Deuteronomy 11 · Verse 26

Deuteronomy 11:26

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
Deuteronomy 11:26, King James Version

Deuteronomy 11:26 in other translations

BSBSee, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—
WEBBehold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
ASVBehold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
YLT‘See, I am setting before you to-day a blessing and a reviling:
DARBYSee, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
BBEToday I put before you a blessing and a curse:
WebsterBehold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

What does Deuteronomy 11:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 11:26-32
26-32. Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse--(See on De 27:11).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 26 Behold, I set before you - a blessing and a curse - If God had not put it in the power of this people either to obey or disobey; if they had not had a free will, over which they had complete authority, to use it either in the way of willing or nilling; could God, with any propriety, have given such precepts as these, sanctioned with such promises and threatenings? If they were not free agents, they could not be punished for disobedience, nor could they, in any sense of the word, have been rewardable for obedience. A Stone is not rewardable because, in obedience to the laws of gravitation, it always tends to the center; nor is it punishable be cause, in being removed from that center, in its tending or falling towards it again it takes away the life of a man. That God has given man a free, self-determining Will, which cannot be forced by any power but that which is omnipotent, and which God himself never will force, is declared in the most formal manner through the whole of the sacred writings. No argument can affect this, while the Bible is considered as a Divine revelation; no sophistry can explain away its evidence, as long as the accountableness of man for his conduct is admitted, and as long as the eternal bounds of moral good and evil remain, and the essential distinctions between vice and virtue exist. If ye will obey, (for God is ever ready to assist), ye shall live; if ye will disobey and refuse that help, ye shall die. So hath Jehovah spoken, and man cannot reverse it.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:26-32
Moses sums up all the arguments for obedience in two words, the blessing and the curse. He charged the people to choose which they would have. Moses then appointed a public and solemn proclamation of the blessing and curse, to be made upon the two mountains of Gerizim and Ebal. We have broken the law, and are under its curse, without remedy from ourselves. In mercy, the gospel again sets before us a blessing and a curse. A blessing, if we obey the call to repentance, to faith in Christ, and newness of heart and life through him; an awful curse, if we neglect so great salvation. Let us thankfully welcome these glad tidings of great joy; and let us not harden our hearts, but hear this voice of God while it is called to-day, and while he invites us to come to him upon a mercy-seat. Let us be diligent to make our calling and election sure.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Deuteronomy 11:26 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

רְאֵ֗הre.'EhseeH7200
אָנֹכִ֛י'a.no.KhiIH595
נֹתֵ֥ןno.Ten[am] settingH5414
לִפְנֵיכֶ֖םlif.nei.Khem<to> before youH6440
הַיּ֑וֹםhai.Yomthis dayH3117
בְּרָכָ֖הbe.ra.Khaha blessingH1293
וּקְלָלָֽה\׃u.ke.la.Lahand a curseH7045

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 11:26

  • Deuteronomy 30:15-20

    See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. …

  • Deuteronomy 30:1

    And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,

  • Galatians 3:10

    For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

  • Galatians 3:13-14

    Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
30:1,15-20; Ga 3:10,13,14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Deuteronomy 11:25

    There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the Lord your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

  • Deuteronomy 11:26

    Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

  • Deuteronomy 11:27

    A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:

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Deuteronomy 11:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		He aquí yo pongo hoy delante de vosotros la bendición y la maldición:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Regarde, je mets aujourd’hui devant vous la bénédiction et la malédiction:
German
Elberfelder 1871		Siehe, ich lege euch heute Segen und Fluch vor:
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		En propono in conspectu vestro hodie benedictionem et maledictionem: