8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments 1 I am giving 2 you today so that you may live, increase in number, 3 and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. 4
12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 8 has given you to possess. 9
1 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).
2 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).
3 tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”
4 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).
5 tn Heb “this commandment.” See note at Deut 5:30.
6 tn Heb “commanding you to do it.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation and “to do it” has been left untranslated.
7 tn Heb “walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV); TEV “do everything he commands.”
9 tn Heb “fathers.”
10 tn Heb “you must be careful to obey in the land the