Translation commentary on Deuteronomy 5:33

You shall walk in all the way: this is a biblical idiom, meaning to live as God requires, obeying the commandments, statutes, and ordinances as given through Moses. If the figure walk in the way or “walk your lives in the way” is kept, the verb that follows should be “that the LORD your God has shown [or indicated, or traced] for you.” New Jerusalem Bible has “has marked for you.”

It may go well with you: see verse 29.

You may live long in the land: see 4.40; 5.16.

Which you shall possess: see 1.8.

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 .

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