Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 4:5 
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.
Deuteronomy 6:1
ContextExhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles
6:1 Now these are the commandments, 2 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 3
Deuteronomy 31:9
ContextThe Deposit of the Covenant Text
31:9 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.
1 tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).
2 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.
3 tn Heb “where you are going over to possess it” (so NASB); NRSV “that you are about to cross into and occupy.”
