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Deuteronomy 11:2
英文原文
And know ... - Render it: And own ye this day (for I have not to do with your children which have not known and which have not seen) the chastisement of the Lord, his greatness, etc.
The "chastisement" consisted in the many mighty acts, both of punishment and mercy, through which God had guided them from Egypt to the borders of the promised land.
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Deuteronomy 11:6
参见旁注。直译为“他们脚底下的一切活物”。这措辞并非指他们的财物——那本已包含在“家眷与帐棚”之内——而是指他们的随从者（Numbers 16:32）。
英文原文
See the margin. literally, "every living thing at their feet." The expression does not mean their goods, which would be included in their "households and tents," but their followers Numbers 16:32.
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Deuteronomy 11:10
这里附加了另一个要求忠信的动机，即应许之地的丰饶完全仰赖于神。那地本是"流奶与蜜之地"；然而这丰富并不像埃及那样，是人技艺与劳苦的报偿，反倒单纯而完全是神的恩赐，是他所降"秋雨春雨"的果效。应许之地的这一特点以及许多其他类似特点的属灵意义，不容忽视。
在本节和以下几节中，埃及与迦南按其最显著的地理特征被加以区分。迦南是山国（参较 Deuteronomy 3:25 注释），水源充足，然而全赖天上的雨水，其庄稼完全仰赖于此；人工灌溉无法消除这种依赖。因此，只要神的子民忠信、并因而兴旺，那地就始终是有"神的眼目"时常看顾之地；意即他会在每个季节（参较 Deuteronomy 11:14-15）供应有利于出产的条件。而埃及在这里也如同在别处一样，是与恩典世界相对的自然世界的恰当表号；它当然最终也从那位厚赐一切美物者领受所有，但其富庶丰盛却直接而即刻地归功于人的巧智与资本。埃及几乎没有值得一提的降雨，其水源来自尼罗河一年一度的泛滥。泛滥仅持续约一百天，却借着一套精密而昂贵的蓄水池、运河、提水机械等系统，全年可供农业之用。Deuteronomy 11:10 所暗指的正是这些机械装置。埃及居民大概以两种方式"用脚"浇灌：一是使用驱动成组水泵的脚踏轮，二是使用与蓄水池相连、以脚开启、改道或关闭的人工沟渠。这两种方法至今仍在埃及使用。
英文原文
Another motive for fidelity is added, namely, the entire dependence of the promised land upon God for its fertility. It was "a land flowing with milk and honey;" yet this its richness was not, as was that of Egypt, the reward of truman skill and labor, but was, on the contrary, the gift of God simply and entirely; the effect of "the former and the latter rains" sent by Him. The spiritual significance of these and many other such peculiarities of the promised land must not be overlooked.
Egypt and Canaan are distinguished in this and the following verses, by certain of their most remarkable physical traits. Canaan as a mountainous country (compare Deuteronomy 3:25 note) was well watered, but by the rains of heaven, on which it absolutely depended for its crops. Artificial irrigation could do nothing to remedy this dependence. Hence, it was a land on which, so long as God's people were faithful and consequently prosperous, "the eyes of God" would always be: i. e., He would supply at each successive season (compare Deuteronomy 11:14-15) the useful conditions of productiveness. But Egypt, fit emblem here as elsewhere of the world of nature in distinction from the world of grace, though of course deriving its all ultimately from the Giver of all good things, yet directly and immediately owed its riches and plenty to human ingenuity and capital. It enjoyed no rain worth speaking of, but drew its water supply from the annum overflowing of the Nile. This only lasts about a hundred days; but is rendered available for agricultural purposes throughout the year by an elaborate and costly system of tanks, canals, forcing machines, etc. To these mechanical appliances allusion is made in Deuteronomy 11:10. The inhabitants of Egypt probably watered "with the foot" in two ways, namely, by means of tread-wheels working sets of pumps, and by means of artificial channels connected with reservoirs, and opened, turned, or closed by the feet. Both methods are still in use in Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 11:14
秋雨春雨 - 前一个词是秋令雨的恰当名称，约在播种的时候降下；由于降在希伯来民历一年之初——即十月与十一月——故可称为"先来的"雨。另一个词则用于春雨，降于三月与四月，因为它使土地预备好收成。在这两个雨季之间，除二者之外，迦南几乎没有降雨或全然无雨。
英文原文
The first rain and the latter rain - The former is the proper term for the autumn rain, falling about the time of sowing, and which may be named "the former," as occurring in the early part of the Hebrew civil year, namely, in October and November. The other word is applied to the spring rain, which falls in March and April, because it fits the earth for the ingathering of harvest. Between these two wet periods, and except them, there was little or no rain in Canaan.
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Deuteronomy 11:21
其意是：“忠心守约，这样，天覆盖地多久，你们和你们子孙的日子就必增多多久。”这样，赐给以色列的迦南应许乃是永远的应许，同时也是有条件的应许。
英文原文
The sense is: "Keep the covenant faithfully, and so shall your own and your children's days be multiplied as long as the heaven covers the earth." The promise of Canaan to Israel was thus a perpetual promise, but also a conditional one.
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Deuteronomy 11:29
你将祝福陈明在基利心山上 - 直译是“你要给”，即以言语“发出”它。关于那仪式，见 Deuteronomy 27:14 及以下。
基利心山与以巴路山一样贫瘠，之所以大概被选为祝福之山，是因为它是两山之中偏南的一座；按希伯来人的观念，南方是光的方向，因而也是生命与祝福的方向。两山的位置在 Deuteronomy 11:30 有更准确的描述。“日落之处的大路”一语，应作“西边大路的另一边”，即指从叙利亚与大马士革经巴勒斯坦中部通往耶路撒冷与埃及的那条大干道的另一侧。这条路称为“西边的路”，以别于另一条从大马士革南下、取道约旦河东地区的大道。后面更细的指定——“吉甲”与“摩利的平原”（更当译作“摩利的橡树”，参较 Genesis 12:6 注释）——是为更明确界定所指的迦南人居住的那一地段。
这吉甲或许就是吉吉利亚，即基利心以南约十二英里的一个大村庄。
英文原文
Thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim - literally, thou shalt give, i. e., "give" utterance to it. On the ceremony see Deuteronomy 27:14 ff.
Mount Gerizim, barren like Ebal, was probably selected as the hill of benediction because it was the southernmost of the two, the south being the region, according to Hebrew ideas, of light, and so of life and blessing. The situation of the mountains is described more accurately in Deuteronomy 11:30. The words "by the way where the sun goeth down," should run, beyond the road of the west; i. e., on the further side of the main track which ran from Syria and Damascus to Jerusalem and Egypt through the center of Palestine. This is called "the way of the west" in contrast to the ether main route from Damascus to the south which passed through the district east of Jordan. The further specifications "Gilgal" and "the plains (rather, the oaks, compare Genesis 12:6 note) of Moreh," are added to define more particularly the section of Canaanites intended.
This Gilgal is perhaps to be found in Jiljilia, a large village about twelve miles south of Gerizim.
你们今日当知道 - 应译作：你们今日当承认（因为我并非与你们那不知道、也没有看见的儿女说话）耶和华的管教、他的威严等等。
这“管教”由许多大能的作为组成——既有惩罚、也有怜悯——神借此从埃及一路引领他们，直到应许之地的边界。