Deuteronomy 3:5-6

3:5 All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; ¹  in addition there were a great many open villages. ²  3:6 We put all of these under divine judgment ³  just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, ⁴  including women and children.

Deuteronomy 3:28

3:28 Commission ⁵  Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, because he will lead these people over and will enable them to inherit the land you will see.”

Deuteronomy 4:30

4:30 In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, ⁶  if you return to the Lord your God and obey him ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 4:43

4:43 These cities are Bezer, in the desert plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassehites.

Deuteronomy 4:45

4:45 These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 5:28

5:28 When the Lord heard you speaking to me, he ⁸  said to me, “I have heard what these people have said to you – they have spoken well.

Deuteronomy 7:12

Promises of Good for Covenant Obedience

7:12 If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the Lord your God will faithfully keep covenant with you ⁹  as he promised ¹⁰  your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 10:21

10:21 He is the one you should praise; ¹¹  he is your God, the one who has done these great and awesome things for you that you have seen.

Deuteronomy 11:18

11:18 Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, ¹²  and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols ¹³  on your forehead.

Deuteronomy 11:23

11:23 then he ¹⁴  will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

Deuteronomy 12:22

12:22 Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

Deuteronomy 19:11

19:11 However, suppose a person hates someone else ¹⁵  and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, ¹⁶  and then flees to one of these cities.

Deuteronomy 20:15

20:15 This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

Deuteronomy 25:3

25:3 The judge ¹⁷  may sentence him to forty blows, ¹⁸  but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite ¹⁹  with contempt.

Deuteronomy 26:16

Narrative Interlude

26:16 Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul. ²⁰ 

Deuteronomy 27:4

27:4 So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal ²¹  these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.

Deuteronomy 30:7

30:7 Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

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¹ tn Or “high walls and barred gates” (NLT); Heb “high walls, gates, and bars.” Since “bars” could be understood to mean “saloons,” the qualifying adjective “locking” has been supplied in the translation.

² tn The Hebrew term פְּרָזִי (pÿraziy) refers to rural areas, at the most “unwalled villages” (KJV, NASB “unwalled towns”).

³ tn Heb “we put them under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). See note at 2:34.

sn The divine curse. See note on this phrase in Deut 2:34.

⁴ tn Heb “city of men.”

⁵ tn Heb “command”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “charge Joshua.”

⁶ sn The phrase is not used here in a technical sense for the eschaton, but rather refers to a future time when Israel will be punished for its sin and experience exile. See Deut 31:29.

⁷ tn Heb “hear his voice.” The expression is an idiom meaning “obey,” occurring in Deut 8:20; 9:23; 13:18; 21:18, 20; 26:14, 17; 27:10; 28:1-2, 15, 45, 62; 30:2, 8, 10, 20.

⁸ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “He” in 5:3.

⁹ tn Heb “will keep with you the covenant and loyalty.” On the construction used here, see v. 9.

¹⁰ tn Heb “which he swore on oath.” The relative pronoun modifies “covenant,” so one could translate “will keep faithfully the covenant (or promise) he made on oath to your ancestors.”

¹¹ tn Heb “your praise.” The pronoun is subjective and the noun “praise” is used here metonymically for the object of their praise (the Lord).

¹² tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

¹³ tn On the Hebrew term טוֹטָפֹת (totafot, “reminders”), cf. Deut 6:4-9.

¹⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

¹⁵ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “rises against him and strikes him fatally.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the judge) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁸ tn Heb “Forty blows he may strike him”; however, since the judge is to witness the punishment (v. 2) it is unlikely the judge himself administered it.

¹⁹ tn Heb “your brothers” but not limited only to an actual sibling; cf. NAB) “your kinsman”; NRSV, NLT “your neighbor.”

²⁰ tn Or “mind and being”; cf. NCV “with your whole being”; TEV “obey them faithfully with all your heart.”

²¹ tc Smr reads “Mount Gerizim” for the MT reading “Mount Ebal” to justify the location of the Samaritan temple there in the postexilic period. This reading is patently self-serving and does not reflect the original. In the NT when the Samaritan woman of Sychar referred to “this mountain” as the place of worship for her community she obviously had Gerizim in mind (cf. John 4:20).