Ulangan 4:1

The Privileges of the Covenant

4:1 Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances ¹  I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, ²  is giving you.

Ulangan 4:13-14

4:13 And he revealed to you the covenant ³  he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, ⁴  writing them on two stone tablets. 4:14 Moreover, at that same time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess. ⁵ 

Ulangan 6:24

6:24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him ⁶  so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

Ulangan 12:28

12:28 Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Ulangan 17:10

17:10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

Ulangan 18:9

Provision for Prophetism

18:9 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

Ulangan 24:16

24:16 Fathers must not be put to death for what their children ⁷  do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

Ulangan 28:58

The Curse of Covenant Termination

28:58 “If you refuse to obey ⁸  all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,

Ulangan 29:29

29:29 Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants ⁹  forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.

Ulangan 30:12-13

30:12 It is not in heaven, as though one must say, “Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 30:13 And it is not across the sea, as though one must say, “Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

Ulangan 32:27

32:27 But I fear the reaction ¹⁰  of their enemies,

for ¹¹  their adversaries would misunderstand

and say, “Our power is great, ¹² 

and the Lord has not done all this!”’

[4:1]  ¹ tn These technical Hebrew terms (חֻקִּים [khuqqim] and מִשְׁפָּטִים [mishpatim]) occur repeatedly throughout the Book of Deuteronomy to describe the covenant stipulations to which Israel had been called to subscribe (see, in this chapter alone, vv. 1, 5, 6, 8). The word חֻקִּים derives from the verb חֹק (khoq, “to inscribe; to carve”) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim) from שָׁפַט (shafat, “to judge”). They are virtually synonymous and are used interchangeably in Deuteronomy.

[4:1]  ² tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 31, 37).

[4:13]  ³ sn This is the first occurrence of the word בְּרִית (bÿrit, “covenant”) in the Book of Deuteronomy but it appears commonly hereafter (4:23, 31; 5:2, 3; 7:9, 12; 8:18; 9:9, 10, 11, 15; 10:2, 4, 5, 8; 17:2; 29:1, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 21, 25; 31:9, 16, 20, 25, 26; 33:9). Etymologically, it derives from the notion of linking or yoking together. See M. Weinfeld, TDOT 2:255.

[4:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “the ten words.”

[4:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “to which you are crossing over to possess it.”

[6:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “the Lord our God.” See note on the word “his” in v. 17.

[24:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB; twice in this verse). Many English versions, including the KJV, read “children” here.

[28:58]  ⁸ tn Heb “If you are not careful to do.”

[29:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NIV, NRSV “children.”

[32:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “anger.”

[32:27]  ¹¹ tn Heb “lest.”

[32:27]  ¹² tn Heb “Our hand is high.” Cf. NAB “Our own hand won the victory.”