Deuteronomy 4:29

But if from thence ye shall seek … thou shalt find The Pl. yeis due either to the attraction of the plurals of the previous verses or to a dittography. How easily the former worked is seen from the LXX which carries the Pl. as far as search after him. Read with Sam. thou shalt seek. Thus the Sg. stands throughout Deuteronomy 4:29-31. Omit himafter find; cp. Jeremiah 29:13.

with all thy heart and with all thy soul Heartthe seal of the practical intellect(see on Deuteronomy 4:9); soulof the desires, the two thus covering the whole man. See Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 11:13; Deuteronomy 13:3; Deuteronomy 26:16; Deuteronomy 30:2; Deuteronomy 30:6; Deuteronomy 30:10 (Deuteronomy 6:5 adds with all thy force), and deuteronomic passages in Josh. and Kgs; once in Jeremiah 32:41 of God. This enforcement of spiritual thoroughness is characteristic of D.