Deuteronomy 5:3

5:3 He ¹  did not make this covenant with our ancestors ²  but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

Deuteronomy 7:9

7:9 So realize that the Lord your God is the true God, ³  the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully ⁴  with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Deuteronomy 9:11

9:11 Now at the end of the forty days and nights the Lord presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:15

9:15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it ⁵  was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

Deuteronomy 29:9

The Present Covenant Setting

29:9 “Therefore, keep the terms ⁶  of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.

Deuteronomy 29:21

29:21 The Lord will single him out ⁷  for judgment ⁸  from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.

¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

² tn Heb “fathers.”

³ tn Heb “the God.” The article here expresses uniqueness; cf. TEV “is the only God”; NLT “is indeed God.”

⁴ tn Heb “who keeps covenant and loyalty.” The syndetic construction of בְּרִית (bÿrit) and חֶסֶד (khesed) should be understood not as “covenant” plus “loyalty” but as an adverbial construction in which חֶסֶד (“loyalty”) modifies the verb שָׁמַר (shamar, “keeps”).

⁵ tn Heb “the mountain.” The translation uses a pronoun for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁷ tn Heb “words.”

⁹ tn Heb “set him apart.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”