Deuteronomy 5:28

5:28 When the Lord heard you speaking to me, he ¹  said to me, “I have heard what these people have said to you – they have spoken well.

Deuteronomy 13:3

13:3 You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, ²  for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him ³  with all your mind and being. ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 17:8

Appeal to a Higher Court

17:8 If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, ⁵  legal claim, ⁶  or assault ⁷  – matters of controversy in your villages ⁸  – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 17:19

17:19 It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.

Deuteronomy 27:3

27:3 Then you must inscribe on them all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, ¹⁰  said to you.

Deuteronomy 28:58

The Curse of Covenant Termination

28:58 “If you refuse to obey ¹¹  all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,

Deuteronomy 29:1

Narrative Interlude

29:1 (28:69) ¹²  These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. ¹³ 

Deuteronomy 29:19

29:19 When such a person ¹⁴  hears the words of this oath he secretly ¹⁵  blesses himself ¹⁶  and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” ¹⁷  This will destroy ¹⁸  the watered ground with the parched. ¹⁹ 

Deuteronomy 31:12

31:12 Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 32:46

32:46 he said to them, “Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.

¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “He” in 5:3.

² tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

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

⁴ 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.

³ tn Heb “between blood and blood.”

⁴ tn Heb “between claim and claim.”

⁵ tn Heb “between blow and blow.”

⁶ tn Heb “gates.”

⁷ tc Several Greek recensions add “to place his name there,” thus completing the usual formula to describe the central sanctuary (cf. Deut 12:5, 11, 14, 18; 16:6). However, the context suggests that the local Levitical towns, and not the central sanctuary, are in mind.

⁴ tn Heb “fathers.”

⁵ tn Heb “If you are not careful to do.”

⁶ sn Beginning with 29:1, the verse numbers through 29:29 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 29:1 ET = 28:69 HT, 29:2 ET = 29:1 HT, 29:3 ET = 29:2 HT, etc., through 29:29 ET = 29:28 HT. With 30:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

⁷ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (which some English versions substitute here for clarity, cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the subject of the warning in v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “in his heart.”

⁹ tn Or “invokes a blessing on himself.” A formalized word of blessing is in view, the content of which appears later in the verse.

¹⁰ tn Heb “heart.”

¹¹ tn Heb “thus destroying.” For stylistic reasons the translation begins a new sentence here.

¹² tn Heb “the watered with the parched.” The word “ground” is implied. The exact meaning of the phrase is uncertain although it appears to be figurative. This appears to be a proverbial observation employing a figure of speech (a merism) suggesting totality. That is, the Israelite who violates the letter and even spirit of the covenant will harm not only himself but everything he touches – “the watered and the parched.” Cf. CEV “you will cause the rest of Israel to be punished along with you.”