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 9:16

9:16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; ³  you had quickly turned aside from the way he ⁴  had commanded you!

Deuteronomy 19:3

19:3 You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent ⁵  of your land that the Lord your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.

Deuteronomy 1:22

1:22 So all of you approached me and said, “Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”

Deuteronomy 1:31

1:31 and in the desert, where you saw him ⁶  carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”

Deuteronomy 8:2

8:2 Remember the whole way by which he ⁷  has brought you these forty years through the desert ⁸  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 9:12

9:12 And he said to me, “Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.” ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 11:28

11:28 and the curse if you pay no attention ¹⁰  to his ¹¹  commandments and turn from the way I am setting before ¹²  you today to pursue ¹³  other gods you have not known.

Deuteronomy 14:24

14:24 When he ¹⁴  blesses you, if the ¹⁵  place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

Deuteronomy 19:6

19:6 Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, ¹⁶  and kill him, ¹⁷  though this is not a capital case ¹⁸  since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

Deuteronomy 31:29

31:29 For I know that after I die you will totally ¹⁹  corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly ²⁰  before the Lord, inciting him to anger because of your actions.” ²¹ 

Deuteronomy 13:5

13:5 As for that prophet or dreamer, ²²  he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the Lord your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within. ²³ 

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 On the phrase “metal calf,” see note on the term “metal image” in v. 12.

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

⁵ tn Heb “border.”

⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun (“him”) has been employed in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁰ tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.

¹¹ tc Heb “a casting.” The MT reads מַסֵּכָה (massekhah, “a cast thing”) but some mss and Smr add עֵגֶל (’egel, “calf”), “a molten calf” or the like (Exod 32:8). Perhaps Moses here omits reference to the calf out of contempt for it.

¹³ tn Heb “do not listen to,” that is, do not obey.

¹⁴ tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

¹⁵ tn Heb “am commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

¹⁶ tn Heb “walk after”; NIV “by following”; NLT “by worshiping.” This is a violation of the first commandment, the most serious of the covenant violations (Deut 5:6-7).

¹⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “He” in 14:2.

¹⁶ tn The Hebrew text includes “way is so far from you that you are unable to carry it because the.” These words have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because they are redundant.

¹⁷ tn Heb “and overtake him, for the road is long.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “smite with respect to life,” that is, fatally.

¹⁹ tn Heb “no judgment of death.”

¹⁹ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “totally.”

²⁰ tn Heb “do the evil.”

²¹ tn Heb “the work of your hands.”

²¹ tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

²² tn Heb “your midst” (so NAB, NRSV). The severity of the judgment here (i.e., capital punishment) is because of the severity of the sin, namely, high treason against the Great King. Idolatry is a violation of the first two commandments (Deut 5:6-10) as well as the spirit and intent of the Shema (Deut 6:4-5).