Deuteronomy 5:33

5:33 Walk just as he ¹  has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long ²  in the land you are going to possess.

Deuteronomy 10:12-13

An Exhortation to Love Both God and People

10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, ³  to obey all his commandments, ⁴  to love him, to serve him ⁵  with all your mind and being, ⁶  10:13 and to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes that I am giving ⁷  you today for your own good?

Deuteronomy 10:2

10:2 I will write on the tablets the same words ⁸  that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

Deuteronomy 6:16

Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively

6:16 You must not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah. ⁹ 

Nehemiah 10:29

10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders ¹⁰  and enter into a curse and an oath ¹¹  to adhere to ¹²  the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey ¹³  carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, ¹⁴  along with his ordinances and his statutes.

Psalms 78:10

78:10 They did not keep their covenant with God, ¹⁵ 

and they refused to obey ¹⁶  his law.

Ezekiel 36:27

36:27 I will put my Spirit within you; ¹⁷  I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes ¹⁸  and carefully observe my regulations. ¹⁹ 

Daniel 9:10

9:10 We have not obeyed ²⁰  the LORD our God by living according to ²¹  his laws ²²  that he set before us through his servants the prophets.

¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

² tn Heb “may prolong your days”; NAB “may have long life”; TEV “will continue to live.”

³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

⁴ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “follow his ways exactly”; NLT “to live according to his will.”

⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

⁶ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being”; NCV “with your whole being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

⁷ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation.

⁸ sn The same words. The care with which the replacement copy must be made underscores the importance of verbal precision in relaying the Lord’s commandments.

⁹ sn The place name Massah (מַסָּה, massah) derives from a root (נָסָה, nasah) meaning “to test; to try.” The reference here is to the experience in the Sinai desert when Moses struck the rock to obtain water (Exod 17:1-2). The complaining Israelites had, thus, “tested” the Lord, a wickedness that gave rise to the naming of the place (Exod 17:7; cf. Deut 9:22; 33:8).

¹⁰ tn Heb “the nobles.”

¹¹ tn The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”

¹² tn Heb “to walk in.”

¹³ tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

¹⁴ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

¹⁵ tn Heb “the covenant of God.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “walk in.”

¹⁷ tn Or “in the midst of you.” The word “you” is plural.

¹⁸ tn Heb “and I will do that which in my statutes you will walk.” The awkward syntax (verb “to do, act” + accusative sign + relative clause + prepositional phrase + second person verb) is unique, though Eccl 3:14 contains a similar construction. In the last line of that verse we read that “God acts so that (relative pronoun) they fear before him.” However, unlike Ezek 36:27, the statement has no accusative sign before the relative pronoun.

¹⁹ tn Heb “and my laws you will guard and you will do them.” Jer 31:31-34 is parallel to this passage.

²⁰ tn Heb “paid attention to the voice of,” which is an idiomatic expression for obedience (cf. NASB “nor have we obeyed the voice of”).

²¹ tn Heb “to walk in.”

²² tc The LXX and Vulgate have the singular.