Deuteronomy 4:14

4:14 Moreover, at that same time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess. ¹ 

Deuteronomy 17:16

17:16 Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, ²  for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.

Deuteronomy 20:5

20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, ³  “Who among you ⁴  has built a new house and not dedicated ⁵  it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else ⁶  dedicate it.

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¹ tn Heb “to which you are crossing over to possess it.”

² tn Heb “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV).

³ tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).

⁴ tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).

⁵ tn The Hebrew term חָנַךְ (khanakh) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form (חָנֻכָּה, khanukah) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar (2 Chr 7:9) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).

⁶ tn Heb “another man.”