... Do the Word which I covenanted with you . . . This is a complicated sentence in Hebrew. The Septuagint omits it, and many commentators regard it as an editorial gloss. The New English Bible for one excludes it from its translation; and others—the New Jewish Publication Society, Authorized Version, Revised Standard Version—translate it as part of verse 4. The problem of the location of this clause arises from the fact that in the Masoretic Text the word ‘do,’ āsu, actually occurs in verse 4 before ‘Indeed I will be with you.’ We have translated āsu with its proper object, ‘Word,’ in verse 5. The distance between verb and object does not necessarily imply a secondary insertion of a phrase but rather can be an intentional displacement of the object to heighten the authority of the command ...