Deuteronomy 11:1

Easy-to-Read Version

"So you must love the Lord your God. You must do what he tells you to do and always obey his laws, rules, and commands.

Parallel Translations

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

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his mitzvot, always.

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

Lexham English Bible
"And you shall love Yahweh your God, and you shall keep his obligations and his statutes and his regulations and his commandments always.

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

New Century Version
Love the Lord your God and always obey his orders, rules, laws, and commands.

New English Translation
You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.

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].

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore thou shalt loue the Lord thy God, and shalt keepe that, which he commandeth to be kept: that is, his ordinances, and his lawes, and his commandements alway.

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

Contemporary English Version
Moses said to Israel: The Lord is your God, so you must always love him and obey his laws and teachings.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Therefore, you are to love Adonai your God and always obey his commission, regulations, rulings and mitzvot.

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

George Lamsa Translation
THEREFORE you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his precepts, his statutes, his judgments, and his commandments, always.

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

Literal Translation
And you shall love Jehovah your God, and keep His charge, and His statutes and His judgments, and His commandments all the days.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore shalt thou loue the LORDE yi God, & kepe his comaundemetes, his ordinaunces, his lawes, & his preceptes all yi life loge.

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

Bible in Basic English
So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore thou shalt loue ye Lord thy God, & kepe his obseruannces, his ordinaunces, his lawes, & his commaudementes alway.

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

King James Version (1611)
Therefore thou shalt loue the Lord thy God, and keepe his charge, and his Statutes, and his Iudgements, and his Commandements alway.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and shalt observe his appointments, and his ordinances, and his commandments, and his judgments, always.

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.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor loue thi Lord God, and kepe thou hise comaundementis and cerymonyes, domes and heestis, in al tyme.

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;

Update Bible Version
Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his charge, 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 charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

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 Living Translation
"You must love the Lord your God and always obey his requirements, decrees, regulations, and commands.

New Life Bible
"Love the Lord your God. Always do what He tells you and keep all His Laws.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore shalt thou love Yahweh thy God and keep his observance and his statutes and his regulations and his commandments all the days.

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

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

THE MESSAGE
So love God , your God; guard well his rules and regulations; obey his commandments for the rest of time.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

Contextual Overview

¹ "So you must love the Lord your God. You must do what he tells you to do and always obey his laws, rules, and commands. ² Remember today all the great things the Lord your God has done to teach you. It was you, not your children, who saw those things happen and lived through them. You saw how great he is. You saw how strong he is, and you saw the powerful things he does. ³ You, not your children, saw the miracles he did in Egypt. You saw what he did to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his whole country. ⁴ You, not your children, saw what he did to the Egyptian army—to their horses and chariots. They were chasing you, but you saw him cover them with the water from the Red Sea. You saw how the Lord completely destroyed them. ⁵ It was you, not your children, who saw everything he did for you in the desert until you came to this place. ⁶ You saw what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab from Reuben's family. All the Israelites watched as the ground opened up like a mouth and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and all of their servants and animals. ⁷ It was you, not your children, who saw all the great things the Lord did.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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. Deuteronomy 6:5, Deuteronomy 10:12, Deuteronomy 30:16-20, Psalms 116:1

keep: Leviticus 8:35, Zechariah 3:7

his statutes: Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 4:5, Deuteronomy 4:40, Deuteronomy 6:1, Psalms 105:45, Luke 1:74, Luke 1:75

Reciprocal: Exodus 24:3 - all the judgments Deuteronomy 5:29 - keep all Deuteronomy 5:31 - General Deuteronomy 26:16 - This day Deuteronomy 27:10 - General Joshua 22:5 - love Psalms 106:3 - at all times Ezekiel 18:9 - walked

Cross-References

Isaiah 19:18
At that time there will be five cities in Egypt where people speak Hebrew. One of these cities will be named "Destruction City." The people in these cities will promise to follow the Lord All-Powerful.

Zephaniah 3:9
Then I will change people from other nations so that they can speak the language clearly and call out the name of the Lord . They will all worship me together, shoulder to shoulder, as one people.

Acts 2:6
A large crowd came together because they heard the noise. They were surprised because, as the apostles were speaking, everyone heard in their own language.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God,.... Because he is so great and glorious in himself, and because he had done such great and good things for them, the Israelites, particularly in the multiplication of them, the last thing mentioned:

and keep his charge; whatsoever the Lord had charged them to observe, even what follow:

and his statutes and his judgments, and his commandments, alway; all his laws, ceremonial, judicial, and moral; and that constantly and continually, all the days of their lives.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XI

The people are exhorted to obedience from a consideration of

God's goodness to their fathers in Egypt, 1-4,

and what he did in the wilderness, 5,

and the judgment on Dathan and Abiram, 6,

and from the mercies of God in general, 7-9.

A comparative description of Egypt and Canaan, 19-12.

Promises to obedience, 13-15.

Dissuasives from idolatry, 16,17.

The words of God to be laid up in their hearts, to be for a sign

on their hands, foreheads, gates, c., 18,

taught to their children, made the subject of frequent

conversation, to the end that their days may be multiplied,

19-21.

If obedient, God shall give them possession of the whole land,

and not one of their enemies shall be able to withstand them,

22-25.

Life and death, a blessing and a curse, are set before them,

26-28.

The blessings to be put on Mount Gerizim and the curses on Mount

Ebal, 29, 30.

The promise that they should pass over Jordan, and observe these

statutes in the promised land, 31, 32.

NOTES ON CHAP. XI

Verse Deuteronomy 11:1. Thou shalt love the Lord — Because without this there could be no obedience to the Divine testimonies, and no happiness in the soul for the heart that is destitute of the love of God, is empty of all good, and consequently miserable. Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 10:12.