Deuteronomy 11 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 11:8, 11:13, 11:14, 11:15, 11:16, 11:18, 11:24, 11:30, 11:31
Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.
Deuteronomy 11
Love and Obey the Lord
A Call to Remembrance
Verse 11:1 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:1 Love YHWH your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:1 Love the Lord your God, and always keep His charges, His ordinances, and His judgments.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Greek omits the separate phrase His commandments from this list.
Verse 11:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:2 Know today that I am addressing you, not your children, who neither knew nor saw the discipline of YHWH your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:2 Know today that I am addressing you, not your children, who neither knew nor saw the discipline of the Lord your God, His mighty deeds, His mighty hand, and His uplifted arm,
Classification & Notes
Different
Greek has mighty deeds where Hebrew has greatness. I am addressing you supplies the implied sense of the unfinished construction in both; compare verse 7.
Verse 11:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:3 His signs and His deeds that He did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:3 His signs and His wonders that He did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land,
Classification & Notes
Different
Greek explicitly characterizes the deeds as wonders.
Verse 11:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:4 and what He did to Egypt's army, its horses and chariots, when He made the waters of the Sea of Reeds overwhelm them as they pursued you, and YHWH destroyed them, as to this day,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:4 and what He did to the Egyptians' army, their chariots and cavalry, when He made the waters of the Red Sea overwhelm them as they pursued you, and the Lord destroyed them, as to this day,
Classification & Notes
Different
Greek reverses horses and chariots, uses a collective term for horse forces, and names the Red Sea rather than literally Sea of Reeds.
Verse 11:5 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:5 and what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:5 and what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place,
Classification & Notes
Same
The wilderness experience agrees.
Verse 11:6 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:6 and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and everything belonging to them, in the midst of all Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:6 and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and all their possessions with them, in the midst of all Israel.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Hebrew's everything at their feet and Greek's possessions with them both express comprehensive loss; neither column imports Korah's name into this verse.
Verse 11:7 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:7 Your own eyes saw all the great work YHWH did.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:7 Your own eyes have seen all the great works the Lord did for you today.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Greek adds for you today and uses plural works.
The Promise of the Land
Verse 11:8 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:8 Keep the whole commandment I command you today, so that you may be strong and enter and possess the land you are crossing over to possess,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:8 Keep all His commandments that I command you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and inherit the land for which you are crossing the Jordan to inherit it,
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Greek replaces being strong with living and multiplying, names the Jordan, and explicitly calls the commandments His. The stated benefit of obedience differs.
Verse 11:9 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:9 and so that you may prolong your days on the land YHWH swore to your fathers to give them and their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:9 so that you may prolong your days on the land the Lord swore to your fathers to give them and their offspring after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Greek adds after them to the offspring formula.
Verse 11:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:10 For the land you are entering to possess is unlike the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a vegetable garden.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:10 For the land you are entering to inherit is unlike the land of Egypt from which you came out, where they sow seed and water it with their feet, like a vegetable garden.
Classification & Notes
Different
Hebrew addresses Israel's former practice as you; Greek describes the cultivators as they. Both retain the foot-watering expression without specifying an irrigation device.
Verse 11:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:11 The land you are crossing over to possess is a land of hills and valleys; it drinks water from the rain of heaven,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:11 The land you are entering to inherit is a mountainous and level land; it drinks water from the rain of heaven,
Classification & Notes
Different
Greek describes level country where Hebrew specifies valleys. Both contrast rain-fed land with Egypt.
Verse 11:12 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:12 a land YHWH your God cares for. YHWH your God's eyes are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the year's end.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:12 a land the Lord your God watches over. The Lord your God's eyes are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the year's end.
Classification & Notes
Same
Both describe continuous divine care throughout the year.
Verse 11:13 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:13 If you diligently obey My commandments that I command you today, loving YHWH your God and serving Him with all your heart and all your soul,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:13 If you diligently obey all His commandments that I command you today, loving the Lord your God and serving Him with all your heart and all your soul,
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Hebrew has My commandments; Greek has all His commandments. The Greek maintains Moses speaking about God, where the Hebrew shifts toward direct divine speech.
Verse 11:14 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:14 I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the late rain, and you will gather your grain, new wine, and oil.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:14 He will give rain to your land in season, early and late, and you will bring in your grain, wine, and oil.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
The giver speaks as I in Hebrew but is described as He in Greek, continuing the difference in speaking voice from verse 13.
Verse 11:15 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:15 I will give grass in your field for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:15 He will give fodder in your fields for your livestock. When you have eaten and been satisfied,
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Hebrew continues I will give; Greek has He will give and links eating and satisfaction grammatically to the warning in verse 16.
Verse 11:16 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:16 Guard yourselves, lest your heart be deceived and you turn aside, serve other gods, and bow down to them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:16 take care, lest your heart grow expansive and you transgress, serve other gods, and bow down to them.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Hebrew warns of an enticed or deceived heart; Greek describes the heart becoming enlarged or expansive, here a dangerous response to satisfaction. Deceived has not been silently substituted into Greek.
Verse 11:17 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:17 Then YHWH's anger would burn against you; He would shut the heavens so there would be no rain, the ground would yield no produce, and you would quickly perish from the good land YHWH is giving you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:17 Then the Lord would become angry with you and shut the heavens; there would be no rain, the land would yield no fruit, and you would quickly perish from the good land the Lord gave you.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Greek describes the land as already given; Hebrew presents it as being given. The sanctions agree.
Instruction and Retention
Verse 11:18 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:18 Put these words of mine upon your heart and soul; bind them as a sign on your hand, and let them be frontlets between your eyes.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:18 Put these words into your heart and soul; fasten them as a sign on your hand, and let it be immovable before your eyes.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Greek omits of mine and renders frontlets between your eyes as something immovable before your eyes. The distinct physical wording remains visible; this alone does not settle later practice.
Verse 11:19 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:19 Teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, walk on the road, lie down, and rise.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:19 Teach them to your children, to speak of them while sitting at home, walking on the road, lying down, and rising.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Greek makes speaking the content of the instruction and uses plural participles; the everyday settings agree.
Verse 11:20 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:20 Write them on your house's doorposts and on your gates,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:20 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and of your gates,
Classification & Notes
Similar
Greek makes houses plural and associates doorposts with both houses and gates.
Verse 11:21 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:21 so that your days and your children's days may multiply on the land YHWH swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:21 so that you and your children may have long days on the land the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
Classification & Notes
Same
Both compare enduring life in the land with the duration of heaven over earth.
Verse 11:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:22 If you diligently keep this whole commandment that I command you to do, loving YHWH your God, walking in all His ways, and clinging to Him,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:22 If you diligently heed all these commandments that I command you today to do, loving the Lord our God, walking in all His ways, and clinging to Him,
Classification & Notes
Different
Greek adds today, has our God rather than your God, and uses hearing rather than keeping in the opening condition.
Verse 11:23 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:23 YHWH will dispossess all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:23 The Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will inherit great nations stronger than you.
Classification & Notes
Similar
The conquest is expressed through dispossession in Hebrew and expulsion followed by inheritance in Greek.
Verse 11:24 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:24 Every place the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your boundary will extend from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the Euphrates River, to the western sea.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:24 Every place the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your boundaries will extend from the wilderness and Anti-Lebanon, from the great river, the Euphrates River, to the western sea.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Greek names Anti-Lebanon rather than Lebanon, affecting the geographical description, and adds great to the river.
Verse 11:25 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:25 No one will stand before you. YHWH your God will put fear and dread of you over all the land you tread, as He told you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:25 No one will stand before you. The Lord your God will put dread and fear of you over all the land you tread, as the Lord told you.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Greek repeats the Lord in the final clause and reverses the paired fear terms.
The Blessing and the Curse
Verse 11:26 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:26 Look, today I set before you a blessing and a curse:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:26 Look, today I set before you a blessing and a curse:
Classification & Notes
Same
The two alternatives agree.
Verse 11:27 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:27 the blessing, when you obey the commandments of YHWH your God that I command you today,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today,
Classification & Notes
Similar
Greek marks the blessing explicitly as conditional; Hebrew uses a relative or explanatory connective, understood here as when.
Verse 11:28 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of YHWH your God and turn aside from the way I command you today, following other gods you have not known.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:28 and the curses, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, all that I command you today, and wander from the way I commanded you, going to serve other gods you have not known.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Greek has plural curses, expands the commandment clause, and explicitly describes service to other gods.
Verse 11:29 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:29 When YHWH your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:29 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are crossing over to inherit, place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Classification & Notes
Same
The mountains and their assigned blessing and curse agree.
Verse 11:30 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:30 Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:30 Look, are these not beyond the Jordan, behind the road toward the sunset, in the land of Canaan inhabited toward the west, adjoining Gilgal, near the lofty oak?
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Greek gives west instead of Arabah, adjacency instead of opposite, and a lofty oak instead of the oaks of Moreh. Both say sunset; sunrise in the draft's Greek was incorrect.
Verse 11:31 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:31 For you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess the land YHWH your God is giving you. You will possess it and dwell in it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:31 For you are crossing the Jordan to enter and inherit the land the Lord your God gives you as an allotment for all time. You will inherit it and dwell in it.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Greek adds the explicit allotment and enduring-duration formula for all time, literally all the days.
Verse 11:32 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
11:32 Take care to practice all the statutes and judgments I set before you today.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
11:32 Take care to practice all His ordinances and these judgments I set before you today.
Classification & Notes
Different
Greek explicitly identifies the ordinances as His and qualifies the judgments as these.