Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 2:18 
Context2:18 “Today you are going to cross the border of Moab, that is, of Ar. 1
Deuteronomy 6:6
Context6:6 These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,
Deuteronomy 7:11
Context7:11 So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.
Deuteronomy 11:26
Context11:26 Take note – I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 2
Deuteronomy 11:32
Context11:32 Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.
Deuteronomy 15:5
Context15:5 if you carefully obey 3 him 4 by keeping 5 all these commandments that I am giving 6 you today.
Deuteronomy 27:10
Context27:10 You must obey him 7 and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”
Deuteronomy 30:8
Context30:8 You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving 8 you today.
1 sn Ar. See note on this word in Deut 2:9.
2 sn A blessing and a curse. Every extant treaty text of the late Bronze Age attests to a section known as the “blessings and curses,” the former for covenant loyalty and the latter for covenant breach. Blessings were promised rewards for obedience; curses were threatened judgments for disobedience. In the Book of Deuteronomy these are fully developed in 27:1–28:68. Here Moses adumbrates the whole by way of anticipation.
3 tn Heb “if listening you listen to the voice of.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “carefully.” The idiom “listen to the voice” means “obey.”
4 tn Heb “the
5 tn Heb “by being careful to do.”
6 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB); NAB “which I enjoin you today.”
7 tn Heb “listen to the voice of the
8 tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I now enjoin on you.”
