Add parallel Print Page Options

20 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates 21 so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land that the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.[a] 22 For if you carefully observe all of these commandments[b] I am giving you[c] and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards,[d] and remain loyal to him,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:21 tn Heb “like the days of the heavens upon the earth,” that is, forever.
  2. Deuteronomy 11:22 tn Heb “this commandment.” See note at Deut 5:30.
  3. Deuteronomy 11:22 tn Heb “commanding you to do it.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation and “to do it” has been left untranslated.
  4. Deuteronomy 11:22 tn Heb “walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV); TEV “do everything he commands.”