16:15 You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the Lord your God in the place he 1 chooses, for he 2 will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do; 3 so you will indeed rejoice!
Deuteronomy 28:13
28:13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his 4 commandments which I am urging 5 you today to be careful to do.
1 tnHeb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 16:1.
2 tnHeb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.
3 tnHeb “in all the work of your hands” (so NASB, NIV); NAB, NRSV “in all your undertakings.”
4 tnHeb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
5 tnHeb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”