Deuteronomy 5:30

5:30 Go and tell them, ‘Return to your tents!’

Deuteronomy 6:9

6:9 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and gates. ¹ 

Deuteronomy 10:16

10:16 Therefore, cleanse ²  your heart and stop being so stubborn! ³ 

Deuteronomy 12:17

12:17 You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.

Deuteronomy 15:19

Giving God the Best

15:19 You must set apart ⁴  for the Lord your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 18:13

18:13 You must be blameless before the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:11

28:11 The Lord will greatly multiply your children, ⁵  the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he ⁶  promised your ancestors ⁷  he would give you.

Deuteronomy 30:6

30:6 The Lord your God will also cleanse ⁸  your heart and the hearts of your descendants ⁹  so that you may love him ¹⁰  with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

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¹ sn The Hebrew term מְזוּזֹת (mÿzuzot) refers both to the door frames and to small cases attached on them containing scripture texts (always Deut 6:4-9 and 11:13-21; and sometimes the decalogue; Exod 13:1-10, 11-16; and Num 10:35-36). See J. H. Tigay, Deuteronomy (JPSTC), 443-44.

² tn Heb “circumcise the foreskin of” (cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV). Reference to the Abrahamic covenant prompts Moses to recall the sign of that covenant, namely, physical circumcision (Gen 17:9-14). Just as that act signified total covenant obedience, so spiritual circumcision (cleansing of the heart) signifies more internally a commitment to be pliable and obedient to the will of God (cf. Deut 30:6; Jer 4:4; 9:26).

³ tn Heb “your neck do not harden again.” See note on the word “stubborn” in Deut 9:6.

⁴ tn Heb “sanctify” (תַּקְדִּישׁ, taqdish), that is, put to use on behalf of the Lord.

⁵ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).

⁸ tn Heb “circumcise” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “will give you and your descendents obedient hearts.” See note on the word “cleanse” in Deut 10:16.

⁹ tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).

¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.