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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, 23 then he[e] will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

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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.”
  5. Deuteronomy 11:23 tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.