Deuteronomy 2:4

2:4 Instruct ¹  these people as follows: ‘You are about to cross the border of your relatives ²  the descendants of Esau, ³  who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid of you, so watch yourselves carefully.

Deuteronomy 2:7

2:7 All along the way I, the Lord your God, ⁴  have blessed your every effort. ⁵  I have ⁶  been attentive to ⁷  your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have ⁸  been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”

Deuteronomy 3:21

3:21 I also commanded Joshua at the same time, “You have seen everything the Lord your God did to these two kings; he ⁹  will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going. ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 4:6

4:6 So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding ¹¹  to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise ¹²  people.”

Deuteronomy 6:1

Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles

6:1 Now these are the commandments, ¹³  statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed ¹⁴ 

Deuteronomy 6:24

6:24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him ¹⁵  so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

Deuteronomy 8:1-2

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ¹⁶  I am giving ¹⁷  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ¹⁸  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ¹⁹  8:2 Remember the whole way by which he ²⁰  has brought you these forty years through the desert ²¹  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 11:22

11:22 For if you carefully observe all of these commandments ²²  I am giving you ²³  and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, ²⁴  and remain loyal to him,

Deuteronomy 12:1

The Central Sanctuary

12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, ²⁵  has given you to possess. ²⁶ 

Deuteronomy 19:3

19:3 You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent ²⁷  of your land that the Lord your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.

Deuteronomy 20:16

Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations

20:16 As for the cities of these peoples that ²⁸  the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing ²⁹  to survive.

Deuteronomy 28:15

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

28:15 “But if you ignore ³⁰  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: ³¹ 

Deuteronomy 28:45

28:45 All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given ³²  you.

Deuteronomy 29:1

Narrative Interlude

29:1 (28:69) ³³  These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. ³⁴ 

Deuteronomy 30:1

The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation

30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses ³⁵  I have set before you, you will reflect upon them ³⁶  in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.

Deuteronomy 31:3

31:3 As for the Lord your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the Lord has said.

Deuteronomy 31:28

31:28 Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

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¹ tn Heb “command” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “charge the people as follows.”

² tn Heb “brothers”; NAB “your kinsmen.”

³ sn The descendants of Esau (Heb “sons of Esau”; the phrase also occurs in 2:8, 12, 22, 29). These are the inhabitants of the land otherwise known as Edom, south and east of the Dead Sea. Jacob’s brother Esau had settled there after his bitter strife with Jacob (Gen 36:1-8). “Edom” means “reddish,” probably because of the red sandstone of the region, but also by popular etymology because Esau, at birth, was reddish (Gen 25:25).

⁴ tn The Hebrew text does not have the first person pronoun; it has been supplied for purposes of English style (the Lord is speaking here).

⁵ tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”

⁶ tn Heb “he has.” This has been converted to first person in the translation in keeping with English style.

⁷ tn Heb “known” (so ASV, NASB); NAB “been concerned about.”

⁸ tn Heb “the Lord your God has.” This has been replaced in the translation by the first person pronoun (“I”) in keeping with English style.

⁹ tn Heb “the Lord.” The translation uses the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

¹⁰ tn Heb “which you are crossing over there.”

¹¹ tn Heb “it is wisdom and understanding.”

¹² tn Heb “wise and understanding.”

¹³ tn Heb “commandment.” The word מִצְוָה (mitsvah) again is in the singular, serving as a comprehensive term for the whole stipulation section of the book. See note on the word “commandments” in 5:31.

¹⁴ tn Heb “where you are going over to possess it” (so NASB); NRSV “that you are about to cross into and occupy.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “the Lord our God.” See note on the word “his” in v. 17.

¹⁶ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

¹⁷ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

¹⁸ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

²⁰ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

²¹ tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.

²² tn Heb “this commandment.” See note at Deut 5:30.

²³ 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.

²⁴ tn Heb “walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV); TEV “do everything he commands.”

²⁵ tn Heb “fathers.”

²⁶ tn Heb “you must be careful to obey in the land the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days which you live in the land.” This adverbial statement modifies “to obey,” not “to possess,” so the order in the translation has been rearranged to make this clear.

²⁷ tn Heb “border.”

²⁸ tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”

²⁹ tn Heb “any breath.”

³⁰ tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”

³¹ tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”

³² tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”

³³ sn Beginning with 29:1, the verse numbers through 29:29 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 29:1 ET = 28:69 HT, 29:2 ET = 29:1 HT, 29:3 ET = 29:2 HT, etc., through 29:29 ET = 29:28 HT. With 30:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

³⁴ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (which some English versions substitute here for clarity, cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

³⁵ tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”

³⁶ tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”