Deuteronomy 1:45

1:45 Then you came back and wept before the Lord, but he ¹  paid no attention to you whatsoever. ² 

Deuteronomy 5:4

5:4 The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

Deuteronomy 5:6

The Ten Commandments

5:6 “I am the Lord your God, he who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery.

Deuteronomy 5:32

5:32 Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!

Deuteronomy 6:5

6:5 You must love ³  the Lord your God with your whole mind, ⁴  your whole being, ⁵  and all your strength. ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 6:12

6:12 be careful not to forget the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, that place of slavery. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 6:25

6:25 We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments ⁸  before the Lord our God, just as he demands.” ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 7:18

7:18 you must not fear them. You must carefully recall ¹⁰  what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt,

Deuteronomy 7:20

7:20 Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets ¹¹  among them until the very last ones who hide from you ¹²  perish.

Deuteronomy 8:5

8:5 Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, ¹³  the Lord your God disciplines you.

Deuteronomy 9:20

9:20 The Lord was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him ¹⁴  too.

Deuteronomy 10:13-14

10:13 and to keep the Lord’s commandments and statutes that I am giving ¹⁵  you today for your own good? 10:14 The heavens – indeed the highest heavens – belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it.

Deuteronomy 10:20

10:20 Revere the Lord your God, serve him, be loyal to him and take oaths only in his name.

Deuteronomy 11:7

11:7 I am speaking to you ¹⁶  because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the Lord!

Deuteronomy 11:27

11:27 the blessing if you take to heart ¹⁷  the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today,

Deuteronomy 12:9

12:9 for you have not yet come to the final stop ¹⁸  and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 15:20

15:20 You and your household must eat them annually before the Lord your God in the place he ¹⁹  chooses.

Deuteronomy 16:5

16:5 You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages ²⁰  that the Lord your God is giving you,

Deuteronomy 18:21

18:21 Now if you say to yourselves, ²¹  ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ ²²  –

Deuteronomy 20:4

20:4 for the Lord your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory.” ²³ 

Deuteronomy 20:13

20:13 The Lord your God will deliver it over to you ²⁴  and you must kill every single male by the sword.

Deuteronomy 26:4

26:4 The priest will then take the basket from you ²⁵  and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:10

28:10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, ²⁶  and they will respect you.

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,

Deuteronomy 29:4

29:4 But to this very day the Lord has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears! ²⁷ 

Deuteronomy 29:12

29:12 so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today. ²⁸ 

Deuteronomy 31:15

31:15 The Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud that ²⁹  stood above the door of the tent.

Deuteronomy 32:3

32:3 For I will proclaim the name ³⁰  of the Lord;

you must acknowledge the greatness of our God.

Deuteronomy 32:34

32:34 “Is this not stored up with me?” says the Lord, ³¹ 

“Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?

Deuteronomy 33:5

33:5 The Lord ³²  was king over Jeshurun, ³³ 

when the leaders of the people assembled,

the tribes of Israel together. ³⁴ 

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¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun (“he”) has been employed in the translation here for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

² tn Heb “did not hear your voice and did not turn an ear to you.”

³ tn The verb אָהַב (’ahav, “to love”) in this setting communicates not so much an emotional idea as one of covenant commitment. To love the Lord is to be absolutely loyal and obedient to him in every respect, a truth Jesus himself taught (cf. John 14:15). See also the note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37.

⁴ tn Heb “heart.” In OT physiology the heart (לֵב, לֵבָב; levav, lev) was considered the seat of the mind or intellect, so that one could think with one’s heart. See A. Luc, NIDOTTE 2:749-54.

⁵ tn Heb “soul”; “being.” Contrary to Hellenistic ideas of a soul that is discrete and separate from the body and spirit, OT anthropology equated the “soul” (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh) with the person himself. It is therefore best in most cases to translate נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) as “being” or the like. See H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 10-25; D. Fredericks, NIDOTTE 3:133-34.

⁶ sn For NT variations on the Shema see Matt 22:37-39; Mark 12:29-30; Luke 10:27.

⁷ tn Heb “out of the house of slavery” (so NASB, NRSV).

⁸ tn The term “commandment” (מִצְוָה, mitsvah), here in the singular, refers to the entire body of covenant stipulations.

⁹ tn Heb “as he has commanded us” (so NIV, NRSV).

¹⁰ tn Heb “recalling, you must recall.” The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute before the finite verb for emphasis. Cf. KJV, ASV “shalt well remember.”

¹¹ tn The meaning of the term translated “hornets” (צִרְעָה, tsir’ah) is debated. Various suggestions are “discouragement” (HALOT 1056-57 s.v.; cf. NEB, TEV, CEV “panic”; NCV “terror”) and “leprosy” (J. H. Tigay, Deuteronomy [JPSTC], 360, n. 33; cf. NRSV “the pestilence”), as well as “hornet” (BDB 864 s.v.; cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT). The latter seems most suitable to the verb שָׁלַח (shalakh, “send”; cf. Exod 23:28; Josh 24:12).

¹² tn Heb “the remnant and those who hide themselves.”

¹³ tn Heb “just as a man disciplines his son.” The Hebrew text reflects the patriarchal idiom of the culture.

¹⁴ tn Heb “Aaron.” The pronoun is used in the translation to avoid redundancy.

¹⁵ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation.

¹⁶ tn On the addition of these words in the translation see note on “They did not see” in v. 3.

¹⁷ tn Heb “listen to,” that is, obey.

¹⁸ tn Heb “rest.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “the Lord.” The translation uses a pronoun for stylistic reasons. See note on “he” in 15:4.

²⁰ tn Heb “gates.”

²¹ tn Heb “in your heart.”

²² tn Heb “know the word which the Lord has not spoken.” The issue here is not understanding the meaning of the message, but distinguishing a genuine prophetic word from a false one.

²³ tn Or “to save you” (so KJV, NASB, NCV); or “to deliver you.”

²⁴ tn Heb “to your hands.”

²⁵ tn Heb “your hand.”

²⁶ tn Heb “the name of the Lord is called over you.” The Hebrew idiom indicates ownership; see 2 Sam 12:28; Isa 4:1, as well as BDB 896 s.v. קָרָא Niph. 2.d.(4).

²⁷ tn Heb “a heart to know, eyes to see and ears to hear” (NASB similar); NAB, NRSV “a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.”

²⁸ tn Heb “for you to pass on into the covenant of the Lord your God and into his oath, which the Lord your God is cutting with you today.”

²⁹ tn Heb “and the pillar of cloud.” This phrase was not repeated in the translation; a relative clause was used instead.

³⁰ tc Smr and Tg read “in the name.”

³¹ tn Verses 34-35 appear to be a quotation of the Lord and so the introductory phrase “says the Lord” is supplied in the translation.

³² tn Heb “he was king.” The present translation avoids the sudden shift in person and the mistaken impression that Moses is the referent by specifying the referent as “the Lord.”

³³ sn Jeshurun is a term of affection referring to Israel, derived from the Hebrew verb יָשַׁר (yashar, “be upright”). See note on the term in Deut 32:15.

³⁴ sn The following blessing is given to the tribes in order, although the tribe of Simeon is curiously missing from the list.