Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 11:7-8 
Context11:7 I am speaking to you 1 because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the Lord!
The Abundance of the Land of Promise
11:8 Now pay attention to all the commandments 2 I am giving 3 you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed, 4
1 tn On the addition of these words in the translation see note on “They did not see” in v. 3.
2 tn Heb “the commandment.” The singular מִצְוָה (mitsvah, “commandment”) speaks here as elsewhere of the whole corpus of covenant stipulations in Deuteronomy (cf. 6:1, 25; 7:11; 8:1).
3 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in vv. 13, 27).
4 tn Heb “which you are crossing over there to possess it.”
