Deuteronomy 1:3

1:3 However, it was not until ¹  the first day of the eleventh month ²  of the fortieth year ³  that Moses addressed the Israelites just as ⁴  the Lord had instructed him to do.

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 2:30

2:30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our ⁵  God had made him obstinate ⁶  and stubborn ⁷  so that he might deliver him over to you ⁸  this very day.

Deuteronomy 8:16

8:16 fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you ⁹  and eventually bring good to you.

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 9:21

9:21 As for your sinful thing ¹⁰  that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ¹¹  ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

Deuteronomy 10:4

10:4 The Lord ¹²  then wrote on the tablets the same words, ¹³  the ten commandments, ¹⁴  which he ¹⁵  had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he ¹⁶  gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 22:14

22:14 accusing her of impropriety ¹⁷  and defaming her reputation ¹⁸  by saying, “I married this woman but when I had sexual relations ¹⁹  with her I discovered she was not a virgin!”

Deuteronomy 22:22

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ²⁰  a married woman ²¹  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ²²  evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 29:1

Narrative Interlude

29:1 (28:69) ²³  These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. ²⁴ 

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¹ tn Heb “in” or “on.” Here there is a contrast between the ordinary time of eleven days (v. 2) and the actual time of forty years, so “not until” brings out that vast disparity.

² sn The eleventh month is Shebat in the Hebrew calendar, January/February in the modern (Gregorian) calendar.

³ sn The fortieth year would be 1406 b.c. according to the “early” date of the exodus. See E. H. Merrill, Kingdom of Priests, 66-75.

⁴ tn Heb “according to all which.”

⁵ tc The translation follows the LXX in reading the first person pronoun. The MT, followed by many English versions, has a second person masculine singular pronoun, “your.”

⁶ tn Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”

⁷ tn Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”

⁸ tn Heb “into your hand.”

⁹ tn Heb “in order to humble you and in order to test you.” See 8:2.

¹⁰ tn Heb “your sin.” This is a metonymy in which the effect (sin) stands for the cause (the metal calf).

¹¹ tn Heb “burned it with fire.”

¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Heb “according to the former writing.” See note on the phrase “the same words” in v. 2.

¹⁴ tn Heb “ten words.” The “Ten Commandments” are known in Hebrew as the “Ten Words,” which in Greek became the “Decalogue.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

¹⁶ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” earlier in this verse.

¹⁷ tn Heb “deeds of things”; NRSV “makes up charges against her”; NIV “slanders her.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “brings against her a bad name”; NIV “gives her a bad name.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “drew near to her.” This is another Hebrew euphemism for having sexual relations.

²⁰ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

²¹ tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

²² tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

²³ sn Beginning with 29:1, the verse numbers through 29:29 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 29:1 ET = 28:69 HT, 29:2 ET = 29:1 HT, 29:3 ET = 29:2 HT, etc., through 29:29 ET = 29:28 HT. With 30:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

²⁴ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (which some English versions substitute here for clarity, cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).