¹ tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV).

² 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.

³ tn Heb “to possess it” (so KJV, ASV); NLT “as their inheritance.”

⁴ tn Heb “the sacred thing.” The term הַקֹּדֶשׁ (haqqodesh) likely refers to an offering normally set apart for the Lord but, as a third-year tithe, given on this occasion to people in need. Sometimes this is translated as “the sacred portion” (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV), but that could sound to a modern reader as if a part of the house were being removed and given away.

⁵ tn Heb “according to all your commandment that you commanded me.” This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

⁷ tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”

⁸ tc A number of LXX mss insert before this verse, “if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,” thus translating אֲשֶׁר (’asher) as “which” and the rest as “I am commanding you today, to love,” etc., “then you will live,” etc.

⁹ tn Heb “which you are going there to possess it.” This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.