Ulangan 5:1

The Opening Exhortation

5:1 Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them: ¹  “Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!

Ulangan 11:8

The Abundance of the Land of Promise

11:8 Now pay attention to all the commandments ²  I am giving ³  you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed, ⁴ 

Ulangan 13:18

13:18 Thus you must obey the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving ⁵  you today and doing what is right ⁶  before him. ⁷ 

[5:1]  ¹ tn Heb “and Moses called to all Israel and he said to them”; NAB, NASB, NIV “Moses summoned (convened NRSV) all Israel.”

[11:8]  ² tn Heb “the commandment.” The singular מִצְוָה (mitsvah, “commandment”) speaks here as elsewhere of the whole corpus of covenant stipulations in Deuteronomy (cf. 6:1, 25; 7:11; 8:1).

[11:8]  ³ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in vv. 13, 27).

[11:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “which you are crossing over there to possess it.”

[13:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

[13:18]  ⁶ tc The LXX and Smr add “and good” to bring the phrase in line with a familiar cliché (cf. Deut 6:18; Josh 9:25; 2 Kgs 10:3; 2 Chr 14:1; etc.). This is an unnecessary and improper attempt to force a text into a preconceived mold.

[13:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord your God.” See note on the word “him” in v. 3.