Deuteronomy 6:1

Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles

6:1 Now these are the commandments, ¹  statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed ² 

Deuteronomy 6:25

6:25 We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments ³  before the Lord our God, just as he demands.” ⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “commandment.” The word מִצְוָה (mitsvah) again is in the singular, serving as a comprehensive term for the whole stipulation section of the book. See note on the word “commandments” in 5:31.

² tn Heb “where you are going over to possess it” (so NASB); NRSV “that you are about to cross into and occupy.”

³ tn The term “commandment” (מִצְוָה, mitsvah), here in the singular, refers to the entire body of covenant stipulations.

⁴ tn Heb “as he has commanded us” (so NIV, NRSV).