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The bulk of the eleventh chapter of Deuteronomy (vv. 13-32) outlines the details of what is known as the Palestinian Covenant. Notes on page 211 of The Dake Annotated Reference Bible are typical of the kind of analysis Dake gives such passages:

The Palestinian Covenant (Dt. 11:13)

Fifteen Conditions:

  1. If you hearken diligently to My commandments (v. 13)
  2. Love the Lord your God (vv. 13, 22)
  3. Serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul
  4. Take heed to your heart not to be deceived (v. 16)
  5. Do not turn aside to serve other gods and worship them
  6. Lay up My words in your heart and in your soul (v. 18)
  7. Bind them for a sign upon your hands and frontlets between your eyes
  8. Teach them to your children when you sit in your house, walk by the way, lie down, rise up (v. 19)
  9. Write them on the door posts of your house and upon your gates (v. 20)
  10. Diligently keep and do all My commandments which I command you (v. 22)
  11. Walk in all His ways
  12. Cleave to Him
  13. I set before you a blessing and a curse-a blessing if you obey the commandments; a curse, if you will not obey, and if you turn away from them to go after other gods (vv. 26-28)
  14. In the land you shall write the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal (vv. 29-30)
  15. Observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day (v. 32)

Fourteen Blessings:

  1. Rain in due season upon the land, the former rain and the latter rain (v. 14). The early rain fell in October to moisten the parched soil and prepare it for sowing. The latter rain fell in March to bring the crops to maturity
  2. Abundant crops of corn, wine, and oil
  3. Good pastures for stock that you may be prosperous and full (v. 15)
  4. Your days multiplied (v. 21)
  5. The days of your children multiplied in the land
  6. Blessings as the days of heaven on earth
  7. Complete victory over all the nations of the promised land (v. 23)
  8. You shall possess all their lands and property
  9. Everywhere you walk shall be yours, from the wilderness on the south to Lebanon on the north, and from the river Euphrates on the east to the Mediterranean on the west (v. 24)
  10. No man shall be able to defeat you or stand before you as long as you keep My covenant (v. 25)
  11. God will put a fear of you upon all the inhabitants round about
  12. A blessing if you obey the covenant (v. 27)
  13. A constant reminder of God's covenant (vv. 29-30)
  14. Success in the conquest and possession of the land to dwell therein (v. 31)

Five Curses:

  1. The Lord's wrath kindled against you (v. 17)
  2. No rain from heaven
  3. Crop failures
  4. To perish quickly from off the good land given you by God
  5. A curse if you disobey My covenant or if you go after other gods and worship them (vv. 26-28)

     

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