Deuteronomy 5:13

5:13 You are to work and do all your tasks in six days,

Deuteronomy 16:12

16:12 Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.

Deuteronomy 23:23

23:23 Whatever you vow, you must be careful to do what you have promised, such as what you have vowed to the Lord your God as a freewill offering.

Deuteronomy 6:18

6:18 Do whatever is proper ¹  and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he ²  promised your ancestors,

Deuteronomy 10:1

The Opportunity to Begin Again

10:1 At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark. ³ 

Deuteronomy 12:27

12:27 You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your other sacrifices ⁴  you must pour out on his ⁵  altar while you eat the meat.

Deuteronomy 16:1

The Passover-Unleavened Bread Festival

16:1 Observe the month Abib ⁶  and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month ⁷  he ⁸  brought you out of Egypt by night.

Deuteronomy 16:10

16:10 Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks ⁹  before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering ¹⁰  that you will bring, in proportion to how he ¹¹  has blessed you.

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 22:8

22:8 If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail ¹²  around your roof to avoid being culpable ¹³  in the event someone should fall from it.

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. ¹⁴ 

Deuteronomy 27:10

27:10 You must obey him ¹⁵  and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”

Deuteronomy 30:8

30:8 You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving ¹⁶  you today.

Deuteronomy 3:2

3:2 The Lord, however, said to me, “Don’t be afraid of him because I have already given him, his whole army, ¹⁷  and his land to you. You will do to him exactly what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon.”

[6:18]  ¹ tn Heb “upright.”

[6:18]  ² tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on the word “his” in v. 17.

[10:1]  ¹ tn Or “chest” (so NIV, CEV); NLT “sacred chest”; TEV “wooden box.” This chest was made of acacia wood; it is later known as the ark of the covenant.

[12:27]  ¹ sn These other sacrifices would be so-called peace or fellowship offerings whose ritual required a different use of the blood from that of burnt (sin and trespass) offerings (cf. Lev 3; 7:11-14, 19-21).

[12:27]  ² tn Heb “on the altar of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[16:1]  ¹ sn The month Abib, later called Nisan (Neh 2:1; Esth 3:7), corresponds to March-April in the modern calendar.

[16:1]  ² tn Heb “in the month Abib.” The demonstrative “that” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[16:1]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[16:10]  ¹ tn The Hebrew phrase חַג שָׁבֻעוֹת (khag shavu’ot) is otherwise known in the OT (Exod 23:16) as קָצִיר (qatsir, “harvest”) and in the NT as πεντηχοστή (penthcosth, “Pentecost”).

[16:10]  ² tn Heb “the sufficiency of the offering of your hand.”

[16:10]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[22:8]  ¹ tn Or “a parapet” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “a battlement”; NLT “a barrier.”

[22:8]  ² tn Heb “that you not place bloodshed in your house.”

[26:16]  ¹ tn Or “mind and being”; cf. NCV “with your whole being”; TEV “obey them faithfully with all your heart.”

[27:10]  ¹ tn Heb “listen to the voice of the Lord your God.” Here “listen” (NAB “hearken”) means “obey” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB). The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[30:8]  ¹ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I now enjoin on you.”

[3:2]  ¹ tn Heb “people.”