Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

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 

Deuteronomy 11:22

11:22 For if you carefully observe all of these commandments 5  I am giving you 6  and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, 7  and remain loyal to him,

Deuteronomy 12:1

The Central Sanctuary

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 Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days which you live in the land.” This adverbial statement modifies “to obey,” not “to possess,” so the order in the translation has been rearranged to make this clear.