Deuteronomy 3:20

3:20 You must fight until the Lord gives your countrymen victory as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”

Deuteronomy 5:14

5:14 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.

Deuteronomy 12:18

12:18 Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor.

Deuteronomy 12:28

12:28 Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 14:7

14:7 However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

Deuteronomy 14:23

14:23 In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.

Deuteronomy 17:19

17:19 It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.

Deuteronomy 19:5

19:5 Suppose he goes with someone else 10  to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax 11  to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose 12  from the handle and strikes 13  his fellow worker 14  so hard that he dies. The person responsible 15  may then flee to one of these cities to save himself. 16 

Deuteronomy 20:19

20:19 If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, 17  you must not chop down its trees, 18  for you may eat fruit 19  from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it! 20 

Deuteronomy 22:19

22:19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation 21  ruined the reputation 22  of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 24:13

24:13 You must by all means 23  return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just 24  deed by the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 24:19

24:19 Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, 25  you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the Lord your God may bless all the work you do. 26 

Deuteronomy 25:9

25:9 then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. 27  She will then respond, “Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother’s family line!” 28 

Deuteronomy 26:12

Presentation of the Third-year Tithe

26:12 When you finish tithing all 29  your income in the third year (the year of tithing), you must give it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows 30  so that they may eat to their satisfaction in your villages. 31 

Deuteronomy 27:3

27:3 Then you must inscribe on them all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 32  said to you.

Deuteronomy 33:16

33:16 with the harvest of the earth and its fullness

and the pleasure of him who resided in the burning bush. 33 

May blessing rest on Joseph’s head,

and on the top of the head of the one set apart 34  from his brothers.


tn The words “you must fight” are not present in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “gives your brothers rest.”

tn There is some degree of paronomasia (wordplay) here: “the seventh (הַשְּׁבִיעִי, hashÿvii) day is the Sabbath (שַׁבָּת, shabbat).” Otherwise, the words have nothing in common, since “Sabbath” is derived from the verb שָׁבַת (shavat, “to cease”).

tn Heb “in your gates”; NRSV, CEV “in your towns”; TEV “in your country.”

tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

tn See note at Deut 12:12.

tn Heb “in all the sending forth of your hands.”

tn The Hebrew term שָׁפָן (shafan) may refer to the “coney” (cf. KJV, NIV) or hyrax (“rock badger,” cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).

tn This refers to wine in the early stages of fermentation. In its later stages it becomes wine (יַיִן, yayin) in its mature sense.

10 tn Heb “his neighbor” (so NAB, NIV); NASB “his friend.”

11 tn Heb “and he raises his hand with the iron.”

12 tn Heb “the iron slips off.”

13 tn Heb “finds.”

14 tn Heb “his neighbor.”

15 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person responsible for his friend’s death) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

16 tn Heb “and live.”

17 tn Heb “to fight against it to capture it.”

18 tn Heb “you must not destroy its trees by chopping them with an iron” (i.e., an ax).

19 tn Heb “you may eat from them.” The direct object is not expressed; the word “fruit” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

20 tn Heb “to go before you in siege.”

21 tn Heb “for he”; the referent (the man who made the accusation) has been specified in the translation to avoid confusion with the young woman’s father, the last-mentioned male.

22 tn Heb “brought forth a bad name.”

23 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “by all means.”

24 tn Or “righteous” (so NIV, NLT).

25 tn Heb “in the field.”

26 tn Heb “of your hands.” This law was later applied in the story of Ruth who, as a poor widow, was allowed by generous Boaz to glean in his fields (Ruth 2:1-13).

27 sn The removal of the sandal was likely symbolic of the relinquishment by the man of any claim to his dead brother’s estate since the sandal was associated with the soil or land (cf. Ruth 4:7-8). Spitting in the face was a sign of utmost disgust or disdain, an emotion the rejected widow would feel toward her uncooperative brother-in-law (cf. Num 12:14; Lev 15:8). See W. Bailey, NIDOTTE 2:544.

28 tn Heb “build the house of his brother”; TEV “refuses to give his brother a descendant”; NLT “refuses to raise up a son for his brother.”

29 tn Heb includes “the tithes of.” This has not been included in the translation to avoid redundancy.

30 tn The terms “Levite, resident foreigner, orphan, and widow” are collective singulars in the Hebrew text (also in v. 13).

31 tn Heb “gates.”

32 tn Heb “fathers.”

33 tn The expression “him who resided in the bush” is frequently understood as a reference to the appearance of the Lord to Moses at Sinai from a burning bush (so NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT; cf. Exod 2:2-6; 3:2, 4). To make this reference clear the word “burning” is supplied in the translation.

34 sn This apparently refers to Joseph’s special status among his brothers as a result of his being chosen by God to save the family from the famine and to lead Egypt.