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Deuteronomy 11:31 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it. "
Deuteronomy 11:31
Verse in Context
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29 It shall happen, when the LORD your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
30 Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
31 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.
32 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.
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Deuteronomy 11:1
"Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always."
Deuteronomy 11:2
"Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,"
Deuteronomy 11:3
"his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;"
Deuteronomy 11:4
"and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;"
Deuteronomy 11:5
"and what he did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place;"
Deuteronomy 11:6
"and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;"
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