Deuteronomy 11:1

Reiteration of the Call to Obedience

11:1 You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments ¹  at all times.

Deuteronomy 4:30

4:30 In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, ²  if you return to the Lord your God and obey him ³ 

Deuteronomy 6:24

6:24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him ⁴  so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

Deuteronomy 18:5

18:5 For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand ⁵  and serve in his name ⁶  permanently.

Deuteronomy 28:33

28:33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

Deuteronomy 4:40

4:40 Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth ⁷  today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.

Deuteronomy 5:29

5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey ⁸  all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

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, ⁹  has given you to possess. ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 14:23

14:23 In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, ¹¹  your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.

Deuteronomy 19:9

19:9 and then you are careful to observe all these commandments ¹²  I am giving ¹³  you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities ¹⁴  to these three.

Deuteronomy 28:29

28:29 You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; ¹⁵  you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.

Deuteronomy 31:13

31:13 Then their children, who have not known this law, ¹⁶  will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Deuteronomy 31:29

31:29 For I know that after I die you will totally ¹⁷  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 ¹⁸  before the Lord, inciting him to anger because of your actions.” ¹⁹ 

Deuteronomy 4:10

4:10 You ²⁰  stood before the Lord your God at Horeb and he ²¹  said to me, “Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. ²²  Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”

[11:1]  ¹ tn This collocation of technical terms for elements of the covenant text lends support to its importance and also signals a new section of paraenesis in which Moses will exhort Israel to covenant obedience. The Hebrew term מִשְׁמָרוֹת (mishmarot, “obligations”) sums up the three terms that follow – חֻקֹּת (khuqot), מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishppatim), and מִצְוֹת (mitsot).

[4:30]  ² sn The phrase is not used here in a technical sense for the eschaton, but rather refers to a future time when Israel will be punished for its sin and experience exile. See Deut 31:29.

[4:30]  ³ tn Heb “hear his voice.” The expression is an idiom meaning “obey,” occurring in Deut 8:20; 9:23; 13:18; 21:18, 20; 26:14, 17; 27:10; 28:1-2, 15, 45, 62; 30:2, 8, 10, 20.

[6:24]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord our God.” See note on the word “his” in v. 17.

[18:5]  ⁴ tc Smr and some Greek texts add “before the Lord your God” to bring the language into line with a formula found elsewhere (Deut 10:8; 2 Chr 29:11). This reading is not likely to be original, however.

[18:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “the name of the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[4:40]  ⁵ tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV).

[5:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “keep” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[12:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “fathers.”

[12:1]  ⁸ 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.

[14:23]  ⁸ tn This refers to wine in the early stages of fermentation. In its later stages it becomes wine (יַיִן, yayin) in its mature sense.

[19:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “all this commandment.” This refers here to the entire covenant agreement of the Book of Deuteronomy as encapsulated in the Shema (Deut 6:4-5).

[19:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today.”

[19:9]  ¹¹ sn You will add three more cities. Since these are alluded to nowhere else and thus were probably never added, this must be a provision for other cities of refuge should they be needed (cf. v. 8). See P. C. Craigie, Deuteronomy (NICOT), 267.

[28:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you will not cause your ways to prosper.”

[31:13]  ¹¹ tn The phrase “this law” is not in the Hebrew text, but English style requires an object for the verb here. Other translations also supply the object which is otherwise implicit (cf. NIV “who do not know this law”; TEV “who have never heard the Law of the Lord your God”).

[31:29]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “totally.”

[31:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “do the evil.”

[31:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the work of your hands.”

[4:10]  ¹³ tn The text begins with “(the) day (in) which.” In the Hebrew text v. 10 is subordinate to v. 11, but for stylistic reasons the translation treats v. 10 as an independent clause, necessitating the omission of the subordinating temporal phrase at the beginning of the verse.

[4:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 4:3.

[4:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “my words.” See v. 13; in Hebrew the “ten commandments” are the “ten words.”