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 9:18

9:18 Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.

Deuteronomy 13:13

13:13 some evil people ⁴  have departed from among you to entice the inhabitants of their cities, ⁵  saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods” (whom you have not known before). ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 17:7

17:7 The witnesses ⁷  must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people ⁸  are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 17:12

17:12 The person who pays no attention ⁹  to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:22

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ¹⁰  a married woman ¹¹  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ¹²  evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 24:7

24:7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, ¹³  and regards him as mere property ¹⁴  and sells him, that kidnapper ¹⁵  must die. In this way you will purge ¹⁶  evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 28:20

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you ¹⁷  in everything you undertake ¹⁸  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. ¹⁹ 

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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 Heb “men, sons of Belial.” The Hebrew term בְּלִיַּעַל (bÿliyya’al) has the idea of worthlessness, without morals or scruples (HALOT 133-34 s.v.). Cf. NAB, NRSV “scoundrels”; TEV, CEV “worthless people”; NLT “worthless rabble.”

⁵ tc The LXX and Tg read “your” for the MT’s “their.”

⁶ tn The translation understands the relative clause as a statement by Moses, not as part of the quotation from the evildoers. See also v. 2.

⁷ tn Heb “the hand of the witnesses.” This means the two or three witnesses are to throw the first stones (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

⁸ tn Heb “the hand of all the people.”

⁹ tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).

¹⁰ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

¹¹ tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

¹² tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

¹³ tn Heb “from his brothers, from the sons of Israel.” The terms “brothers” and “sons of Israel” are in apposition; the second defines the first more specifically.

¹⁴ tn Or “and enslaves him.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “that thief.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the word “purge” in Deut 19:19.

¹⁷ tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

¹⁹ tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.

tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”