¹tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”
²tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”
³tn Or “heart and soul.”
⁴tn Heb “according to all.”
⁵tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
⁶tn Heb “are at the farthest edge of the heavens.” The Hebrew term <y]m^v* (v*m^y]<) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
⁷tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.
⁸tn Heb “fathers” (also later in this verse and in vv. 9, 20).
⁹tn Heb “circumcise.” See note on the word “cleanse” in Deut 10:16.
¹⁰tn Heb “seed.”
¹¹tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.
¹²tn Or “mind and being.”
¹³tn Heb “commanding,” redundant in English.
¹⁴tc The MT reads “hand” (singular). Most versions read the plural.
¹⁵tn Heb “the fruit of your womb.”
¹⁶tn Heb “return and.” The Hebrew verb is used idiomatically here to indicate the repetition of the following action.
¹⁷tn The Hebrew text includes “for good.”
¹⁸tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.
¹⁹tn Or “whole heart and soul.”
²⁰tn Heb “commanding,” redundant in English.
²¹tn Heb “heart.”
²²tc A number of LXX mss insert before this verse, “if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,” thus translating rv#a& as “which” and the rest as “I am commanding you today, to love,” etc., “then you will live,” etc.
²³tn Heb “which you are going there to possess it.”
²⁴tn Heb “your heart,” as a metonymy for the person.
²⁵tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “certainly.”
²⁶tn Heb “to go there to possess it.”
²⁷tn The words “I also call on you” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text vv. 19-20 are one long sentence, which the translation divides into two.
²⁸tn Heb “he is your life and the length of your days to live.”