Deuteronomy 11:13

11:13 Now, if you pay close attention 1  to my commandments that I am giving you today and love 2  the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being, 3 

Deuteronomy 11:22

11:22 For if you carefully observe all of these commandments 4  I am giving you 5  and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, 6  and remain loyal to him,

Deuteronomy 11:28

11:28 and the curse if you pay no attention 7  to his 8  commandments and turn from the way I am setting before 9  you today to pursue 10  other gods you have not known.

Deuteronomy 12:11

12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing 11  everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, 12  and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. 13 

1 tn Heb “if hearing, you will hear.” The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute to emphasize the verbal idea. The translation renders this emphasis with the word “close.”

2 tn Again, the Hebrew term אָהַב (’ahav) draws attention to the reciprocation of divine love as a condition or sign of covenant loyalty (cf. Deut 6:5).

3 tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

4 tn Heb “this commandment.” See note at Deut 5:30.

5 tn Heb “commanding you to do it.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation and “to do it” has been left untranslated.

6 tn Heb “walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV); TEV “do everything he commands.”

7 tn Heb “do not listen to,” that is, do not obey.

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

9 tn Heb “am commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

10 tn Heb “walk after”; NIV “by following”; NLT “by worshiping.” This is a violation of the first commandment, the most serious of the covenant violations (Deut 5:6-7).

10 tn Heb “and it will be (to) the place where the Lord your God chooses to cause his name to dwell you will bring.”

11 tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”

12 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.