vol_viii/sermon_vii_josiah_a_pattern.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Newman—</span><span class="citation2">Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_blessings_of_noah_upon.htm">The Blessings of Noah Upon Shem and Japheth. (Gen. Ix. 18-27. )</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Ver. 20. "And Noah began and became an husbandman, and planted vineyards."--This does not imply that Noah was the first who began to till the ground, and, more especially, to cultivate the vine; for Cain, too, was a tiller of the ground, Gen. iv. 2. The sense rather is, that Noah, after the flood, again took up this calling. Moreover, the remark has not an independent import; it serves only to prepare the way for the communication of the subsequent account of Noah's drunkenness. By this remark, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_blessings_of_noah_upon.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_8_subjects_of_study.htm">Subjects of Study. Home Education in Israel; Female Education. Elementary Schools, Schoolmasters, and School Arrangements. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">If a faithful picture of society in ancient Greece or Rome were to be presented to view, it is not easy to believe that even they who now most oppose the Bible could wish their aims success. For this, at any rate, may be asserted, without fear of gainsaying, that no other religion than that of the Bible has proved competent to control an advanced, or even an advancing, state of civilisation. Every other bound has been successively passed and submerged by the rising tide; how deep only the student <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_8_subjects_of_study.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Jewish Social Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/chapter_xi_in_the_fifteenth.htm">In the Fifteenth Year of Tiberius Cæsar and under the Pontificate of Annas and Caiaphas - a Voice in the Wilderness</a><br></span><span class="snippet">THERE is something grand, even awful, in the almost absolute silence which lies upon the thirty years between the Birth and the first Messianic Manifestation of Jesus. In a narrative like that of the Gospels, this must have been designed; and, if so, affords presumptive evidence of the authenticity of what follows, and is intended to teach, that what had preceded concerned only the inner History of Jesus, and the preparation of the Christ. At last that solemn silence was broken by an appearance, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/chapter_xi_in_the_fifteenth.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_10_the_voice_of.htm">The Voice of Stern Rebuke</a><br></span><span class="snippet">[This chapter is based on 1 Kings 17:8-24; 28:1-19.] For a time Elijah remained hidden in the mountains by the brook Cherith. There for many months he was miraculously provided with food. Later on, when, because of the continued drought, the brook became dry, God bade His servant find refuge in a heathen land. "Arise," He bade him, "get thee to Zarephath, [known in New Testament times as Sarepta], which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee." <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_10_the_voice_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_17_the_worship_of.htm">The Worship of the Synagogue</a><br></span><span class="snippet">One of the most difficult questions in Jewish history is that connected with the existence of a synagogue within the Temple. That such a "synagogue" existed, and that its meeting-place was in "the hall of hewn stones," at the south-eastern angle of the court of the priest, cannot be called in question, in face of the clear testimony of contemporary witnesses. Considering that "the hall of hew stones" was also the meeting-place for the great Sanhedrim, and that not only legal decisions, but lectures <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_17_the_worship_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Jewish Social Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_13_among_the_people.htm">Among the People, and with the Pharisees</a><br></span><span class="snippet">It would have been difficult to proceed far either in Galilee or in Judaea without coming into contact with an altogether peculiar and striking individuality, differing from all around, and which would at once arrest attention. This was the Pharisee. Courted or feared, shunned or flattered, reverently looked up to or laughed at, he was equally a power everywhere, both ecclesiastically and politically, as belonging to the most influential, the most zealous, and the most closely-connected religions <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_13_among_the_people.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Jewish Social Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_v_covenanting_confers_obligation.htm">Covenanting Confers Obligation. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">As it has been shown that all duty, and that alone, ought to be vowed to God in covenant, it is manifest that what is lawfully engaged to in swearing by the name of God is enjoined in the moral law, and, because of the authority of that law, ought to be performed as a duty. But it is now to be proved that what is promised to God by vow or oath, ought to be performed also because of the act of Covenanting. The performance of that exercise is commanded, and the same law which enjoins that the duties <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_v_covenanting_confers_obligation.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Cunningham—</span><span class="citation2">The Ordinance of Covenanting</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/11-26.htm">Deuteronomy 11:26 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/11-26.htm">Deuteronomy 11:26 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/deuteronomy/11-26.htm">Deuteronomy 11:26 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/11-26.htm">Deuteronomy 11:26 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/11-26.htm">Deuteronomy 11:26 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/deuteronomy/11-26.htm">Deuteronomy 11:26 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/deuteronomy/11-26.htm">Deuteronomy 11:26 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/11-25.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Deuteronomy 11:25"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 11:25" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../deuteronomy/11-27.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Deuteronomy 11:27"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 11:27" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/deuteronomy/11-26.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>