It shall be with him: it is the copy that has been made; “He will keep the copy….”

He shall read in it all the days of his life: the king is to read some portion of the book every day. So we may translate “every day he must read [from] it.”

He may learn to fear the LORD his God: learn may also be rendered as “teach himself to…” or “cause himself to….” For fear see 4.10.

By keeping … and doing: again, a repetition for emphasis; “by learning and obeying,” “by putting into practice.”

All the words of this law and these statutes: these are not two separate sets of laws, but the same torah, that is, all the laws and … statutes (see 4.1) in this torah. To obey the Torah is to fear God. Good News Translation has “obey faithfully everything that is commanded in it.”

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Deuteronomy. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2000. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .