Deuteronomy 13:3

13:3 You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, ¹  for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him ²  with all your mind and being. ³ 

Deuteronomy 13:18

13:18 Thus you must obey the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving ⁴  you today and doing what is right ⁵  before him. ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 28:1

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ⁷  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ⁸  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

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 28:15

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

28:15 “But if you ignore ¹¹  the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: ¹² 

Deuteronomy 30:10

30:10 if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him ¹³  with your whole mind and being.

[13:3]  ¹ tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

[13:3]  ² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[13:3]  ³ tn Heb “all your heart and soul” (so NRSV, CEV, NLT); or “heart and being” (NCV “your whole being”). See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[13:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

[13:18]  ⁵ tc The LXX and Smr add “and good” to bring the phrase in line with a familiar cliché (cf. Deut 6:18; Josh 9:25; 2 Kgs 10:3; 2 Chr 14:1; etc.). This is an unnecessary and improper attempt to force a text into a preconceived mold.

[13:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord your God.” See note on the word “him” in v. 3.

[28:1]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

[28:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

[28:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”

[28:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”

[28:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”

[30:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.