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11 “And you shall love Yahweh your God, and you shall keep his obligations and his statutes and his regulations and his commandments always.[a] And you shall realize today[b] that it is not with your children who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of Yahweh your God—his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm, and his signs and his deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all of his land, and what he did to the army of Egypt and to their horses and to their chariots, and how he made the water of the Red Sea[c] flow over them, when they pursued after them,[d] and so Yahweh has destroyed them, as is the case today,[e] and what he did to you in the desert until you came up to this place, and what he did to Dathan and to Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth wide and swallowed them, their households and their tents, and all of the living creatures[f] that were in their possession and that were following along with them[g] in the midst of all of Israel. The fact of the matter is, your own eyes have seen[h] all of the great deeds[i] of Yahweh that he did.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:1 Literally “all of the days”
  2. Deuteronomy 11:2 Literally “the day”
  3. Deuteronomy 11:4 Literally “sea of reed”
  4. Deuteronomy 11:4 Literally “in/at their pursuing after them”
  5. Deuteronomy 11:4 Literally “until the day the this”
  6. Deuteronomy 11:6 Hebrew “creature”
  7. Deuteronomy 11:6 Literally “in their feet” = “living things traveling along with them”
  8. Deuteronomy 11:7 Literally “your eyes that are seeing”
  9. Deuteronomy 11:7 Hebrew “deed”

Rewards for Obedience

11 “You shall love the Lord your God, therefore, and keep his charge, his decrees, his ordinances, and his commandments always.(A) Remember today that it was not your children (who have not known or seen the discipline of the Lord your God), but it is you who must acknowledge his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,(B) his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all his land; what he did to the Egyptian army, to their horses and chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea[a] flow over them as they pursued you, so that the Lord has destroyed them to this day;(C) what he did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place; and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, how in the midst of all Israel the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households, their tents, and every living being in their company;(D) for it is your own eyes that have seen every great deed that the Lord did.

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Footnotes

  1. 11.4 Or Sea of Reeds