Deuteronomy 8:19

8:19 Now if you forget the Lord your God at all ¹  and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.

Deuteronomy 11:13

11:13 Now, if you pay close attention ²  to my commandments that I am giving you today and love ³  the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being, ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 11:28

11:28 and the curse if you pay no attention ⁵  to his ⁶  commandments and turn from the way I am setting before ⁷  you today to pursue ⁸  other gods you have not known.

Deuteronomy 26:17

26:17 Today you have declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

Deuteronomy 28:13

28:13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his ⁹  commandments which I am urging ¹⁰  you today to be careful to do.

Deuteronomy 29:13

29:13 Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, ¹¹  just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors ¹²  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 32:46

32:46 he said to them, “Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.

¹ tn Heb “if forgetting, you forget.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis; the translation indicates this with the words “at all” (cf. KJV).

² tn Heb “if hearing, you will hear.” The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute to emphasize the verbal idea. The translation renders this emphasis with the word “close.”

³ tn Again, the Hebrew term אָהַב (’ahav) draws attention to the reciprocation of divine love as a condition or sign of covenant loyalty (cf. Deut 6:5).

⁴ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

³ tn Heb “do not listen to,” that is, do not obey.

⁴ tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁵ tn Heb “am commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

⁶ 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).

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

⁵ tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”

⁵ tn Heb “in order to establish you today to him for a people and he will be to you for God.” Verses 10-13 are one long sentence in Hebrew. The translation divides this into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 25).