Deuteronomy 1:30

1:30 The Lord your God is about to go ¹  ahead of you; he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt ² 

Deuteronomy 4:8

4:8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just ³  as this whole law ⁴  that I am about to share with ⁵  you today?

Deuteronomy 17:10

17:10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

Deuteronomy 20:18

20:18 so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship ⁶  their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 24:8

Respect for Human Dignity

24:8 Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely ⁷  all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do.

Deuteronomy 29:21

29:21 The Lord will single him out ⁸  for judgment ⁹  from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.

Deuteronomy 30:2

30:2 Then if you and your descendants ¹⁰  turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being ¹¹  just as ¹²  I am commanding you today,

¹ tn The Hebrew participle indicates imminent future action here, though some English versions treat it as a predictive future (“will go ahead of you,” NCV; cf. also TEV, CEV).

² tn Heb “according to all which he did for you in Egypt before your eyes.”

³ tn Or “pure”; or “fair”; Heb “righteous.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew phrase הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת (hattorah hazzo’t), in this context, refers specifically to the Book of Deuteronomy. That is, it is the collection of all the חֻקִּים (khuqqim, “statutes,” 4:1) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim, “ordinances,” 4:1) to be included in the covenant text. In a full canonical sense, of course, it pertains to the entire Pentateuch or Torah.

⁵ tn Heb “place before.”

⁵ tn Heb “to do according to all their abominations which they do for their gods.”

⁷ tn Heb “to watch carefully and to do.”

⁹ tn Heb “set him apart.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”

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.”