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Deuteronomy 11

Deut. 11:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore thou shalt love
'ahab (Hebrew #157)
a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
KJV usage: (be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Pronounce: aw-hab'
Origin: or raheb {aw-habe'}
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
thy God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
, and keep
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
his charge
mishmereth (Hebrew #4931)
watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concr.) the sentry, the post; obj. preservation, or (concr.) safe; fig. observance, i.e. (abstr.) duty or (obj.) a usage or party
KJV usage: charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.
Pronounce: mish-mer'-reth
Origin: fem. of 4929
, and his statutes
chuqqah (Hebrew #2708)
feminine of 2706, and meaning substantially the same
KJV usage: appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.
Pronounce: khook-kaw'
, and his judgments
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
, and his commandments
mitsvah (Hebrew #4687)
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
KJV usage: (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
Pronounce: mits-vaw'
Origin: from 6680
, alway
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
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Ministry on This Verse

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1:  An exhortation to obedience;
2-7:  by their own experience of God's great works;
8-15:  by promise of God's great blessings;
16-17:  and by threatenings.
18-25:  A careful study is required in God's words.
26-32:  The blessing and curse set before them.
thou shalt.This verse is the practical improvement of the conclusion of the foregoing chapter; while the next verse begins another view of the subject.
Deut. 6:5• 5and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength. (Deut. 6:5)
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Deut. 10:12• 12And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, (Deut. 10:12)
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Deut. 30:16‑20• 16in that I command thee this day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou mayest live and multiply, and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
 17But if thy heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and thou shalt bow down to other gods and serve them;
 18I denounce unto you this day that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whereunto thou passest over the Jordan to possess it.
 19I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you: life and death have I set before you, blessing and cursing: choose then life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed,
 20in loving Jehovah thy God, in hearkening to his voice, and in cleaving to him--for this is thy life and the length of thy days--that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. (Deut. 30:16‑20)
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Psa. 116:1• 1I love Jehovah, for he hath heard my voice and my supplications; (Psa. 116:1)
keep.
Lev. 8:35• 35And ye shall abide at the entrance of the tent of meeting day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Jehovah, that ye die not; for so I am commanded. (Lev. 8:35)
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Zech. 3:7• 7Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts; and I will give thee a place to walk among these that stand by. (Zech. 3:7)
his statutes.
Deut. 4:1,5,40• 1And now, Israel, hearken to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers giveth you.
 5See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye may do so in the land into which ye enter to possess it.
 40And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days on the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for ever. (Deut. 4:1,5,40)
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Deut. 6:1• 1And these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye may do them in the land whereunto ye pass over to possess it, (Deut. 6:1)
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Psa. 105:45• 45That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Hallelujah! (Psa. 105:45)
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Luke 1:74‑75• 74to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear
 75in piety and righteousness before him all our days. (Luke 1:74‑75)
• In Deuteronomy 11 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. They were to remember what rebellion must end in. (“Deuteronomy 11” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou shalt love then Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments continuallya.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "all the days."