Deuteronomy 7:11

Complete Jewish Bible

Therefore, you are to keep the mitzvot, laws and rulings which I am giving you today, and obey them. Haftarah Va'etchanan: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 40:1–26 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Va'etchanan: Mattityahu (Matthew) 4:1–11; 22:33–40; Mark 12:28–34; Luke 4:1–13; 10:25–37; Acts 13:13–43; Romans 3:27–31; 1 Timothy 2:4–6; Ya‘akov (James) 2:14–26; and all the readings for Parashah 17 "Because you are listening to these rulings, keeping and obeying them, Adonai your God will keep with you the covenant and mercy that he swore to your ancestors. He will love you, bless you and increase your numbers; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground — your grain, wine, olive oil and the young of your cattle and sheep — in the land he swore to your ancestors that he would give you. You will be blessed more than all other peoples; there will not be a sterile male or female among you, and the same with your livestock. Adonai will remove all illness from you — he will not afflict you with any of Egypt's dreadful diseases, which you have known; instead, he will lay them on those who hate you. You are to devour all the peoples that Adonai your God hands over to you — show them no pity, and do not serve their gods, because that will become a trap for you. If you think to yourselves, ‘These nations outnumber us; how can we dispossess them?' nevertheless, you are not to be afraid of them; you are to remember well what Adonai your God did to Pharaoh and all of Egypt — the great ordeals which you yourself saw, and the signs, wonders, strong hand and outstretched arm by which Adonai your God brought you out. Adonai will do the same to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. Moreover, Adonai your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left and those who hide themselves perish ahead of you. You are not to be frightened of them, because Adonai your God is there with you, a God great and fearsome. Adonai your God will expel those nations ahead of you little by little; you can't put an end to them all at once, or the wild animals will become too numerous for you. Nevertheless, Adonai your God will give them over to you, sending one disaster after another upon them until they have been destroyed. He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their name from under heaven; none of them will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. You are to burn up completely the carved statues of their gods. Don't be greedy for the silver or gold on them; don't take it with you, or you will be trapped by it; for it is abhorrent to Adonai your God. Don't bring something abhorrent into your house, or you will share in the curse that is on it; instead, you are to detest it completely, loathe it utterly; for it is set apart for destruction.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall therefore keep the mitzvah, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

King James Version
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Lexham English Bible
And so you shall keep the commandment and the rules and the regulations that I am commanding you today to observe them.

English Standard Version
You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.

New Century Version
So be careful to obey the commands, rules, and laws I give you today.

New English Translation
So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.

Amplified Bible
"Therefore, you shall keep (follow, obey) the commandment and the statutes and judgments (precepts) which I am commanding you today.

New American Standard Bible
"Therefore, you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Keepe thou therefore the commaundements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which I commaund thee this day to doe them.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Contemporary English Version
So be sure to obey his laws and teachings I am giving you today.

Darby Translation
And thou shalt keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Easy-to-Read Version
So you must be careful to obey the commands, laws, and rules that I give you today.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall therefore keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which I command you this day, and do them.

Good News Translation
Now then, obey what you have been taught; obey all the laws that I have given you today.

Christian Standard Bible®
So keep the command—the statutes and ordinances—that I am giving you to follow today.

Literal Translation
And you shall keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Kepe now therfore the commaundementes, and ordinaunces and lawes, which I commaunde the this daye, that thou do therafter.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Bible in Basic English
So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Kepe thou therfore the commaundementes, and ordinaunces, and lawes, which I commaunde thee this day, that thou do them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt therefore keepe the Commandements, and the Statutes, and the Iudgements, which I command thee this day, to doe them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt keep therefore the commands, and the ordinances, and these judgments, which I command thee this day to do.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Berean Standard Bible
So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor kepe thou the comaundementis, and cerymonyes, and domes, whiche Y comaunde to thee to dai, that thou do.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding thee to-day to do them.

Update Bible Version
You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

World English Bible
You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

New King James Version
Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

New Living Translation
Therefore, you must obey all these commands, decrees, and regulations I am giving you today.

New Life Bible
So keep and obey all the Laws I am telling you today.

New Revised Standard
Therefore, observe diligently the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that I am commanding you today.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shalt thou keep the commandment and the statutes and the regulations, which I am commanding thee to-day, to do them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I command thee this day to do.

Revised Standard Version
You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day.

THE MESSAGE
So keep the command and the rules and regulations that I command you today. Do them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Contextual Overview

¹ (vii) " Adonai your God is going to bring you into the land you will enter in order to take possession of it, and he will expel many nations ahead of you — the Hitti, Girgashi, Emori, Kena‘ani, P'rizi, Hivi and Y'vusi, seven nations bigger and stronger than you. ² When he does this, when Adonai your God hands them over ahead of you, and you defeat them, you are to destroy them completely! Do not make any covenant with them. Show them no mercy. ³ Don't intermarry with them — don't give your daughter to his son, and don't take his daughter for your son. ⁴ For he will turn your children away from following me in order to serve other gods. If this happens, the anger of Adonai will flare up against you, and he will quickly destroy you. ⁵ No, treat them this way: break down their altars, smash their standing-stones to pieces, cut down their sacred poles and burn up their carved images completely. ⁶ For you are a people set apart as holy for Adonai your God. Adonai your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his own unique treasure. ⁷ Adonai didn't set his heart on you or choose you because you numbered more than any other people — on the contrary, you were the fewest of all peoples. ⁸ Rather, it was because Adonai loved you, and because he wanted to keep the oath which he had sworn to your ancestors, that Adonai brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from a life of slavery under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹ (Maftir) From this you can know that Adonai your God is indeed God, the faithful God, who keeps his covenant and extends grace to those who love him and observe his mitzvot, to a thousand generations. ¹⁰ But he repays those who hate him to their face and destroys them. He will not be slow to deal with someone who hates him; he will repay him to his face.

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Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
God made the dome and divided the water under the dome from the water above the dome; that is how it was,

Genesis 6:17
"Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed.

Genesis 7:5
Noach did all that Adonai ordered him to do.

Genesis 7:6
Noach was 600 years old when the water flooded the earth.

Genesis 7:8
Of clean animals, of animals that are not clean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

Genesis 7:11
On the seventeenth day of the second month of the 600th year of Noach's life all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the sky were opened.

Genesis 7:23
He wiped out every living thing on the surface of the ground — not only human beings, but livestock, creeping animals and birds in the air. They were wiped out from the earth; only Noach was left, along with those who were with him in the ark.

Genesis 7:24
The water held power over the earth for 150 days.

2 Kings 7:2
The servant on whose arm the king was leaning answered the man of God: "Why, this couldn't happen even if Adonai made windows in heaven!" Elisha answered, "All right, you yourself will see it with your own eyes; but you won't eat any of it!"

2 Kings 7:19
the servant had answered the man of God, "Why, this couldn't happen even if Adonai made windows in heaven!" and Elisha had said, "All right, you yourself will see it with your own eyes; but you won't eat any of it!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments,.... The laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, urged thereunto both by promises and threatenings, in hopes of reward, and through fear of punishment:

which I command thee this day, to do them; in the name of the Lord, and by his authority; by virtue of which he made a new declaration of them to put them in mind of them in order to observe them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Deuteronomy 6:10 note.

Deuteronomy 7:5

Their groves - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is to the wooden trunk used as a representation of Ashtaroth; see Deuteronomy 7:13 and Exodus 34:13 note.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The fewest of all people - God chose for Himself Israel, when as yet but a single family, or rather a single person, Abraham; though there were already numerous nations and powerful kingdoms in the earth. Increase Deuteronomy 1:10; Deuteronomy 10:22 had taken place because of the very blessing of God spoken of in Deuteronomy 7:8.

Deuteronomy 7:10

Repayeth them that hate him to their face - i. e., punishes His enemies in their own proper persons.