Deuteronomy 4:25

Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience

4:25 After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, ¹  if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind ²  and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him, ³ 

Deuteronomy 13:17

13:17 You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. ⁴  Then the Lord will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 19:14

Laws Concerning Witnesses

19:14 You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, ⁵  which will have been defined ⁶  in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 21:3

21:3 Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse ⁸  must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked – that has never pulled with the yoke –

Deuteronomy 31:27

31:27 for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. ⁹  Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the Lord; you will be even more rebellious after my death! ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 32:22

32:22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger,

and it burns to lowest Sheol; ¹¹ 

it consumes the earth and its produce,

and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

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¹ tn Heb “have grown old in the land,” i.e., been there for a long time.

² tn Heb “a form of anything.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, TEV “an idol.”

³ tn The infinitive construct is understood here as indicating the result, not the intention, of their actions.

⁴ tn Or “anything that has been put under the divine curse”; Heb “anything of the ban” (cf. NASB). See note on the phrase “divine judgment” in Deut 2:34.

⁵ tn Heb “border.” Cf. NRSV “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker.”

⁶ tn Heb “which they set off from the beginning.”

⁷ tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.” This phrase has been left untranslated to avoid redundancy.

⁸ tn Heb “slain [one].”

⁹ tn Heb “stiffness of neck” (cf. KJV, NAB, NIV). See note on the word “stubborn” in Deut 9:6.

¹⁰ tn Heb “How much more after my death?” The Hebrew text has a sarcastic rhetorical question here; the translation seeks to bring out the force of the question.

¹¹ tn Or “to the lowest depths of the earth”; cf. NAB “to the depths of the nether world”; NIV “to the realm of death below”; NLT “to the depths of the grave.”

sn Sheol refers here not to hell and hell-fire – a much later concept – but to the innermost parts of the earth, as low down as one could get. The parallel with “the foundations of the mountains” makes this clear (cf. Pss 9:17; 16:10; 139:8; Isa 14:9, 15; Amos 9:2).