Deuteronomy 1:8
1:8 Look! I have already given the land to you. 1 Go, occupy the territory that I, 2 the Lord, promised 3 to give to your ancestors 4 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.” 5
Deuteronomy 1:21
1:21 Look, he 6 has placed the land in front of you! 7 Go up, take possession of it, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”
Deuteronomy 4:31
4:31 (for he 8 is a merciful God), he will not let you down 9 or destroy you, for he cannot 10 forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.
Deuteronomy 6:10
Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively
6:10 Then when the Lord your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you – a land with large, fine cities you did not build,
Deuteronomy 6:18
6:18 Do whatever is proper 11 and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he 12 promised your ancestors,
Deuteronomy 8:1
The Lord’s Provision in the Desert
8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments 13 I am giving 14 you today so that you may live, increase in number, 15 and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. 16
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 17 and eventually bring good to you.
Deuteronomy 11:21
11:21 so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself. 18
Deuteronomy 12:1
The Central Sanctuary
12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 19 has given you to possess. 20
Deuteronomy 13:6
False Prophets in the Family
13:6 Suppose your own full brother, 21 your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods 22 that neither you nor your ancestors 23 have previously known, 24
Deuteronomy 13:17
13:17 You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. 25 Then the Lord will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.
Deuteronomy 26:3
26:3 You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “I declare today to the Lord your 26 God that I have come into the land that the Lord 27 promised 28 to our ancestors 29 to give us.”
Deuteronomy 26:15
26:15 Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors – a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Deuteronomy 28:11
28:11 The Lord will greatly multiply your children, 30 the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he 31 promised your ancestors 32 he would give you.
Deuteronomy 28:36
28:36 The Lord will force you and your king 33 whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.
Deuteronomy 28:64
28:64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 29:13
29:13 Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, 34 just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors 35 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 29:25
29:25 Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
1 tn Heb “I have placed before you the land.”
2 tn Heb “the Lord.” Since the Lord is speaking, it is preferable for clarity to supply the first person pronoun in the translation.
3 tn Heb “swore” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). This refers to God’s promise, made by solemn oath, to give the patriarchs the land.
4 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 11, 21, 35).
5 tn Heb “their seed after them.”
6 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun (“he”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid repetition.
7 tn Or “has given you the land” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).
8 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 4:3.
9 tn Heb “he will not drop you,” i.e., “will not abandon you” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
10 tn Or “will not.” The translation understands the imperfect verbal form to have an added nuance of capability here.
11 tn Heb “upright.”
12 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on the word “his” in v. 17.
13 tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).
14 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).
15 tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”
16 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).
17 tn Heb “in order to humble you and in order to test you.” See 8:2.
18 tn Heb “like the days of the heavens upon the earth,” that is, forever.
19 tn Heb “fathers.”
20 tn Heb “you must be careful to obey in the land the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days which you live in the land.” This adverbial statement modifies “to obey,” not “to possess,” so the order in the translation has been rearranged to make this clear.
21 tn Heb “your brother, the son of your mother.” In a polygamous society it was not rare to have half brothers and sisters by way of a common father and different mothers.
22 tn In the Hebrew text these words are in the form of a brief quotation: “entice you secretly saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods.’”
23 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 17).
24 tn Heb “which you have not known, you or your fathers.” (cf. KJV, ASV; on “fathers” cf. v. 18).
25 tn Or “anything that has been put under the divine curse”; Heb “anything of the ban” (cf. NASB). See note on the phrase “divine judgment” in Deut 2:34.
26 tc For the MT reading “your God,” certain LXX mss have “my God,” a contextually superior rendition followed by some English versions (e.g., NAB, NASB, TEV). Perhaps the text reflects dittography of the kaf (כ) at the end of the word with the following preposition כִּי (ki).
27 tc The Syriac adds “your God” to complete the usual formula.
28 tn Heb “swore on oath.”
29 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 15).
30 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”
31 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
32 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).
33 tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”
34 tn Heb “in order to establish you today to him for a people and he will be to you for God.” Verses 10-13 are one long sentence in Hebrew. The translation divides this into two sentences for stylistic reasons.
35 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 25).