Deuteronomy 3:18

Instructions to the Transjordanian Tribes

3:18 At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites ¹  equipped for battle.

Deuteronomy 4:5

4:5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in ²  the land you are about to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 6:1

Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles

6:1 Now these are the commandments, ³  statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 11:4

11:4 or what he did to the army of Egypt, including their horses and chariots, when he made the waters of the Red Sea ⁵  overwhelm them while they were pursuing you and he ⁶  annihilated them. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 15:2

15:2 This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; ⁸  he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, ⁹  for it is to be recognized as “the Lord’s cancellation of debts.”

Deuteronomy 18:22

18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my ¹⁰  name and the prediction ¹¹  is not fulfilled, ¹²  then I have ¹³  not spoken it; ¹⁴  the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”

Deuteronomy 27:15

27:15 ‘Cursed is the one ¹⁵  who makes a carved or metal image – something abhorrent ¹⁶  to the Lord, the work of the craftsman ¹⁷  – and sets it up in a secret place.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’ ¹⁸ 

Deuteronomy 28:63

28:63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he ¹⁹  will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

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¹ tn Heb “your brothers, the sons of Israel.”

² tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).

³ tn Heb “commandment.” The word מִצְוָה (mitsvah) again is in the singular, serving as a comprehensive term for the whole stipulation section of the book. See note on the word “commandments” in 5:31.

⁴ tn Heb “where you are going over to possess it” (so NASB); NRSV “that you are about to cross into and occupy.”

⁵ tn Heb “Reed Sea.” “Reed Sea” (or “Sea of Reeds”) is a more accurate rendering of the Hebrew expression יָם סוּף (yam suf), traditionally translated “Red Sea.” See note on the term “Red Sea” in Exod 13:18.

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁷ tn Heb “and the Lord destroyed them to this day” (cf. NRSV); NLT “he has kept them devastated to this very day.” The translation uses the verb “annihilated” to indicate the permanency of the action.

⁸ tn Heb “his neighbor,” used idiomatically to refer to another person.

⁹ tn Heb “his neighbor and his brother.” The words “his brother” may be a scribal gloss identifying “his neighbor” (on this idiom, see the preceding note) as a fellow Israelite (cf. v. 3). In this case the conjunction before “his brother” does not introduce a second category, but rather has the force of “that is.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord’s.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

¹¹ tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”

¹² tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”

¹³ tn Heb “the Lord has.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

¹⁴ tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “man,” but in a generic sense here.

¹⁶ 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.

¹⁷ tn Heb “craftsman’s hands.”

¹⁸ tn Or “So be it!” The term is an affirmation expressing agreement with the words of the Levites.

¹⁹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.