Deuteronomy 11:1

Deuteronomy 11:1. Therefore The conclusion of the preceding verses.

thou shalt love See on Deuteronomy 6:5.

keep his charge -Only here in Dt.; often in P (esp. Numbers), but usually in a technical sense, with genitive of the object to be kept, as Numbers 1:53; Numbers 3:28: "Jehovah's charge" (of a specific duty), Leviticus 8:35; Leviticus 18:30; Leviticus 22:9; Numbers 9:19; Numbers 9:23; in a more general sense, as here, Genesis 26:5 (JE); Joshua 22:3 (D 2); 1 Kings 2:3 (Deut.)" (Driver). There is therefore no conclusive proof that this v. is secondary. Yet the recurrence of a phrase so characteristic of P after another in the previous v. is significant.

statutes, judgements, commandments See above.