Loading…

Deuteronomy 6:10–9:29

10 “And then it will happen that when Yahweh your God will bring you to the land that he swore to your ancestors,n to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to you large and fine cities that you did not build, 11 and houses full of all sorts of good thingso that you did not fill, and hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant, and you have eaten your fill,p 12 then take care for yourself, so that you do not forget Yahweh, who brought you out from the land of Egypt from the house of slavery.

13 “You shall fear Yahweh your God, and you shall serve him, and by his name you shall swear. 14 You shall not go after other gods from the gods of the peoples who are all around you, 15 for Yahweh your God is a jealous god in your midst, so that the anger of Yahweh your God would be kindled,q and he would destroy you from the face of the earth. 16 You shall not put Yahweh your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. 17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and his legal provisions and his rules that he has commanded you. 18 And you shall do what is right and good in the eyes of Yahweh, so that it shall go wellr for you and so that you may go and you may take possession of the good land that Yahweh swore for your ancestors,s 19 by driving out all of your enemies before you,t just as Yahweh has promised.u

20 “When your childv asks you in the future, saying,w ‘What is the meaning of the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Yahweh our God commanded for you?’ 21 Then you shall say to your child,x ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand. 22 And Yahweh gave great and awesome signs and wonders in Egypt against Pharaoh and against his entire household in our presence.y 23 But he brought us out from there in order to bring us here to give us the land that he swore to our ancestors.z 24 And so Yahweh commanded us to observe all of these rules and to revere Yahweh our God for our benefita all the days that we live,b as it is today.c 25 And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe and do all of this commandment befored Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.’

7 “When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter into ita to take possession of it, and he drivesb out many nations before you,c the Hittitesd and the Girgashitese and the Amoritesf and the Canaanitesg​and the Perizzites and the Hivitesh and the Jebusites,i seven nations mightier and more numerous than you, and Yahweh your God will give them over to youj and you defeat them, you must utterly destroy them;k you shall not make a covenant with them, and you shall not show mercy to them. And you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to their son; and you shall not take his daughter for your son.l For theirm sons and daughters will cause your sonn to turn away from following me,o and so they will serve other gods, and the anger of Yahweh would be kindledp against you, and he would quickly destroy you. But this is what you must do to them: you shall break down their altars, and their stone pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall hew down, and you shall burn their idols with fire. For you are a holy people for Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be for him a people, a treasured possession from among all the peoples that are on the faceq of the earth.

“Yahweh loved you and chose you not because of your great numberr exceeding all other peoples, for you are fewer than all of the peoples, buts because oft the love of Yahweh for you and because of his keeping of the sworn oath that he swore to your ancestors,u Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. So know that Yahweh your God, he is God, the trustworthy God, maintaining hisv covenant and hisw loyal love with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments to a thousand generations,x 10 but repaying thosey who hate him in their own personz to destroy them;a he is not slow with those who hate him in their own person;b he repays them.c 11 And so you shall keep the commandment and the rules and the regulations that I am commanding you todayd to observe them.

12 And thene because you listen to these regulations and you diligently keep and you do them, then Yahweh your God will maintain hisf covenant and hisg loyal love that he swore to your ancestors.h 13 And he will love you, and he will bless you, and he will multiply you, and he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your soil, your grain, your wine, and your olive oil, and newborn calves of your cattle, and the newborn lambsi of your flocks in the land that he swore to your ancestorsj to give you. 14 You shall be blessed more than all of the peoples; among you there shall not be sterility and bareness, evenk among domestic animals.l 15 And Yahweh will turn away from you all the illness and all the harmful diseases of Egypt that you experienced; he will not lay them on you, but he will lay them on all of those who hate you. 16 And you shall devour all of the peoples that Yahweh your God is giving to you; you shall not pity them,m and you shall not serve their gods, which will be a snare for you.

17 “If you think in your heart, ‘These nations are more numerous than I, so how can I dispossess them?’ 18 then remember you must not be afraid of them; you must well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt: 19 the great trials that your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the workings of the strong hand and the outstretched arm by which Yahweh your God brought you out; so Yahweh your God will do to all of the peoples because of whomn you are in fear before them.o 20 And, moreover, Yahweh your God will send the hornetsp among them until both the survivors and the fugitives are destroyedq before you.r 21 You must not be in dread from the presence of them, because Yahweh your God, who is in your midst, is a great and awesome God. 22 And Yahweh your God will clear away these nations from before yous little by little; you will not be able to finish them off quickly, lestt the wild animalsu multiplyv against you.w 23 But Yahweh your God will give them to you,x and he will throw them into great panic until they are destroyed.y 24 And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall blot out their namesz from under the heaven; anyone will not be able to stand against youa until you destroy them.b 25 You shall burn the images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, and so you take it for yourself, so that you are not ensnared by it, for it is a detestable thing to Yahweh your God. 26 And you must not bring a detestable thing into your house, or you will become a thing devoted to destruction like it; you must utterly detest it, and you must utterly abhor it, for it is an object devoted to destruction.

8 “All of the commandmentsa that I am commanding you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and multiply, and you may go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors.b And you shall remember all of the way that Yahweh your God led you during these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what is in your heart, whether you would diligently keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you go hungry, and then he fed you with that which you did not know nor did your ancestorsc know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone but by all that goes outd of the mouth of Yahweh humankind shall live. Your clothing did not wear out on you,e and your feet did not swell during these forty years. And you should know with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God is disciplining you.f So you must keep the commandments of Yahweh your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. For Yahweh your God is bringing you to a good land with streams of water, springs and underground water, welling up in the valleysg and in the hills,h to a land of wheat and barley and vinesi and fig treesj and pomegranate trees,k a land of olive trees,l olive oil and honey; to a land where you may eat food in it without scarcity;m you will not find anything lacking in it, a land where its stones are iron and from its mountains you can mine copper. 10 And you will eat, and you will be satisfied,n and you will bless Yahweh your God because of the good land that he has given to you.

11 “Take care for yourself so that you not forget Yahweh your God by not keeping his commandments and his regulations and his statutes that I am commanding you today,o 12 lest when you have eaten and you are satisfied and you have built good houses and you live in them, 13 and your herds and your flocks have multiplied, and you have accumulated silver and gold,p and all that you haveq has multiplied, 14 then your heart becomes proudr and you forget Yahweh your God, the one who brought you outs from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, 15 the one leading you in the great and terrible desert infested with dangeroust snakesu and scorpionsv and parched ground, where there isw no water, and the one bringing out water for you from flint rock, 16 the one feeding youx manna in the desert, food that your ancestorsy did not know, in order to humble you and in order to test you so that he could do good to you in the future.z 17 And you may thinka in your heart, ‘My strength and the might of my hand acquired this wealth forb me.’ 18 But you must remember Yahweh your God, for he is the one giving you strength to acquire wealth in order to confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestorsc as it…

Read more Explain verse



A service of Logos Bible Software