Deuteronomy 3:21

3:21 I also commanded Joshua at the same time, “You have seen everything the Lord your God did to these two kings; he ¹  will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going. ² 

Deuteronomy 9:7

The History of Israel’s Stubbornness

9:7 Remember – don’t ever forget ³  – how you provoked the Lord your God in the desert; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him. ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 9:10

9:10 The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger ⁵  of God, and on them was everything ⁶  he ⁷  said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

Deuteronomy 9:16

9:16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; ⁸  you had quickly turned aside from the way he ⁹  had commanded you!

Deuteronomy 26:3

26:3 You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “I declare today to the Lord your ¹⁰  God that I have come into the land that the Lord ¹¹  promised ¹²  to our ancestors ¹³  to give us.”

Deuteronomy 29:29

29:29 Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants ¹⁴  forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 31:3

31:3 As for the Lord your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the Lord has said.

Deuteronomy 32:21

32:21 They have made me jealous ¹⁵  with false gods, ¹⁶ 

enraging me with their worthless gods; ¹⁷ 

so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, ¹⁸ 

with a nation slow to learn ¹⁹  I will enrage them.

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¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” The translation uses the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

² tn Heb “which you are crossing over there.”

³ tn By juxtaposing the positive זְכֹר (zekhor, “remember”) with the negative אַל־תִּשְׁכַּח (’al-tishÿkakh, “do not forget”), Moses makes a most emphatic plea.

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord” (likewise in the following verse with both “him” and “he”). See note on “he” in 9:3.

⁵ sn The very finger of God. This is a double figure of speech (1) in which God is ascribed human features (anthropomorphism) and (2) in which a part stands for the whole (synecdoche). That is, God, as Spirit, has no literal finger nor, if he had, would he write with his finger. Rather, the sense is that God himself – not Moses in any way – was responsible for the composition of the Ten Commandments (cf. Exod 31:18; 32:16; 34:1).

⁶ tn Heb “according to all the words.”

⁷ tn Heb “the Lord” (likewise at the beginning of vv. 12, 13). See note on “he” in 9:3.

⁸ tn On the phrase “metal calf,” see note on the term “metal image” in v. 12.

⁹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

¹⁰ tc For the MT reading “your God,” certain LXX mss have “my God,” a contextually superior rendition followed by some English versions (e.g., NAB, NASB, TEV). Perhaps the text reflects dittography of the kaf (כ) at the end of the word with the following preposition כִּי (ki).

¹¹ tc The Syriac adds “your God” to complete the usual formula.

¹² tn Heb “swore on oath.”

¹³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 15).

¹⁴ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NIV, NRSV “children.”

¹⁵ sn They have made me jealous. The “jealousy” of God is not a spirit of pettiness prompted by his insecurity, but righteous indignation caused by the disloyalty of his people to his covenant grace (see note on the word “God” in Deut 4:24). The jealousy of Israel, however (see next line), will be envy because of God’s lavish attention to another nation. This is an ironic wordplay. See H. Peels, NIDOTTE 3:938-39.

¹⁶ tn Heb “what is not a god,” or a “nondeity.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “their empty (things).” The Hebrew term used here to refer pejoratively to the false gods is הֶבֶל (hevel, “futile” or “futility”), used frequently in Ecclesiastes (e.g., Eccl 1:1, “Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher, “Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”).

¹⁸ tn Heb “what is not a people,” or a “nonpeople.” The “nonpeople” (לֹא־עָם, lo’-’am) referred to here are Gentiles who someday would become God’s people in the fullest sense (cf. Hos 1:9; 2:23).

¹⁹ tn Heb “a foolish nation” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV); NIV “a nation that has no understanding”; NLT “I will provoke their fury by blessing the foolish Gentiles.”