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serve other gods and worship them, lest the God, but turn aside from the way which I
LORD’s anger be aroused against you, and He command you today, to go after other gods
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shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, which you have not known. Now it shall be,
and the land yield no produce, and you perish when the LORD your God has brought you into
quickly from the good land which the LORD is the land which you go to possess, that you
giving you. shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and
18 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of the curse on Mount Ebal. Are they not on the
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mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind other side of the Jordan, toward the setting
them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in
as frontlets between your eyes. You shall the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth
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teach them to your children, speaking of them trees of Moreh? For you will cross over the
when you sit in your house, when you walk by Jordan and go in to possess the land which the
the way, when you lie down, and when you LORD your God is giving you, and you will pos-
rise up. And you shall write them on the sess it and dwell in it. And you shall be care-
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doorposts of your house and on your gates, ful to observe all the statutes and judgments
21 that your days and the days of your children which I set before you today.
may be multiplied in the land of which the “These are the statutes and judgments
LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like 12 which you shall be careful to observe in
the days of the heavens above the earth. the land which the LORD God of your fathers is
22 “For if you carefully keep all these com- giving you to possess, all the days that you live
mandments which I command you to do—to on the earth. You shall utterly destroy all the
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love the LORD your God, to walk in all His places where the nations which you shall
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ways, and to hold fast to Him— then the dispossess served their gods, on the high
LORD will drive out all these nations from mountains and on the hills and under every
before you, and you will dispossess greater green tree. And you shall destroy their altars,
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and mightier nations than yourselves. Every break their sacred pillars, and burn their
place on which the sole of your foot treads wooden images with fire; you shall cut down
shall be yours: from the wilderness and Leba- the carved images of their gods and destroy
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non, from the river, the River Euphrates, even their names from that place. You shall not
to the Western Sea, shall be your territory. worship the LORD your God with such things.
5 “But you shall seek the place where the
LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes,
to put His name for His dwelling place; and
there you shall go. There you shall take your
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11:24 Every place…your foot treads. In burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes,
response to the obedience of Israel (vv.22,23), the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed
the Lord promised to give to Israel all of the
land they personally traversed to the extent of offerings, your freewill offerings, and the first-
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the boundaries that He had given. This same born of your herds and flocks. And there you
promise was repeated in Joshua 1:3–5. Had shall eat before the LORD your God, and you
Israel obeyed God faithfully, her boundaries shall rejoice in all to which you have put your
would have been enlarged to fulfill the prom- hand, you and your households, in which the
ise made to Abraham (Gen. 15:18). But LORD your God has blessed you.
because of Israel’s disobedience,the complete 8 “You shall not at all do as we are doing here
promise of the whole land still remains, to be today—every man doing whatever is right in
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fulfilled in the future kingdom of the Messiah his own eyes— for as yet you have not come
(Ezek. 36:8–38). to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD
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your God is giving you. But when you cross
over the Jordan and dwell in the land which
the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and
25 No man shall be able to stand against you; He gives you rest from all your enemies round
the LORD your God will put the dread of you about, so that you dwell in safety, then there
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and the fear of you upon all the land where will be the place where the LORD your God
you tread, just as He has said to you. chooses to make His name abide. There you
26 “Behold, I set before you today a blessing shall bring all that I command you: your burnt
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and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the
commandments of the LORD your God which I heave offerings of your hand, and all your
command you today; and the curse, if you do choice offerings which you vow to the LORD.
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not obey the commandments of the LORD your 12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your
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