Deuteronomy 11:1
New International Version
Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.

New Living Translation
“You must love the LORD your God and always obey his requirements, decrees, regulations, and commands.

English Standard Version
“You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.

Berean Standard Bible
You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

King James Bible
Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

New King James Version
“Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.

New American Standard Bible
“You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and always keep His directive, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

NASB 1995
“You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

NASB 1977
“You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

Legacy Standard Bible
“You shall therefore love Yahweh your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments all your days.

Amplified Bible
“Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His precepts, and His commandments [it is your obligation to Him].

Christian Standard Bible
“Therefore, love the LORD your God and always keep his mandate and his statutes, ordinances, and commands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, love the LORD your God and always keep His mandate and His statutes, ordinances, and commands.

American Standard Version
Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Love LORD JEHOVAH your God and keep his charge and his laws and his judgments and his commandments for all days.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and shalt observe his appointments, and his ordinances, and his commandments, and his judgments, always.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD is your God, so you must always love him and obey his laws and teachings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.

English Revised Version
Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Love the LORD your God, and do what he wants you to do. Always obey his laws, rules, and commands.

Good News Translation
"Love the LORD your God and always obey all his laws.

International Standard Version
"Therefore love the LORD your God and be very careful to keep his injunctions, statutes, ordinances, and commands all the time.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep His charge, and His statutes, and His ordinances, and His commandments, alway.

Literal Standard Version
“And you have loved your God YHWH, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, [for] all the days;

Majority Standard Bible
You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

New American Bible
Love the LORD, your God, therefore, and keep his charge, statutes, ordinances, and commandments always.

NET Bible
You must love the LORD your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall love the LORD your God, therefore, and keep his charge, his decrees, his ordinances, and his commandments always.

New Heart English Bible
Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.

World English Bible
Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

Young's Literal Translation
'And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Obedience and Discipline
1You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. 2Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;…

Cross References
Leviticus 8:35
You must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the LORD's charge so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded."

Leviticus 18:30
You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God."

Leviticus 22:9
The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

Deuteronomy 5:29
If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.

Deuteronomy 6:5
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 11:13
So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,


Treasury of Scripture

Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.

Deuteronomy 6:5
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

Deuteronomy 30:16-20
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it…

keep

Leviticus 8:35
Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.

Zechariah 3:7
Thus saith the LORD 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 places to walk among these that stand by.

his statutes

Deuteronomy 4:1,5,40
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you…

Deuteronomy 6:1
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

Psalm 105:45
That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

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Deuteronomy 11
1. Another exhortation to obedience
2. by their own experience of God's great works
8. by promise of God's great blessings
16. and by threatenings
18. A careful study is required in God's words
26. The blessing and curse set before them














XI.

(1) Therefore.--There is no break here in the original. "The Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God."

And keep his charge.--Literally, keep his keeping, i.e., all that is to be kept in obedience to Him.

Alway.--Literally, all the days. (Comp. "I am with you all the days" in Matthew 28:20) Israel must not omit one day in keeping the charge of Jehovah, for "He that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep."

Verse 1. - His charge; what he has appointed to be observed and done (cf. Leviticus 8:35; Numbers 1:53); more fully explained by his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You shall therefore love
וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ (wə·’ā·haḇ·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 157: To have affection f

the LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God
אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

and always
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

keep
וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֣ (wə·šā·mar·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

His charge,
מִשְׁמַרְתּ֗וֹ (miš·mar·tōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4931: A guard, watch, charge, function

His statutes,
וְחֻקֹּתָ֧יו (wə·ḥuq·qō·ṯāw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2708: Something prescribed, an enactment, statute

His ordinances,
וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֛יו (ū·miš·pā·ṭāw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

and His commandments.
וּמִצְוֺתָ֖יו (ū·miṣ·wō·ṯāw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4687: Commandment


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