Ulangan 11:1

Reiteration of the Call to Obedience

11:1 You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments ¹  at all times.

Ulangan 11:22

11:22 For if you carefully observe all of these commandments ²  I am giving you ³  and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, ⁴  and remain loyal to him,

¹ tn This collocation of technical terms for elements of the covenant text lends support to its importance and also signals a new section of paraenesis in which Moses will exhort Israel to covenant obedience. The Hebrew term מִשְׁמָרוֹת (mishmarot, “obligations”) sums up the three terms that follow – חֻקֹּת (khuqot), מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishppatim), and מִצְוֹת (mitsot).

² tn Heb “this commandment.” See note at Deut 5:30.

³ tn Heb “commanding you to do it.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation and “to do it” has been left untranslated.

⁴ tn Heb “walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV); TEV “do everything he commands.”