Deuteronomy 11:1

The NET Bible®

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

Parallel Translations

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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].

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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;

Contextual Overview

¹ You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times. ² Bear in mind today that I am not speaking to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments of the Lord your God, which revealed his greatness, strength, and power. ³ They did not see the awesome deeds he performed in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and his whole land, ⁴ or what he did to the army of Egypt, including their horses and chariots, when he made the waters of the Red Sea overwhelm them while they were pursuing you and he annihilated them. ⁵ They did not see what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place, ⁶ or what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and all the property they brought with them. ⁷ I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the Lord !

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 five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord who commands armies. One will be called the City of the Sun.

Zephaniah 3:9
Know for sure that I will then enable the nations to give me acceptable praise. All of them will invoke the Lord 's name when they pray, and will worship him in unison.

Acts 2:6
When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his 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.