Deuteronomy 5:29

5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey ¹  all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 12:28

12:28 Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 13:16

13:16 You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza ²  and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin ³  forever – it must never be rebuilt again.

¹ tn Heb “keep” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

² tn Heb “street.”

³ tn Heb “mound”; NAB “a heap of ruins.” The Hebrew word תֵּל (tel) refers to this day to a ruin represented especially by a built-up mound of dirt or debris (cf. Tel Aviv, “mound of grain”).