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 1:31

1:31 and in the desert, where you saw him ⁵  carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”

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 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. ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 9:7

The History of Israel’s Stubbornness

9:7 Remember – don’t ever forget ⁷  – how you provoked the Lord your God in the desert; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him. ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 9:21

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

Deuteronomy 16:4

16:4 There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land ¹¹  for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 20:20

20:20 However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, ¹³  and you may use it to build siege works ¹⁴  against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.

Deuteronomy 28:20

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you ¹⁵  in everything you undertake ¹⁶  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. ¹⁷ 

Deuteronomy 28:45

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 ¹⁸  you.

Deuteronomy 28:48

28:48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty ¹⁹  you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They ²⁰  will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

---

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 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun (“him”) has been employed in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “was left to him.” The final phrase “to him” is redundant in English and has been left untranslated.

⁷ tn By juxtaposing the positive זְכֹר (zekhor, “remember”) with the negative אַל־תִּשְׁכַּח (’al-tishÿkakh, “do not forget”), Moses makes a most emphatic plea.

⁸ tn Heb “the Lord” (likewise in the following verse with both “him” and “he”). See note on “he” in 9:3.

⁹ tn Heb “your sin.” This is a metonymy in which the effect (sin) stands for the cause (the metal calf).

¹⁰ tn Heb “burned it with fire.”

¹¹ tn Heb “leaven must not be seen among you in all your border.”

¹² tn Heb “remain all night until the morning” (so KJV, ASV). This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹³ tn Heb “however, a tree which you know is not a tree for food you may destroy and cut down.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “[an] enclosure.” The term מָצוֹר (matsor) may refer to encircling ditches or to surrounding stagings. See R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 238.

¹⁵ tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

¹⁷ tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.

tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “lack of everything.”

²⁰ tn Heb “he” (also later in this verse). The pronoun is a collective singular referring to the enemies (cf. CEV, NLT). Many translations understand the singular pronoun to refer to the Lord (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV).