Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 4:23 
Context4:23 Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he 1 has forbidden 2 you.
Deuteronomy 4:31
Context4:31 (for he 3 is a merciful God), he will not let you down 4 or destroy you, for he cannot 5 forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Context7:9 So realize that the Lord your God is the true God, 6 the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully 7 with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Deuteronomy 9:9
Context9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there 8 forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
Deuteronomy 17:2
Context17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages 9 that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God 10 and breaks his covenant
Deuteronomy 29:21
Context29:21 The Lord will single him out 11 for judgment 12 from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.
Deuteronomy 29:25
Context29:25 Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 31:9
Context31:9 Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all Israel’s elders.
Deuteronomy 31:26
Context31:26 “Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,
Deuteronomy 33:9
Context33:9 He said to his father and mother, “I have not seen him,” 13
and he did not acknowledge his own brothers
or know his own children,
for they kept your word,
and guarded your covenant.
1 tn Heb “the
2 tn Heb “commanded.”
3 tn Heb “the
4 tn Heb “he will not drop you,” i.e., “will not abandon you” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
5 tn Or “will not.” The translation understands the imperfect verbal form to have an added nuance of capability here.
6 tn Heb “the God.” The article here expresses uniqueness; cf. TEV “is the only God”; NLT “is indeed God.”
7 tn Heb “who keeps covenant and loyalty.” The syndetic construction of בְּרִית (bÿrit) and חֶסֶד (khesed) should be understood not as “covenant” plus “loyalty” but as an adverbial construction in which חֶסֶד (“loyalty”) modifies the verb שָׁמַר (shamar, “keeps”).
8 tn Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
9 tn Heb “gates.”
10 tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the
11 tn Heb “set him apart.”
12 tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”
13 sn This statement no doubt alludes to the Levites’ destruction of their own fellow tribesmen following the golden calf incident (Exod 32:25-29).
