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Deuteronomy 11:8

Deuteronomy 11:8
Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For the land whither thou goest in to possess it,.... The land of Canaan they were about to take possession of:

is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out; either the whole land of Egypt,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Deuteronomy 11:8-17

Still Moses urges the same subject, as loth to conclude till he had gained his point. "If thou wilt enter into life, if thou wilt enter into Canaan, a type of that life, and find it a good land indeed…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

On such recognition (Deu 11:11 But know ye) of the awful discipline of God the discourse now bases another of its many appeals to the people to observe the Law, with the usual promise of consequent…