Deuteronomy 2:12

2:12 Previously the Horites ¹  lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the Lord gave them.) ² 

Deuteronomy 9:1

Theological Justification of the Conquest

9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. ³ 

Deuteronomy 10:12

An Exhortation to Love Both God and People

10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, ⁴  to obey all his commandments, ⁵  to love him, to serve him ⁶  with all your mind and being, ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 17:4

17:4 When it is reported to you and you hear about it, you must investigate carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing ⁸  is being done in Israel,

Deuteronomy 17:12

17:12 The person who pays no attention ⁹  to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 17:20--18:1

17:20 Then he will not exalt himself above his fellow citizens or turn from the commandments to the right or left, and he and his descendants will enjoy many years ruling over his kingdom ¹⁰  in Israel.

Provision for Priests and Levites

18:1 The Levitical priests ¹¹  – 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. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 18:6

18:6 Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will ¹³  from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, ¹⁴  to the place the Lord chooses

Deuteronomy 21:8

21:8 Do not blame ¹⁵  your people Israel whom you redeemed, O Lord, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.” ¹⁶  Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.

Deuteronomy 21:21

21:21 Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out ¹⁷  wickedness from among you, and all Israel ¹⁸  will hear about it and be afraid.

Deuteronomy 22:22

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ¹⁹  a married woman ²⁰  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ²¹  evil from Israel.

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 29:1

Narrative Interlude

29:1 (28:69) ²²  These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. ²³ 

Deuteronomy 29:21

29:21 The Lord will single him out ²⁴  for judgment ²⁵  from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.

Deuteronomy 31:9

The Deposit of the Covenant Text

31:9 Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all Israel’s elders.

Deuteronomy 33:21

33:21 He has selected the best part for himself,

for the portion of the ruler ²⁶  is set aside ²⁷  there;

he came with the leaders ²⁸  of the people,

he obeyed the righteous laws of the Lord

and his ordinances with Israel.

Deuteronomy 33:29

33:29 You have joy, Israel! Who is like you?

You are a people delivered by the Lord,

your protective shield

and your exalted sword.

May your enemies cringe before you;

may you trample on their backs.

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¹ sn Horites. Most likely these are the same as the well-known people of ancient Near Eastern texts described as Hurrians. They were geographically widespread and probably non-Semitic. Genesis speaks of them as the indigenous peoples of Edom that Esau expelled (Gen 36:8-19, 31-43) and also as among those who confronted the kings of the east (Gen 14:6).

² tn Most modern English versions, beginning with the ASV (1901), regard vv. 10-12 as parenthetical to the narrative.

³ tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

⁵ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “follow his ways exactly”; NLT “to live according to his will.”

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

⁷ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being”; NCV “with your whole being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

⁸ tn Heb “an abomination” (תּוֹעֵבָה); see note on the word “offensive” in v. 1.

⁹ tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).

¹⁰ tc Heb “upon his kingship.” Smr supplies כִּסֵא (kise’, “throne”) so as to read “upon the throne of his kingship.” This overliteralizes what is a clearly understood figure of speech.

¹¹ 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.

¹² 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.

¹³ tn Heb “according to all the desire of his soul.”

¹⁴ tn Or “sojourning.” The verb used here refers to living temporarily in a place, not settling down.

¹⁵ tn Heb “Atone for.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and do not place innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel.”

¹⁷ tn The Hebrew term בִּעַרְתָּה (bi’artah), here and elsewhere in such contexts (cf. Deut 13:5; 17:7, 12; 19:19; 21:9), suggests God’s anger which consumes like fire (thus בָעַר, ba’ar, “to burn”). See H. Ringgren, TDOT 2:203-4.

¹⁸ tc Some LXX traditions read הַנִּשְׁאָרִים (hannish’arim, “those who remain”) for the MT’s יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra’el, “Israel”), understandable in light of Deut 19:20. However, the more difficult reading found in the MT is more likely original.

¹⁹ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

²⁰ tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

²¹ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

²² sn Beginning with 29:1, the verse numbers through 29:29 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 29:1 ET = 28:69 HT, 29:2 ET = 29:1 HT, 29:3 ET = 29:2 HT, etc., through 29:29 ET = 29:28 HT. With 30:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

²³ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (which some English versions substitute here for clarity, cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

²⁴ tn Heb “set him apart.”

²⁵ tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”

²⁶ tn The Hebrew term מְחֹקֵק (mÿkhoqeq; Poel participle of חָקַק, khaqaq, “to inscribe”) reflects the idea that the recorder of allotments (the “ruler”) is able to set aside for himself the largest and best. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 444-45.

²⁷ tn Heb “covered in” (if from the root סָפַן, safan; cf. HALOT 764-65 s.v. ספן qal).

²⁸ tn Heb “heads” (in the sense of chieftains).