Deuteronomy 19:9

A parenthesis, being the condition of the promise in Deuteronomy 19:8.

if thou shalt keep all this commandment, etc.] LXX B, etc., hear all these commandments. Cullen, p. 141, takes this passage as an actual quotation from Deuteronomy 11:22. On the formula, keep … to do, see Deuteronomy 4:6; Deuteronomy 5:1.

to love … in his ways) These phrases (cp. Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 10:12) some LXX Codd. and Luc. omit.

then shalt thou add three cities more is the apodosis to 8 a; all between consists of such formulas as later scribes were fond of inserting, and the evidence of the versions goes to show that they are not original.