Deuteronomy 4:23

4:23 Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he ¹  has forbidden ²  you.

Deuteronomy 7:12

Promises of Good for Covenant Obedience

7:12 If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the Lord your God will faithfully keep covenant with you ³  as he promised ⁴  your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 8:18

8:18 You must remember the Lord your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, ⁵  even as he has to this day.

Deuteronomy 9:9

9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there ⁶  forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

Deuteronomy 10:8

10:8 At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi ⁷  to carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand before the Lord to serve him, and to formulate blessings ⁸  in his name, as they do to this very day.

Deuteronomy 17:2

17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ⁹  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ¹⁰  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 31:9

The Deposit of the Covenant Text

31:9 Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all Israel’s elders.

Deuteronomy 31:16

31:16 Then the Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die, ¹¹  and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they ¹²  are going. They ¹³  will reject ¹⁴  me and break my covenant that I have made with them. ¹⁵ 

Deuteronomy 31:20

31:20 For after I have brought them ¹⁶  to the land I promised to their ¹⁷  ancestors – one flowing with milk and honey – and they ¹⁸  eat their fill ¹⁹  and become fat, then they ²⁰  will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.

[4:23]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 4:3.

[4:23]  ² tn Heb “commanded.”

[7:12]  ³ tn Heb “will keep with you the covenant and loyalty.” On the construction used here, see v. 9.

[7:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “which he swore on oath.” The relative pronoun modifies “covenant,” so one could translate “will keep faithfully the covenant (or promise) he made on oath to your ancestors.”

[8:18]  ⁵ tc Smr and Lucian add “Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” the standard way of rendering this almost stereotypical formula (cf. Deut 1:8; 6:10; 9:5, 27; 29:13; 30:20; 34:4). The MT’s harder reading presumptively argues for its originality, however.

[9:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[10:8]  ⁹ sn The Lord set apart the tribe of Levi. This was not the initial commissioning of the tribe of Levi to this ministry (cf. Num 3:11-13; 8:12-26), but with Aaron’s death it seemed appropriate to Moses to reiterate Levi’s responsibilities. There is no reference in the Book of Numbers to this having been done, but the account of Eleazar’s succession to the priesthood there (Num 20:25-28) would provide a setting for this to have occurred.

[10:8]  ¹⁰ sn To formulate blessings. The most famous example of this is the priestly “blessing formula” of Num 6:24-26.

[17:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:2]  ¹² tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

[31:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “lie down with your fathers” (so NASB); NRSV “ancestors.”

[31:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they,” which is necessary in any case in the translation because of contemporary English style. The third person singular also occurs in the Hebrew text twice more in this verse, three times in v. 17, once in v. 18, five times in v. 20, and four times in v. 21. Each time it is translated as third person plural for stylistic reasons.

[31:16]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:16]  ¹⁶ tn Or “abandon” (TEV, NLT).

[31:16]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “his.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “their.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:20]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:20]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and are satisfied.”

[31:20]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.