Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 5:31 
Context5:31 But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, 1 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.” 2
Deuteronomy 31:21
Context31:21 Then when 3 many disasters and distresses overcome them 4 this song will testify against them, 5 for their 6 descendants will not forget it. 7 I know the 8 intentions they have in mind 9 today, even before I bring them 10 to the land I have promised.”
1 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.
2 tn Heb “to possess it” (so KJV, ASV); NLT “as their inheritance.”
3 tn Heb “Then it will come to pass that.”
4 tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
5 tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
6 tn Heb “his.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “their.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
7 tn Heb “it will not be forgotten from the mouth of his seed.”
8 tn Heb “his.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “their.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
9 tn Heb “which he is doing.”
10 tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
