Deuteronomy 3:24

3:24 “O, Lord God, ¹  you have begun to show me ²  your greatness and strength. ³  (What god in heaven or earth can rival your works and mighty deeds?)

Deuteronomy 7:2

7:2 and he ⁴  delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate ⁵  them. Make no treaty ⁶  with them and show them no mercy!

Deuteronomy 10:15

10:15 However, only to your ancestors did he ⁷  show his loving favor, ⁸  and he chose you, their descendants, ⁹  from all peoples – as is apparent today.

Deuteronomy 16:19

16:19 You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort ¹⁰  the words of the righteous. ¹¹ 

Deuteronomy 32:20

32:20 He said, “I will reject them, ¹² 

I will see what will happen to them;

for they are a perverse generation,

children ¹³  who show no loyalty.

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¹ tn Heb “Lord Lord.” The phrase אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה (’adonay yÿhvih) is customarily rendered by Jewish tradition as “Lord God.” Cf. NIV, TEV, NLT “Sovereign Lord.”

² tn Heb “your servant.” The pronoun is used in the translation to clarify that Moses is speaking of himself, since in contemporary English one does not usually refer to oneself in third person.

³ tn Heb “your strong hand” (so NIV), a symbol of God’s activity.

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁵ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive absolute before the finite verb emphasizes the statement. The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. Cf. ASV “shalt (must NRSV) utterly destroy them”; CEV “must destroy them without mercy.”

⁶ tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”

⁷ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

⁸ tn Heb “take delight to love.” Here again the verb אָהַב (’ahav, “love”), juxtaposed with בָחַר (bakhar, “choose”), is a term in covenant contexts that describes the Lord’s initiative in calling the patriarchal ancestors to be the founders of a people special to him (cf. the note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37).

⁹ tn The Hebrew text includes “after them,” but it is redundant in English style and has not been included in the translation.

¹⁰ tn Heb “twist, overturn”; NRSV “subverts the cause.”

¹¹ tn Or “innocent”; NRSV “those who are in the right”; NLT “the godly.”

¹² tn Heb “I will hide my face from them.”

¹³ tn Heb “sons” (so NAB, NASB); TEV “unfaithful people.”