3:18 At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites 3 equipped for battle.
12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 15 has given you to possess. 16
21:15 Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, 44 and they both 45 bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
24:1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive 47 in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.
24:5 When a man is newly married, he need not go into 48 the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to 49 the wife he has married.
28:45 All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given 50 you.
30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses 57 I have set before you, you will reflect upon them 58 in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.
32:22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger,
and it burns to lowest Sheol; 61
it consumes the earth and its produce,
and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
32:36 The Lord will judge his people,
and will change his plans concerning 62 his servants;
when he sees that their power has disappeared,
and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.
33:21 He has selected the best part for himself,
for the portion of the ruler 63 is set aside 64 there;
he came with the leaders 65 of the people,
he obeyed the righteous laws of the Lord
and his ordinances with Israel.
1 tn Heb “the
2 tn Or “has given you the land” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “your brothers, the sons of Israel.”
4 tn Heb “by a strong hand and an outstretched arm,” the hand and arm symbolizing divine activity and strength. Cf. NLT “with amazing power and mighty deeds.”
5 tn Or “keep” (so KJV, NRSV).
6 tn Heb “the
7 tn Heb “may prolong your days”; NAB “may have long life”; TEV “will continue to live.”
8 tn Heb “the
9 tn That is, “set apart.”
10 tn Heb “the
11 tn Or “treasured” (so NIV, NRSV); NLT “his own special treasure.” The Hebrew term סְגֻלָּה (sÿgullah) describes Israel as God’s choice people, those whom he elected and who are most precious to him (cf. Exod 19:4-6; Deut 14:2; 26:18; 1 Chr 29:3; Ps 135:4; Eccl 2:8 Mal 3:17). See E. Carpenter, NIDOTTE 3:224.
12 tn Heb “the
13 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.
14 tn Heb “the
15 tn Heb “fathers.”
16 tn Heb “you must be careful to obey in the land the
17 tn Or “anything that has been put under the divine curse”; Heb “anything of the ban” (cf. NASB). See note on the phrase “divine judgment” in Deut 2:34.
18 tn Or “set apart.”
19 tn Heb “The
20 tn Or “treasured.” The Hebrew term סְגֻלָּה (sÿgullah) describes Israel as God’s choice people, those whom he elected and who are most precious to him (cf. Exod 19:4-6; Deut 14:2; 26:18; 1 Chr 29:3; Ps 135:4; Eccl 2:8 Mal 3:17). See E. Carpenter, NIDOTTE 3:224.
sn The Hebrew term translated “select” (and the whole verse) is reminiscent of the classic covenant text (Exod 19:4-6) which describes Israel’s entry into covenant relationship with the
21 tc The MT lacks (probably by haplography) the phrase וְשֹׁסַע שֶׁסַע פַּרְסָה (vÿshosa’ shesa’ parsah, “and is clovenfooted,” i.e., “has parted hooves”), a phrase found in the otherwise exact parallel in Lev 11:7. The LXX and Smr attest the longer reading here. The meaning is, however, clear without it.
22 tn The Hebrew phrase חַג שָׁבֻעוֹת (khag shavu’ot) is otherwise known in the OT (Exod 23:16) as קָצִיר (qatsir, “harvest”) and in the NT as πεντηχοστή (penthcosth, “Pentecost”).
23 tn Heb “the sufficiency of the offering of your hand.”
24 tn Heb “the
25 tn Heb “gates.”
26 tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”
27 tn Heb “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV).
28 tn Heb “the
29 tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”
30 tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”
31 tn Heb “the
32 tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”
33 tn Heb “and this is the word pertaining to the one who kills who flees there and lives.”
34 tn Heb “who strikes his neighbor without knowledge.”
35 tn Heb “yesterday and a third (day)” (likewise in v. 6). The point is that there was no animosity between the two parties at the time of the accident and therefore no motive for the killing. Cf. NAB “had previously borne no malice”; NRSV “had not been at enmity before.”
36 tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).
37 tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).
38 tn The Hebrew term חָנַךְ (khanakh) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form (חָנֻכָּה, khanukah) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar (2 Chr 7:9) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).
39 tn Heb “another man.”
40 tn Heb “the priests, the sons of Levi.”
41 tn Heb “in the name of the
42 tn Heb “by their mouth.”
43 tn Heb “every controversy and every blow.”
44 tn Heb “one whom he loves and one whom he hates.” For the idea of שָׂנֵא (sane’, “hate”) meaning to be rejected or loved less (cf. NRSV “disliked”), see Gen 29:31, 33; Mal 1:2-3. Cf. A. Konkel, NIDOTTE 3:1256-60.
45 tn Heb “both the one whom he loves and the one whom he hates.” On the meaning of the phrase “one whom he loves and one whom he hates” see the note on the word “other” earlier in this verse. The translation has been simplified for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
46 tn Heb “his neighbor.”
47 tn Heb “nakedness of a thing.” The Hebrew phrase עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers here to some gross sexual impropriety (see note on “indecent” in Deut 23:14). Though the term usually has to do only with indecent exposure of the genitals, it can also include such behavior as adultery (cf. Lev 18:6-18; 20:11, 17, 20-21; Ezek 22:10; 23:29; Hos 2:10).
48 tn Heb “go out with.”
49 tc For the MT’s reading Piel שִׂמַּח (simmakh, “bring joy to”), the Syriac and others read שָׂמַח (samakh, “enjoy”).
50 tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”
51 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”
52 tn Heb “siege and stress.”
53 tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”
54 tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”
55 tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”
56 tn Heb “will say and see.” One expects a quotation to appear, but it seems to be omitted. To avoid confusion in the translation, the verb “will say” is omitted.
57 tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”
58 tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”
59 tn Heb “the
60 tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”
61 tn Or “to the lowest depths of the earth”; cf. NAB “to the depths of the nether world”; NIV “to the realm of death below”; NLT “to the depths of the grave.”
sn Sheol refers here not to hell and hell-fire – a much later concept – but to the innermost parts of the earth, as low down as one could get. The parallel with “the foundations of the mountains” makes this clear (cf. Pss 9:17; 16:10; 139:8; Isa 14:9, 15; Amos 9:2).
62 tn The translation understands the verb in the sense of “be grieved, relent” (cf. HALOT 689 s.v. נחם hitp 2); cf. KJV, ASV “repent himself”; NLT “will change his mind.” Another option is to translate “will show compassion to” (see BDB 637 s.v. נחם); cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV.
63 tn The Hebrew term מְחֹקֵק (mÿkhoqeq; Poel participle of חָקַק, khaqaq, “to inscribe”) reflects the idea that the recorder of allotments (the “ruler”) is able to set aside for himself the largest and best. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 444-45.
64 tn Heb “covered in” (if from the root סָפַן, safan; cf. HALOT 764-65 s.v. ספן qal).
65 tn Heb “heads” (in the sense of chieftains).