It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
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It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
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And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
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And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto My commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 11:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 4:29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 10:12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 6:5-6 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
- Deuteronomy 6:17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 11:8 Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess;
- Psalms 119:4 You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
- Deuteronomy 11:22 For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if…
Deu 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Ver. 13. And it shall come to pass.] This passage of Scripture following, the Jews read daily in their families, as Maimonides reporteth.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not…
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived,.... By observing the influence of the heavens upon the fruitfulness of the earth, and so be drawn to the worship of the host of them, the sun, moon, and stars; or by the examples of nations round about them; and by the plausible arguments they may make use of, taken from the traditions of ancestors, from antiquity, and the consent of nations, and the great numbers of worshippers, and the like:
and ye turn aside; from the true God, and the worship of him; or from the law, as Jarchi, which directs to the worship of one God, and forbids idolatry, or the worshipping of images:
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and serve other gods, and worship them; other gods than the one only living and true God; gods that made not the heavens and the earth, and which cannot give rain, nor any blessing and mercy of life, nor help and deliver their worshippers when in distress.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 13. Hearken — Jehovah is now speaking. The passage,…
13. Hearken — Jehovah is now speaking. The passage, 13-21, is one of the four that the Jews placed in their phylacteries.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. The verse is not only in the Pl.…
13. The verse is not only in the Pl. and a repetition of certain formulas, but it also changes the speaker (my commandments can only mean God’s). It is evidently inserted by an editor (so too Steuern. and Bertholet) (who also altered the opening of the next verse, q.v.) because he thought it again necessary to safeguard the promise by repeating the usual deuteronomic condition. But the condition breaks into the theme of the writer which for the moment is only the contrast between the two lands. On the contents of the v. see on Deu_10:12.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (13) It shall come to pass.—At this point begins…
(13) It shall come to pass.—At this point begins the formal sanction of this charge by a declaration of rewards and punishments. Such sanctions are a characteristic feature of the Law. (Comp. Exo_23:20—end, at the close of the first code; Leviticus 26, and Deuteronomy 28; and, in the New Testament, the well-known close of the Sermon on the Mount in St. Matthew 7, and of the parallel sermon in St. Luke 6 )
To love the Lord your God.—“Not that thou shouldst say, ‘Behold, I am a disciple in order that I may become rich: in order that I may be called great: in order that I may receive reward; “but whatsoever ye do, do from love” (Rashi).
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To serve him with all your heart.—The Jewish commentator says that this refers to prayer, and compares Daniel (Deu_6:16): “Thy God whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee.” There was no religious service for Israel in Babylon except prayer. The thought seems worth preserving, though the words are obviously capable of a wider application.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Being thus wholly dependent on God, it behooved them…
Being thus wholly dependent on God, it behooved them to be careful to attend to his commandments and to obey them, that so his blessing might be continued to them and to the laud. If they would love and serve the Lord as they were bound to do, he would give them the rain of their land, i.e. rain for their land, such as it required (cf. "rain of thy seed,", Psa_30:2, Psa_30:3) in the proper season, the early and the latter rain, so that they should fully enjoy the benefits of the land.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 It will happen, if
It will happen, if
This means that what Yahweh promises will happen if the Israelites obey his commands.
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that I command
Here "I" refers to Moses.
with all your heart and with all your soul
The idiom "with all your heart" means "completely" and "with ... soul" means "with all your being." These two phrases have similar meanings. See how you translated this in Deuteronomy 4:29. AT: "with all your being" or "with all your energy" (See: Idiom and Doublet)
I will give the rain of your land in its season
"I will cause it to rain on your land in the proper season"
I will give
Here "I" refers to Yahweh. This can be stated in the third person. AT: "Yahweh will give" or "He will give"
the former rain and the latter rain
This refers to rain at the beginning of the sowing season and rain for maturing the crops for harvest. AT: "the autumn rain and spring rain" or "the rain in the right seasons"
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love
Yahweh
God
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heart
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grain
wine
oil
cow
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