Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 2:19 
Context2:19 But when you come close to the Ammonites, do not harass or provoke them because I am not giving you any of the Ammonites’ land as your possession; I have already given it to Lot’s descendants 1 as their possession.
Deuteronomy 4:1
Context4:1 Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances 2 I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 3 is giving you.
Deuteronomy 4:40
Context4:40 Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth 4 today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.
Deuteronomy 5:31
Context5:31 But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, 5 statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them.” 6
Deuteronomy 12:11
Context12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing 7 everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, 8 and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. 9
Deuteronomy 12:28
Context12:28 Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 28:13
Context28:13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his 10 commandments which I am urging 11 you today to be careful to do.
Deuteronomy 30:16
Context30:16 What 12 I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess. 13
1 sn Lot’s descendants. See note on this phrase in Deut 2:9.
2 tn These technical Hebrew terms (חֻקִּים [khuqqim] and מִשְׁפָּטִים [mishpatim]) occur repeatedly throughout the Book of Deuteronomy to describe the covenant stipulations to which Israel had been called to subscribe (see, in this chapter alone, vv. 1, 5, 6, 8). The word חֻקִּים derives from the verb חֹק (khoq, “to inscribe; to carve”) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim) from שָׁפַט (shafat, “to judge”). They are virtually synonymous and are used interchangeably in Deuteronomy.
3 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 31, 37).
4 tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV).
5 tn Heb “commandment.” The MT actually has the singular (הַמִּצְוָה, hammitsvah), suggesting perhaps that the following terms (חֻקִּים [khuqqim] and מִשְׁפָּטִים [mishpatim]) are in epexegetical apposition to “commandment.” That is, the phrase could be translated “the entire command, namely, the statutes and ordinances.” This would essentially make מִצְוָה (mitsvah) synonymous with תּוֹרָה (torah), the usual term for the whole collection of law.
6 tn Heb “to possess it” (so KJV, ASV); NLT “as their inheritance.”
7 tn Heb “and it will be (to) the place where the Lord your God chooses to cause his name to dwell you will bring.”
8 tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”
9 tn Heb “the
10 tn Heb “the
11 tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”
12 tc A number of LXX
13 tn Heb “which you are going there to possess it.” This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.
