Ulangan 10:12

An Exhortation to Love Both God and People

10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, ¹  to obey all his commandments, ²  to love him, to serve him ³  with all your mind and being, ⁴ 

Yosua 1:7

1:7 Make sure you are ⁵  very strong and brave! Carefully obey ⁶  all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! ⁷  Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful ⁸  in all you do. ⁹ 

[10:12]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

[10:12]  ² tn Heb “to walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “follow his ways exactly”; NLT “to live according to his will.”

[10:12]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

[10:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being”; NCV “with your whole being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Or “Only be.”

[1:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “so you can be careful to do.” The use of the infinitive לִשְׁמֹר (lishmor, “to keep”) after the imperatives suggests that strength and bravery will be necessary for obedience. Another option is to take the form לִשְׁמֹר as a vocative lamed (ל) with imperative (see Isa 38:20 for an example of this construction), which could be translated, “Indeed, be careful!”

[1:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “commanded you.”

[1:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[1:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “in all which you go.”