Deuteronomy 1:21

1:21 Look, he 1  has placed the land in front of you! 2  Go up, take possession of it, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”

Deuteronomy 2:24

2:24 Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, 3  and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

Deuteronomy 11:10

11:10 For the land where you are headed 4  is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand 5  like a vegetable garden.

Deuteronomy 22:3

22:3 You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor 6  has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved. 7 

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. 8 

Deuteronomy 31:13

31:13 Then their children, who have not known this law, 9  will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

1 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun (“he”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid repetition.

2 tn Or “has given you the land” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).

3 sn Heshbon is the name of a prominent site (now Tell Hesba„n, about 7.5 mi [12 km] south southwest of Amman, Jordan). Sihon made it his capital after having driven Moab from the area and forced them south to the Arnon (Num 21:26-30). Heshbon is also mentioned in Deut 1:4.

4 tn Heb “you are going there to possess it”; NASB “into which you are about to cross to possess it”; NRSV “that you are crossing over to occupy.”

5 tn Heb “with your foot” (so NASB, NLT). There is a two-fold significance to this phrase. First, Egypt had no rain so water supply depended on human efforts at irrigation. Second, the Nile was the source of irrigation waters but those waters sometimes had to be pumped into fields and gardens by foot-power, perhaps the kind of machinery (Arabic shaduf) still used by Egyptian farmers (see C. Aldred, The Egyptians, 181). Nevertheless, the translation uses “by hand,” since that expression is the more common English idiom for an activity performed by manual labor.

6 tn Heb “your brother” (also in v. 4).

7 tn Heb “you must not hide yourself.”

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

9 tn The phrase “this law” is not in the Hebrew text, but English style requires an object for the verb here. Other translations also supply the object which is otherwise implicit (cf. NIV “who do not know this law”; TEV “who have never heard the Law of the Lord your God”).