Deuteronomy 10:13
10:13 and to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes that I am giving 1 you today for your own good?
Deuteronomy 16:11
16:11 You shall rejoice before him 2 – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, 3 the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.
Deuteronomy 12:11
12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing 4 everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, 5 and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. 6
Deuteronomy 9:26
9:26 I prayed to him: 7 O, Lord God, 8 do not destroy your people, your valued property 9 that you have powerfully redeemed, 10 whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength. 11
Deuteronomy 11:21
11:21 so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself. 12
1 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation.
2 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.
3 tn Heb “gates.”
4 tn Heb “and it will be (to) the place where the Lord your God chooses to cause his name to dwell you will bring.”
5 tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”
6 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.
7 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.
8 tn Heb “Lord Lord” (אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה, ’adonay yÿhvih). The phrase is customarily rendered by Jewish tradition as “Lord God” (אֲדֹנָי אֱלֹהִים, ’adonay ’elohim). See also the note on the phrase “Lord God” in Deut 3:24.
9 tn Heb “your inheritance”; NLT “your special (very own NRSV) possession.” Israel is compared to landed property that one would inherit from his ancestors and pass on to his descendants.
10 tn Heb “you have redeemed in your greatness.”
11 tn Heb “by your strong hand.”
12 tn Heb “like the days of the heavens upon the earth,” that is, forever.