4:1 Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances 3 I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 4 is giving you.
22:6 If you happen to notice a bird’s nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them, 6 you must not take the mother from the young. 7
1 tn The words “you must fight” are not present in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “gives your brothers rest.”
3 tn These technical Hebrew terms (חֻקִּים [khuqqim] and מִשְׁפָּטִים [mishpatim]) occur repeatedly throughout the Book of Deuteronomy to describe the covenant stipulations to which Israel had been called to subscribe (see, in this chapter alone, vv. 1, 5, 6, 8). The word חֻקִּים derives from the verb חֹק (khoq, “to inscribe; to carve”) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim) from שָׁפַט (shafat, “to judge”). They are virtually synonymous and are used interchangeably in Deuteronomy.
4 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 31, 37).
5 tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “abhorrent; detestable”) describes anything detestable to the
6 tn Heb “and the mother sitting upon the chicks or the eggs.”
7 tn Heb “sons,” used here in a generic sense for offspring.
8 tn Heb “the
9 sn The place where he chooses to locate his name. This is a circumlocution for the central sanctuary, first the tabernacle and later the Jerusalem temple. See Deut 12:1-14 and especially the note on the word “you” in v. 14.