Deuteronomy 1:12

1:12 But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

Deuteronomy 1:14

1:14 You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.

Deuteronomy 1:18

Instructions at Kadesh Barnea

1:18 So I instructed you at that time regarding everything you should do.

Deuteronomy 1:29

1:29 So I responded to you, “Do not be terrified ¹  of them!

Deuteronomy 5:10

5:10 but I show covenant faithfulness ²  to the thousands ³  who choose ⁴  me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 6:6

Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles

6:6 These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

Deuteronomy 7:11

7:11 So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.

Deuteronomy 9:17

9:17 I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, ⁵  and shattered them before your very eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:24

9:24 You have been rebelling against him ⁶  from the very first day I knew you!

Deuteronomy 11:15

11:15 I will provide pasture ⁷  for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

Deuteronomy 11:26

Anticipation of a Blessing and Cursing Ceremony

11:26 Take note – I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 11:32

11:32 Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.

Deuteronomy 15:5

15:5 if you carefully obey ⁹  him ¹⁰  by keeping ¹¹  all these commandments that I am giving ¹²  you today.

Deuteronomy 19:7

19:7 Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

Deuteronomy 27:10

27:10 You must obey him ¹³  and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”

Deuteronomy 29:14

29:14 It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

Deuteronomy 30:8

30:8 You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving ¹⁴  you today.

Deuteronomy 32:1

Invocation of Witnesses

32:1 Listen, O heavens, and I will speak;

hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

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¹ tn Heb “do not tremble and do not be afraid.” Two synonymous commands are combined for emphasis.

² tn This theologically rich term (חֶסֶד, khesed) describes God’s loyalty to those who keep covenant with him. Sometimes it is used synonymously with בְּרִית (bÿrit, “covenant”; Deut 7:9), and sometimes interchangeably with it (Deut 7:12). See H.-J. Zobel, TDOT 5:44-64.

³ tc By a slight emendation (לַאֲלּוּפִים [la’allufim] for לַאֲלָפִים [la’alafim]) “clans” could be read in place of the MT reading “thousands.” However, no ms or versional evidence exists to support this emendation.

tn Another option is to understand this as referring to “thousands (of generations) of those who love me” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). See Deut 7:9.

⁴ tn Heb “love.” See note on the word “reject” in v. 9.

⁵ tn The Hebrew text includes “from upon my two hands,” but as this seems somewhat obvious and redundant, it has been left untranslated for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

⁷ tn Heb “grass in your field.”

⁸ sn A blessing and a curse. Every extant treaty text of the late Bronze Age attests to a section known as the “blessings and curses,” the former for covenant loyalty and the latter for covenant breach. Blessings were promised rewards for obedience; curses were threatened judgments for disobedience. In the Book of Deuteronomy these are fully developed in 27:1–28:68. Here Moses adumbrates the whole by way of anticipation.

⁹ tn Heb “if listening you listen to the voice of.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “carefully.” The idiom “listen to the voice” means “obey.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 15:4.

¹¹ tn Heb “by being careful to do.”

¹² tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB); NAB “which I enjoin you today.”

¹³ 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.

¹⁴ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I now enjoin on you.”