Deuteronomy 1:44

1:44 The Amorite inhabitants of that area ¹  confronted ²  you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah. ³ 

Deuteronomy 2:25

2:25 This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth ⁴  with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.” ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 4:8

4:8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just ⁶  as this whole law ⁷  that I am about to share with ⁸  you today?

Deuteronomy 11:8

The Abundance of the Land of Promise

11:8 Now pay attention to all the commandments ⁹  I am giving ¹⁰  you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed, ¹¹ 

Deuteronomy 12:25

12:25 You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 17:10

17:10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

Deuteronomy 18:1

Provision for Priests and Levites

18:1 The Levitical priests ¹³  – indeed, the entire tribe of Levi – will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the Lord and of his inheritance. ¹⁴ 

Deuteronomy 18:18

18:18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

Deuteronomy 28:40

28:40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe. ¹⁵ 

Deuteronomy 28:47

The Curse of Military Siege

28:47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

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¹ tn Heb “in that hill country,” repeating the end of v. 43.

² tn Heb “came out to meet.”

³ sn Hormah is probably Khirbet el-Meshash, 5.5 mi (9 km) west of Arad and 7.5 mi (12 km) SE of Beer Sheba. Its name is a derivative of the verb חָרָם (kharam, “to ban; to exterminate”). See Num 21:3.

⁴ tn Heb “under heaven” (so NIV, NRSV).

⁵ tn Heb “from before you.”

⁶ tn Or “pure”; or “fair”; Heb “righteous.”

⁷ tn The Hebrew phrase הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת (hattorah hazzo’t), in this context, refers specifically to the Book of Deuteronomy. That is, it is the collection of all the חֻקִּים (khuqqim, “statutes,” 4:1) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim, “ordinances,” 4:1) to be included in the covenant text. In a full canonical sense, of course, it pertains to the entire Pentateuch or Torah.

⁸ tn Heb “place before.”

⁹ tn Heb “the commandment.” The singular מִצְוָה (mitsvah, “commandment”) speaks here as elsewhere of the whole corpus of covenant stipulations in Deuteronomy (cf. 6:1, 25; 7:11; 8:1).

¹⁰ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in vv. 13, 27).

¹¹ tn Heb “which you are crossing over there to possess it.”

¹² tc Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.” The LXX adds “your God” to create the common formula, “the Lord your God.” The MT is preferred precisely because it does not include the stereotyped formula; thus it more likely preserves the original text.

¹³ tn The MT places the terms “priests” and “Levites” in apposition, thus creating an epexegetical construction in which the second term qualifies the first, i.e., “Levitical priests.” This is a way of asserting their legitimacy as true priests. The Syriac renders “to the priest and to the Levite,” making a distinction between the two, but one that is out of place here.

¹⁴ sn Of his inheritance. This is a figurative way of speaking of the produce of the land the Lord will give to his people. It is the Lord’s inheritance, but the Levites are allowed to eat it since they themselves have no inheritance among the other tribes of Israel.

¹⁵ tn Heb “your olives will drop off” (נָשַׁל, nashal), referring to the olives dropping off before they ripen.