Deuteronomy 28:2

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

Deuteronomy 8:20

8:20 Just like the nations the Lord is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you ²  because you would not obey him. ³ 

Deuteronomy 15:5

15:5 if you carefully obey ⁴  him ⁵  by keeping ⁶  all these commandments that I am giving ⁷  you today.

Deuteronomy 21:18

21:18 If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail, ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 27:10

27:10 You must obey him ⁹  and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”

Deuteronomy 28:62

28:62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, ¹⁰  because you will have disobeyed ¹¹  the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 30:8

30:8 You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving ¹²  you today.

Deuteronomy 13:18

13:18 Thus you must obey the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving ¹³  you today and doing what is right ¹⁴  before him. ¹⁵ 

Deuteronomy 26:14

26:14 I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; ¹⁶  I have obeyed you ¹⁷  and have done everything you have commanded me.

Deuteronomy 28:1

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ¹⁸  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ¹⁹  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:15

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

28:15 “But if you ignore ²⁰  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: ²¹ 

Deuteronomy 28:45

28:45 All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given ²²  you.

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 ²³  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 “so you will perish.”

³ tn Heb “listen to the voice of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

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 “and he does not listen to them.”

⁵ tn Heb “listen to the voice of the Lord your God.” Here “listen” (NAB “hearken”) means “obey” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB). The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁶ tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

⁷ tn Heb “have not listened to the voice of.”

⁷ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I now enjoin on you.”

⁸ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

⁹ 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.

¹⁰ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord your God.” See note on the word “him” in v. 3.

⁹ sn These practices suggest overtones of pagan ritual, all of which the confessor denies having undertaken. In Canaan they were connected with fertility practices associated with harvest time. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 335-36.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord my God.” See note on “he” in 26:2.

¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

¹¹ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

¹¹ tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”

¹² tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”

¹² tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”

¹³ tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.