Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 6:6 
Context6:6 These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,
Deuteronomy 7:11
Context7:11 So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.
Deuteronomy 11:26
Context11:26 Take note – I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 1
Deuteronomy 11:32
Context11:32 Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.
Deuteronomy 15:5
Context15:5 if you carefully obey 2 him 3 by keeping 4 all these commandments that I am giving 5 you today.
Deuteronomy 19:7
Context19:7 Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
Deuteronomy 27:10
Context27:10 You must obey him 6 and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”
Deuteronomy 29:14
Context29:14 It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,
Deuteronomy 30:8
Context30:8 You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving 7 you today.
1 sn A blessing and a curse. Every extant treaty text of the late Bronze Age attests to a section known as the “blessings and curses,” the former for covenant loyalty and the latter for covenant breach. Blessings were promised rewards for obedience; curses were threatened judgments for disobedience. In the Book of Deuteronomy these are fully developed in 27:1–28:68. Here Moses adumbrates the whole by way of anticipation.
2 tn Heb “if listening you listen to the voice of.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “carefully.” The idiom “listen to the voice” means “obey.”
3 tn Heb “the
4 tn Heb “by being careful to do.”
5 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB); NAB “which I enjoin you today.”
6 tn Heb “listen to the voice of the
7 tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I now enjoin on you.”
