Deuteronomy 4:9

Reminder of the Horeb Covenant

4:9 Again, however, pay very careful attention, ¹  lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 10:12

An Exhortation to Love Both God and People

10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, ²  to obey all his commandments, ³  to love him, to serve him ⁴  with all your mind and being, ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 11:13

11:13 Now, if you pay close attention ⁶  to my commandments that I am giving you today and love ⁷  the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being, ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 12:15

Regulations for Profane Slaughter

12:15 On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you ⁹  in all your villages. ¹⁰  Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Deuteronomy 12:21

12:21 If the place he ¹¹  chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he ¹²  has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages ¹³  just as you wish.

Deuteronomy 13:3

13:3 You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, ¹⁴  for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him ¹⁵  with all your mind and being. ¹⁶ 

Deuteronomy 13:6

False Prophets in the Family

13:6 Suppose your own full brother, ¹⁷  your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods ¹⁸  that neither you nor your ancestors ¹⁹  have previously known, ²⁰ 

Deuteronomy 18:6

18:6 Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will ²¹  from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, ²²  to the place the Lord chooses

Deuteronomy 19:6

19:6 Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, ²³  and kill him, ²⁴  though this is not a capital case ²⁵  since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

Deuteronomy 22:26

22:26 You must not do anything to the young woman – she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person ²⁶  and murders him,

Deuteronomy 24:15

24:15 You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Deuteronomy 28:65

28:65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.

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 ²⁷  with your whole mind and being.

¹ tn Heb “watch yourself and watch your soul carefully.”

² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

³ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “follow his ways exactly”; NLT “to live according to his will.”

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

⁵ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being”; NCV “with your whole being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

³ 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.”

⁴ 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).

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

⁴ tn Heb “only in all the desire of your soul you may sacrifice and eat flesh according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given to you.”

⁵ tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB; likewise in vv. 17, 18).

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

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

⁷ tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in your own community.”

⁶ tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁸ 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.

⁷ tn Heb “your brother, the son of your mother.” In a polygamous society it was not rare to have half brothers and sisters by way of a common father and different mothers.

⁸ tn In the Hebrew text these words are in the form of a brief quotation: “entice you secretly saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods.’”

⁹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 17).

¹⁰ tn Heb “which you have not known, you or your fathers.” (cf. KJV, ASV; on “fathers” cf. v. 18).

⁸ tn Heb “according to all the desire of his soul.”

⁹ tn Or “sojourning.” The verb used here refers to living temporarily in a place, not settling down.

⁹ tn Heb “and overtake him, for the road is long.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “smite with respect to life,” that is, fatally.

¹¹ tn Heb “no judgment of death.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

¹¹ tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.