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 2:21

2:21 They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites ²  in advance of the Ammonites, ³  so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

Deuteronomy 3:3

3:3 So the Lord our God did indeed give over to us King Og of Bashan and his whole army and we struck them down until not a single survivor was left. ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 4:31

4:31 (for he ⁵  is a merciful God), he will not let you down ⁶  or destroy you, for he cannot ⁷  forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.

Deuteronomy 6:7

6:7 and you must teach ⁸  them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, ⁹  as you lie down, and as you get up.

Deuteronomy 9:18

9:18 Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.

Deuteronomy 11:19

11:19 Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, ¹⁰  as you lie down, and as you get up.

Deuteronomy 20:20

20:20 However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, ¹¹  and you may use it to build siege works ¹²  against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.

Deuteronomy 21:4

21:4 and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, ¹³  to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. ¹⁴  There at the wadi they are to break the heifer’s neck.

Deuteronomy 25:2

25:2 Then, ¹⁵  if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, ¹⁶  the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves. ¹⁷ 

Deuteronomy 26:10

26:10 So now, look! I have brought the first of the ground’s produce that you, Lord, have given me.” Then you must set it down before the Lord your God and worship before him. ¹⁸ 

Deuteronomy 26:15

26:15 Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors – a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Deuteronomy 28:7

28:7 The Lord will cause your enemies who attack ¹⁹  you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction ²⁰  but flee from you in seven different directions.

Deuteronomy 28:25

Curses by Defeat and Deportation

28:25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror ²¹  to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 31:9

The Deposit of the Covenant Text

31:9 Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all Israel’s elders.

Deuteronomy 31:19

31:19 Now write down for yourselves the following song and teach it to the Israelites. Put it into their very mouths so that this song may serve as my witness against the Israelites!

---

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

² tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Rephaites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Ammonites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “was left to him.” The final phrase “to him” is redundant in English and has been left untranslated.

⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 4:3.

⁶ tn Heb “he will not drop you,” i.e., “will not abandon you” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

⁷ tn Or “will not.” The translation understands the imperfect verbal form to have an added nuance of capability here.

⁸ tn Heb “repeat” (so NLT). If from the root I שָׁנַן (shanan), the verb means essentially to “engrave,” that is, “to teach incisively” (Piel); note NAB “Drill them into your children.” Cf. BDB 1041-42 s.v.

⁹ tn Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”

¹⁰ tn Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”

¹¹ tn Heb “however, a tree which you know is not a tree for food you may destroy and cut down.”

¹² tn Heb “[an] enclosure.” The term מָצוֹר (matsor) may refer to encircling ditches or to surrounding stagings. See R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 238.

¹³ tn The combination “a wadi with flowing water” is necessary because a wadi (נַחַל, nakhal) was ordinarily a dry stream or riverbed. For this ritual, however, a perennial stream must be chosen so that there would be fresh, rushing water.

¹⁴ sn The unworked heifer, fresh stream, and uncultivated valley speak of ritual purity – of freedom from human contamination.

¹⁵ tn Heb “and it will be.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “if the evil one is a son of smiting.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “according to his wickedness, by number.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 26:2.

¹⁹ tn Heb “who rise up against” (so NIV).

²⁰ tn Heb “way” (also later in this verse and in v. 25).

²¹ tc The meaningless MT reading זַעֲוָה (za’avah) is clearly a transposition of the more commonly attested Hebrew noun זְוָעָה (zÿva’ah, “terror”).