Deuteronomy 1:5

1:5 So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words: ¹ 

Deuteronomy 2:11

2:11 These people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites; ²  the Moabites call them Emites.

Deuteronomy 6:6

Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles

6:6 These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

Deuteronomy 7:17

7:17 If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”

Deuteronomy 8:4

8:4 Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.

Deuteronomy 9:27

9:27 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.

Deuteronomy 14:4

14:4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Deuteronomy 14:9

14:9 These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,

Deuteronomy 14:12

14:12 These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, ³  the vulture, ⁴  the black vulture, ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 15:5

15:5 if you carefully obey ⁶  him ⁷  by keeping ⁸  all these commandments that I am giving ⁹  you today.

Deuteronomy 25:16

25:16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent ¹⁰  to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:2

28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance ¹¹  if you obey the Lord your God:

Deuteronomy 28:46

28:46 These curses ¹²  will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants. ¹³ 

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¹ tn Heb “this instruction”; KJV, NIV, NRSV “this law”; TEV “God’s laws and teachings.” The Hebrew noun תוֹרָה (torah) is derived from the verb יָרָה (yarah, “to teach”) and here it refers to the Book of Deuteronomy, not the Pentateuch as a whole.

² sn Rephaites. The earliest reference to this infamous giant race is, again, in the story of the invasion of the eastern kings (Gen 14:5). They lived around Ashteroth Karnaim, probably modern Tell Ashtarah (cf. Deut 1:4), in the Bashan plateau east of the Sea of Galilee. Og, king of Bashan, was a Rephaite (Deut 3:11; Josh 12:4; 13:12). Other texts speak of them or their kinfolk in both Transjordan (Deut 2:20; 3:13) and Canaan (Josh 11:21-22; 14:12, 15; 15:13-14; Judg 1:20; 1 Sam 17:4; 1 Chr 20:4-8). They also appear in extra-biblical literature, especially in connection with the city state of Ugarit. See C. L’Heureux, “Ugaritic and Biblical Rephaim,” HTR 67 (1974): 265-74.

³ tn NEB “the griffon-vulture.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew term פֶּרֶס (peres) describes a large vulture otherwise known as the ossifrage (cf. KJV). This largest of the vultures takes its name from its habit of dropping skeletal remains from a great height so as to break the bones apart.

⁵ tn The Hebrew term עָזְנִיָּה (’ozniyyah) may describe the black vulture (so NIV) or it may refer to the osprey (so NAB, NRSV, NLT), an eagle-like bird subsisting mainly on fish.

⁶ tn Heb “if listening you listen to the voice of.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “carefully.” The idiom “listen to the voice” means “obey.”

⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 15:4.

⁸ tn Heb “by being careful to do.”

⁹ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB); NAB “which I enjoin you today.”

¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term translated here “abhorrent” (תּוֹעֵבָה, to’evah) speaks of attitudes and/or behaviors so vile as to be reprehensible to a holy God. See note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.

¹¹ tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”

¹² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the curses mentioned previously) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).