Deuteronomy 31:28

31:28 Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

Deuteronomy 31:2

31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, ¹  and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’

Deuteronomy 6:1-2

Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles

6:1 Now these are the commandments, ²  statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed ³  6:2 and that you may so revere the Lord your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments ⁴  that I am giving ⁵  you – you, your children, and your grandchildren – all your lives, to prolong your days.

Deuteronomy 29:20

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger ⁶  will rage ⁷  against that man; all the curses ⁸  written in this scroll will fall upon him ⁹  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 30:2

30:2 Then if you and your descendants ¹¹  turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being ¹²  just as ¹³  I am commanding you today,

Deuteronomy 34:1

The Death of Moses

34:1 Then Moses ascended from the deserts of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. ¹⁴  The Lord showed him the whole land – Gilead to Dan,

Deuteronomy 34:1

The Death of Moses

34:1 Then Moses ascended from the deserts of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. ¹⁵  The Lord showed him the whole land – Gilead to Dan,

¹ tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”

² tn Heb “commandment.” The word מִצְוָה (mitsvah) again is in the singular, serving as a comprehensive term for the whole stipulation section of the book. See note on the word “commandments” in 5:31.

³ tn Heb “where you are going over to possess it” (so NASB); NRSV “that you are about to cross into and occupy.”

⁴ tn Here the terms are not the usual חֻקִּים (khuqqim) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim; as in v. 1) but חֻקֹּת (khuqqot, “statutes”) and מִצְוֹת (mitsot, “commandments”). It is clear that these terms are used interchangeably and that their technical precision ought not be overly stressed.

⁵ tn Heb “commanding.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation.

⁶ tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

⁷ tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

⁸ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

⁹ tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

¹¹ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “children.”

¹² tn Or “heart and soul” (also in vv. 6, 10).

¹³ tn Heb “according to all.”

¹⁴ sn For the geography involved, see note on the term “Pisgah” in Deut 3:17.

¹⁵ sn For the geography involved, see note on the term “Pisgah” in Deut 3:17.