Deuteronomy 4:25

Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience

4:25 After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, ¹  if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind ²  and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him, ³ 

Deuteronomy 17:10

17:10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

Deuteronomy 20:18

20:18 so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship ⁴  their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 24:8

Respect for Human Dignity

24:8 Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely ⁵  all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do.

Deuteronomy 26:16

Narrative Interlude

26:16 Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul. ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 29:9

The Present Covenant Setting

29:9 “Therefore, keep the terms ⁷  of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.

Deuteronomy 31:4

31:4 The Lord will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

[4:25]  ¹ tn Heb “have grown old in the land,” i.e., been there for a long time.

[4:25]  ² tn Heb “a form of anything.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, TEV “an idol.”

[4:25]  ³ tn The infinitive construct is understood here as indicating the result, not the intention, of their actions.

[20:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “to do according to all their abominations which they do for their gods.”

[24:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “to watch carefully and to do.”

[26:16]  ¹⁰ tn Or “mind and being”; cf. NCV “with your whole being”; TEV “obey them faithfully with all your heart.”

[29:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “words.”