Deuteronomy 2:31

2:31 The Lord said to me, “Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession.”

Deuteronomy 20:8

20:8 In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s ¹  heart as fearful ²  as his own.”

Deuteronomy 24:15

24:15 You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Deuteronomy 25:2

25:2 Then, ³  if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, ⁴  the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves. ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 25:11

25:11 If two men ⁶  get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals, ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 29:20

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger ⁸  will rage ⁹  against that man; all the curses ¹⁰  written in this scroll will fall upon him ¹¹  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 32:11

32:11 Like an eagle that stirs up ¹³  its nest,

that hovers over its young,

so the Lord ¹⁴  spread out his wings and took him, ¹⁵ 

he lifted him up on his pinions.

Deuteronomy 33:11

33:11 Bless, O Lord, his goods,

and be pleased with his efforts;

undercut the legs ¹⁶  of any who attack him,

and of those who hate him, so that they cannot stand.

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¹ tn Heb “his brother’s.”

² tn Heb “melted.”

³ tn Heb “and it will be.”

⁴ tn Heb “if the evil one is a son of smiting.”

⁵ tn Heb “according to his wickedness, by number.”

⁶ tn Heb “a man and his brother.”

⁷ tn Heb “shameful parts.” Besides the inherent indelicacy of what she has done, the woman has also threatened the progenitive capacity of the injured man. The level of specificity given this term in modern translations varies: “private parts” (NAB, NIV, CEV); “genitals” (NASB, NRSV, TEV); “sex organs” (NCV); “testicles” (NLT).

⁸ tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

⁹ tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

¹¹ tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

¹² tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

¹³ tn The prefixed verbal form is an imperfect, indicating habitual or typical behavior. The parallel verb (cf. “hovers” in the next line) is used in the same manner.

¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵ tn The form of the suffix on this and the following verb forms (cf. “lifted him up”) indicates that the verbs are preterites, not imperfects. As such they simply state the action factually. The use of the preterite here suggests that the preceding verb (cf. “spread out”) is preterite as well.

¹⁶ tn Heb “smash the sinews [or “loins,” so many English versions].” This part of the body was considered to be center of one’s strength (cf. Job 40:16; Ps 69:24; Prov 31:17; Nah 2:2, 11). See J. H. Tigay, Deuteronomy (JPSTC), 325.