Deuteronomy 6:25

6:25 We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments ¹  before the Lord our God, just as he demands.” ² 

Deuteronomy 11:27

11:27 the blessing if you take to heart ³  the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today,

Deuteronomy 18:21

18:21 Now if you say to yourselves, ⁴  ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ ⁵  –

Deuteronomy 20:11

20:11 If it accepts your terms ⁶  and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 21:11

21:11 if you should see among them ⁸  an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,

Deuteronomy 21:22

Disposition of a Criminal’s Remains

21:22 If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse ⁹  on a tree,

Deuteronomy 24:12

24:12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering. ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 30:17

30:17 However, if you ¹¹  turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

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¹ tn The term “commandment” (מִצְוָה, mitsvah), here in the singular, refers to the entire body of covenant stipulations.

² tn Heb “as he has commanded us” (so NIV, NRSV).

³ tn Heb “listen to,” that is, obey.

⁴ tn Heb “in your heart.”

⁵ tn Heb “know the word which the Lord has not spoken.” The issue here is not understanding the meaning of the message, but distinguishing a genuine prophetic word from a false one.

⁶ tn Heb “if it answers you peace.”

⁷ tn Heb “become as a vassal and will serve you.” The Hebrew term translated slaves (מַס, mas) refers either to Israelites who were pressed into civil service, especially under Solomon (1 Kgs 5:27; 9:15, 21; 12:18), or (as here) to foreigners forced as prisoners of war to become slaves to Israel. The Gibeonites exemplify this type of servitude (Josh 9:3-27; cf. Josh 16:10; 17:13; Judg 1:28, 30-35; Isa 31:8; Lam 1:1).

⁸ tn Heb “the prisoners.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

⁹ tn Heb “him.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “may not lie down in his pledge.” What is in view is the use of clothing as guarantee for the repayment of loans, a matter already addressed elsewhere (Deut 23:19-20; 24:6; cf. Exod 22:25-26; Lev 25:35-37). Cf. NAB “you shall not sleep in the mantle he gives as a pledge”; NRSV “in the garment given you as the pledge.”

¹¹ tn Heb “your heart,” as a metonymy for the person.