Deuteronomy 5:29
5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey 1 all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
Deuteronomy 6:24
6:24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him 2 so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.
Deuteronomy 9:23
9:23 And when he 3 sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God 4 and would neither believe nor obey him.
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, 5 to obey all his commandments, 6 to love him, to serve him 7 with all your mind and being, 8
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, 9 has given you to possess. 10
Deuteronomy 28:1
The Covenant Blessings
28:1 “If you indeed 11 obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving 12 you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.
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 13 you.
Deuteronomy 28:58
The Curse of Covenant Termination
28:58 “If you refuse to obey 14 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,
Deuteronomy 29:29
29:29 Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants 15 forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 30:10
30:10 if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him 16 with your whole mind and being.
Deuteronomy 30:12-13
30:12 It is not in heaven, as though one must say, “Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”
30:13 And it is not across the sea, as though one must say, “Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”
Deuteronomy 31:12
31:12 Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.
1 tn Heb “keep” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “the Lord our God.” See note on the word “his” in v. 17.
3 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.
4 tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.
5 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.
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 Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.
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 “fathers.”
10 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.
11 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”
12 tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).
13 tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”
14 tn Heb “If you are not careful to do.”
15 tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NIV, NRSV “children.”
16 tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.