Deuteronomy 8:2

8:2 Remember the whole way by which he ¹  has brought you these forty years through the desert ²  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 8:19

8:19 Now if you forget the Lord your God at all ³  and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.

Deuteronomy 10:12

An Exhortation to Love Both God and People

10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, ⁴  to obey all his commandments, ⁵  to love him, to serve him ⁶  with all your mind and being, ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 11:13

11:13 Now, if you pay close attention ⁸  to my commandments that I am giving you today and love ⁹  the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being, ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 11:22

11:22 For if you carefully observe all of these commandments ¹¹  I am giving you ¹²  and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, ¹³  and remain loyal to him,

Deuteronomy 11:28

11:28 and the curse if you pay no attention ¹⁴  to his ¹⁵  commandments and turn from the way I am setting before ¹⁶  you today to pursue ¹⁷  other gods you have not known.

Deuteronomy 12:18

12:18 Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he ¹⁸  chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites ¹⁹  in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor. ²⁰ 

Deuteronomy 16:6

16:6 but you must sacrifice it ²¹  in the evening in ²²  the place where he ²³  chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 24:1

24:1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive ²⁴  in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

Deuteronomy 28:1

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ²⁵  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ²⁶  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:15

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

28:15 “But if you ignore ²⁷  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: ²⁸ 

Deuteronomy 28:58

The Curse of Covenant Termination

28:58 “If you refuse to obey ²⁹  all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,

[8:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:2]  ² tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.

[8:19]  ³ tn Heb “if forgetting, you forget.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis; the translation indicates this with the words “at all” (cf. KJV).

[10:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

[10:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “follow his ways exactly”; NLT “to live according to his will.”

[10:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

[10:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being”; NCV “with your whole being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[11:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “if hearing, you will hear.” The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute to emphasize the verbal idea. The translation renders this emphasis with the word “close.”

[11:13]  ⁸ tn Again, the Hebrew term אָהַב (’ahav) draws attention to the reciprocation of divine love as a condition or sign of covenant loyalty (cf. Deut 6:5).

[11:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[11:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “this commandment.” See note at Deut 5:30.

[11:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “commanding you to do it.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation and “to do it” has been left untranslated.

[11:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV); TEV “do everything he commands.”

[11:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “do not listen to,” that is, do not obey.

[11:28]  ¹² tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[11:28]  ¹³ tn Heb “am commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

[11:28]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “walk after”; NIV “by following”; NLT “by worshiping.” This is a violation of the first commandment, the most serious of the covenant violations (Deut 5:6-7).

[12:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:18]  ¹⁴ tn See note at Deut 12:12.

[12:18]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in all the sending forth of your hands.”

[16:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the Passover.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.

[16:6]  ¹⁶ tc The MT reading אֶל (’el, “unto”) before “the place” should, following Smr, Syriac, Targums, and Vulgate, be omitted in favor of ב (bet; בַּמָּקוֹם, bammaqom), “in the place.”

[16:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[24:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “nakedness of a thing.” The Hebrew phrase עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers here to some gross sexual impropriety (see note on “indecent” in Deut 23:14). Though the term usually has to do only with indecent exposure of the genitals, it can also include such behavior as adultery (cf. Lev 18:6-18; 20:11, 17, 20-21; Ezek 22:10; 23:29; Hos 2:10).

[28:1]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

[28:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

[28:15]  ²¹ tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”

[28:15]  ²² tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”

[28:58]  ²³ tn Heb “If you are not careful to do.”