Deuteronomy 1:19

1:19 Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.

Deuteronomy 1:25

1:25 Then they took ¹  some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, “The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.”

Deuteronomy 2:12

2:12 Previously the Horites ²  lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the Lord gave them.) ³ 

Deuteronomy 2:29

2:29 just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the Lord our God is giving us.”

Deuteronomy 2:36

2:36 From Aroer, ⁴  which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi), ⁵  all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us – the Lord our God gave them all to us.

Deuteronomy 9:9

9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there ⁶  forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

Deuteronomy 17:16

17:16 Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, ⁷  for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.

Deuteronomy 17:19

17:19 It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.

Deuteronomy 27:15

27:15 ‘Cursed is the one ⁸  who makes a carved or metal image – something abhorrent ⁹  to the Lord, the work of the craftsman ¹⁰  – and sets it up in a secret place.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’ ¹¹ 

Deuteronomy 29:23

29:23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 29:29

29:29 Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants ¹³  forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 33:2

33:2 He said:

A Historical Review

The Lord came from Sinai

and revealed himself ¹⁴  to Israel ¹⁵  from Seir.

He appeared in splendor ¹⁶  from Mount Paran,

and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. ¹⁷ 

With his right hand he gave a fiery law ¹⁸  to them.

Deuteronomy 34:9

The Epitaph of Moses

34:9 Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had placed his hands on him; ¹⁹  and the Israelites listened to him and did just what the Lord had commanded Moses.

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¹ tn The Hebrew text includes “in their hand,” which is unnecessary and somewhat redundant in English style.

² sn Horites. Most likely these are the same as the well-known people of ancient Near Eastern texts described as Hurrians. They were geographically widespread and probably non-Semitic. Genesis speaks of them as the indigenous peoples of Edom that Esau expelled (Gen 36:8-19, 31-43) and also as among those who confronted the kings of the east (Gen 14:6).

³ tn Most modern English versions, beginning with the ASV (1901), regard vv. 10-12 as parenthetical to the narrative.

⁴ sn Aroer. Now known as àAraáir on the northern edge of the Arnon river, Aroer marked the southern limit of Moab and, later, of the allotment of the tribe of Reuben (Josh 13:9, 16).

⁵ tn Heb “the city in the wadi.” This enigmatic reference may refer to Ar or, more likely, to Aroer itself. Epexegetically the text might read, “From Aroer…, that is, the city in the wadi.” See D. L. Christensen, Deuteronomy 1–11 (WBC), 49.

⁶ tn Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn Heb “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV).

⁸ tn Heb “man,” but in a generic sense here.

⁹ tn The Hebrew term translated here “abhorrent” (תּוֹעֵבָה, to’evah) speaks of attitudes and/or behaviors so vile as to be reprehensible to a holy God. See note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.

¹⁰ tn Heb “craftsman’s hands.”

¹¹ tn Or “So be it!” The term is an affirmation expressing agreement with the words of the Levites.

¹² tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” This construction is a hendiadys intended to intensify the emotion.

¹³ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NIV, NRSV “children.”

¹⁴ tn Or “rose like the sun” (NCV, TEV).

¹⁵ tc Heb “to him.” The LXX reads “to us” (לָנוּ [lanu] for לָמוֹ [lamo]), the reading of the MT is acceptable since it no doubt has in mind Israel as a collective singular.

tn Heb “him”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁶ tn Or “he shone forth” (NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

¹⁷ tc With slight alteration (מִמְרִבַת קָדֵשׁ [mimrivat qadesh] for the MT’s מֵרִבְבֹת קֹדֶשׁ [merivvot qodesh]) the translation would be “from Meribah Kadesh” (cf. NAB, NLT; see Deut 32:51). However, the language of holy war in the immediate context favors the reading of the MT, which views the Lord as accompanied by angelic hosts.

¹⁸ tc The mispointed Hebrew term אֵשְׁדָּת (’eshdat) should perhaps be construed as אֵשְׁהַת (’eshhat) with Smr.

¹⁹ sn See Num 27:18.