Deuteronomy 4:30

4:30 In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, ¹  if you return to the Lord your God and obey him ² 

Deuteronomy 26:17

26:17 Today you have declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

Deuteronomy 30:2

30:2 Then if you and your descendants ³  turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being ⁴  just as ⁵  I am commanding you today,

Deuteronomy 9:23

9:23 And when he ⁶  sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God ⁷  and would neither believe nor obey him.

Deuteronomy 30:20

30:20 I also call on you ⁸  to love the Lord your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually ⁹  in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

¹ sn The phrase is not used here in a technical sense for the eschaton, but rather refers to a future time when Israel will be punished for its sin and experience exile. See Deut 31:29.

² tn Heb “hear his voice.” The expression is an idiom meaning “obey,” occurring in Deut 8:20; 9:23; 13:18; 21:18, 20; 26:14, 17; 27:10; 28:1-2, 15, 45, 62; 30:2, 8, 10, 20.

³ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “children.”

⁴ tn Or “heart and soul” (also in vv. 6, 10).

⁵ tn Heb “according to all.”

⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

⁶ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.

⁷ tn The words “I also call on you” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text vv. 19-20 are one long sentence, which the translation divides into two.

⁸ tn Heb “he is your life and the length of your days to live.”