Deuteronomy 5:6

The Ten Commandments

5:6 “I am the Lord your God, he who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery.

Deuteronomy 5:32

5:32 Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!

Deuteronomy 6:5

6:5 You must love ¹  the Lord your God with your whole mind, ²  your whole being, ³  and all your strength. ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 6:25

6:25 We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments ⁵  before the Lord our God, just as he demands.” ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 7:18

7:18 you must not fear them. You must carefully recall ⁷  what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt,

Deuteronomy 7:20

7:20 Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets ⁸  among them until the very last ones who hide from you ⁹  perish.

Deuteronomy 8:5

8:5 Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, ¹⁰  the Lord your God disciplines you.

Deuteronomy 10:14

10:14 The heavens – indeed the highest heavens – belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it.

Deuteronomy 10:20

10:20 Revere the Lord your God, serve him, be loyal to him and take oaths only in his name.

Deuteronomy 11:27

11:27 the blessing if you take to heart ¹¹  the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today,

Deuteronomy 12:9

12:9 for you have not yet come to the final stop ¹²  and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 15:20

15:20 You and your household must eat them annually before the Lord your God in the place he ¹³  chooses.

Deuteronomy 16:5

16:5 You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages ¹⁴  that the Lord your God is giving you,

Deuteronomy 18:7

18:7 and serves in the name of the Lord his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.

Deuteronomy 20:4

20:4 for the Lord your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory.” ¹⁵ 

Deuteronomy 20:13

20:13 The Lord your God will deliver it over to you ¹⁶  and you must kill every single male by the sword.

Deuteronomy 26:4

26:4 The priest will then take the basket from you ¹⁷  and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:47

The Curse of Military Siege

28:47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

Deuteronomy 29:12

29:12 so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today. ¹⁸ 

Deuteronomy 32:3

32:3 For I will proclaim the name ¹⁹  of the Lord;

you must acknowledge the greatness of our God.

Deuteronomy 32:18

32:18 You have forgotten ²⁰  the Rock who fathered you,

and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

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¹ tn The verb אָהַב (’ahav, “to love”) in this setting communicates not so much an emotional idea as one of covenant commitment. To love the Lord is to be absolutely loyal and obedient to him in every respect, a truth Jesus himself taught (cf. John 14:15). See also the note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37.

² tn Heb “heart.” In OT physiology the heart (לֵב, לֵבָב; levav, lev) was considered the seat of the mind or intellect, so that one could think with one’s heart. See A. Luc, NIDOTTE 2:749-54.

³ tn Heb “soul”; “being.” Contrary to Hellenistic ideas of a soul that is discrete and separate from the body and spirit, OT anthropology equated the “soul” (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh) with the person himself. It is therefore best in most cases to translate נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) as “being” or the like. See H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 10-25; D. Fredericks, NIDOTTE 3:133-34.

⁴ sn For NT variations on the Shema see Matt 22:37-39; Mark 12:29-30; Luke 10:27.

⁵ tn The term “commandment” (מִצְוָה, mitsvah), here in the singular, refers to the entire body of covenant stipulations.

⁶ tn Heb “as he has commanded us” (so NIV, NRSV).

⁷ tn Heb “recalling, you must recall.” The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute before the finite verb for emphasis. Cf. KJV, ASV “shalt well remember.”

⁸ tn The meaning of the term translated “hornets” (צִרְעָה, tsir’ah) is debated. Various suggestions are “discouragement” (HALOT 1056-57 s.v.; cf. NEB, TEV, CEV “panic”; NCV “terror”) and “leprosy” (J. H. Tigay, Deuteronomy [JPSTC], 360, n. 33; cf. NRSV “the pestilence”), as well as “hornet” (BDB 864 s.v.; cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT). The latter seems most suitable to the verb שָׁלַח (shalakh, “send”; cf. Exod 23:28; Josh 24:12).

⁹ tn Heb “the remnant and those who hide themselves.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “just as a man disciplines his son.” The Hebrew text reflects the patriarchal idiom of the culture.

¹¹ tn Heb “listen to,” that is, obey.

¹² tn Heb “rest.”

¹³ tn Heb “the Lord.” The translation uses a pronoun for stylistic reasons. See note on “he” in 15:4.

¹⁴ tn Heb “gates.”

¹⁵ tn Or “to save you” (so KJV, NASB, NCV); or “to deliver you.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “to your hands.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “your hand.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “for you to pass on into the covenant of the Lord your God and into his oath, which the Lord your God is cutting with you today.”

¹⁹ tc Smr and Tg read “in the name.”

²⁰ tc The Hebrew text is corrupt here; the translation follows the suggestion offered in HALOT 1477 s.v. שׁיה. Cf. NASB, NLT “You neglected”; NIV “You deserted”; NRSV “You were unmindful of.”