10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, 5 to obey all his commandments, 6 to love him, to serve him 7 with all your mind and being, 8
1 tc The translation follows the LXX in reading the first person pronoun. The MT, followed by many English versions, has a second person masculine singular pronoun, “your.”
2 tn Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”
3 tn Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”
4 tn Heb “into your hand.”
5 tn Heb “the
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.”
7 tn Heb “the
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.
9 tn Heb “and overtake him, for the road is long.”
10 tn Heb “smite with respect to life,” that is, fatally.
11 tn Heb “no judgment of death.”