Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 4:5-6 
Context4:5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in 1 the land you are about to enter and possess. 4:6 So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding 2 to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise 3 people.”
Deuteronomy 4:14
Context4:14 Moreover, at that same time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess. 4
Deuteronomy 5:1
Context5:1 Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them: 5 “Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!
Deuteronomy 6:1-2
Context6:1 Now these are the commandments, 6 statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed 7 6:2 and that you may so revere the Lord your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments 8 that I am giving 9 you – you, your children, and your grandchildren – all your lives, to prolong your days.
Deuteronomy 6:24
Context6:24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him 10 so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.
Deuteronomy 12:1
Context12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 11 has given you to possess. 12
Deuteronomy 28:15
Context28:15 “But if you ignore 13 the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: 14
Deuteronomy 28:45
Context28:45 All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given 15 you.
Deuteronomy 30:10
Context30:10 if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him 16 with your whole mind and being.
1 tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).
2 tn Heb “it is wisdom and understanding.”
3 tn Heb “wise and understanding.”
4 tn Heb “to which you are crossing over to possess it.”
5 tn Heb “and Moses called to all Israel and he said to them”; NAB, NASB, NIV “Moses summoned (convened NRSV) all Israel.”
6 tn Heb “commandment.” The word מִצְוָה (mitsvah) again is in the singular, serving as a comprehensive term for the whole stipulation section of the book. See note on the word “commandments” in 5:31.
7 tn Heb “where you are going over to possess it” (so NASB); NRSV “that you are about to cross into and occupy.”
8 tn Here the terms are not the usual חֻקִּים (khuqqim) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim; as in v. 1) but חֻקֹּת (khuqqot, “statutes”) and מִצְוֹת (mitsot, “commandments”). It is clear that these terms are used interchangeably and that their technical precision ought not be overly stressed.
9 tn Heb “commanding.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation.
10 tn Heb “the
11 tn Heb “fathers.”
12 tn Heb “you must be careful to obey in the land the
13 tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”
14 tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”
15 tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”
16 tn Heb “to the
