Deuteronomy 28:2

28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance ¹  if you obey the Lord your God:

Deuteronomy 30:17

30:17 However, if you ²  turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

Deuteronomy 13:8

13:8 You must not give in to him or even listen to him; do not feel sympathy for him or spare him or cover up for him.

Deuteronomy 13:12

Punishment of Community Idolatry

13:12 Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you as a place to live, that

Deuteronomy 15:5

15:5 if you carefully obey ³  him ⁴  by keeping ⁵  all these commandments that I am giving ⁶  you today.

Deuteronomy 28:49

28:49 The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth ⁷  as the eagle flies, ⁸  a nation whose language you will not understand,

Deuteronomy 13:3

13:3 You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, ⁹  for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him ¹⁰  with all your mind and being. ¹¹ 

Deuteronomy 13:18

13:18 Thus you must obey the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving ¹²  you today and doing what is right ¹³  before him. ¹⁴ 

Deuteronomy 28:1

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ¹⁵  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ¹⁶  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

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 ¹⁷  commandments which I am urging ¹⁸  you today to be careful to do.

Deuteronomy 28:15

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

28:15 “But if you ignore ¹⁹  the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: ²⁰ 

Deuteronomy 30:10

30:10 if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him ²¹  with your whole mind and being.

¹ tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”

² tn Heb “your heart,” as a metonymy for the person.

³ tn Heb “if listening you listen to the voice of.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “carefully.” The idiom “listen to the voice” means “obey.”

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 15:4.

⁵ tn Heb “by being careful to do.”

⁶ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB); NAB “which I enjoin you today.”

⁴ tn Heb “from the end of the earth.”

⁵ tn Some translations understand this to mean “like an eagle swoops down” (e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT), comparing the swift attack of an eagle to the attack of the Israelites’ enemies.

⁵ tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁷ tn Heb “all your heart and soul” (so NRSV, CEV, NLT); or “heart and being” (NCV “your whole being”). See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

⁶ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

⁷ tc The LXX and Smr add “and good” to bring the phrase in line with a familiar cliché (cf. Deut 6:18; Josh 9:25; 2 Kgs 10:3; 2 Chr 14:1; etc.). This is an unnecessary and improper attempt to force a text into a preconceived mold.

⁸ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord your God.” See note on the word “him” in v. 3.

⁷ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

⁸ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

⁸ tn Heb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

⁹ tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”

⁹ tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.