Deuteronomy 5:33

5:33 Walk just as he 1  has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long 2  in the land you are going to possess.

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments 3  I am giving 4  you today so that you may live, increase in number, 5  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. 6 

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

2 tn Heb “may prolong your days”; NAB “may have long life”; TEV “will continue to live.”

3 tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

4 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

5 tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

6 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).