Deuteronomy 4:5

4:5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in ¹  the land you are about to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 5:29

5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey ²  all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 10:3

10:3 So I made an ark of acacia ³  wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Deuteronomy 11:13

11:13 Now, if you pay close attention ⁴  to my commandments that I am giving you today and love ⁵  the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being, ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 18:18

18:18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

Deuteronomy 18:20

18:20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized ⁷  him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

Deuteronomy 18:22

18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my ⁸  name and the prediction ⁹  is not fulfilled, ¹⁰  then I have ¹¹  not spoken it; ¹²  the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”

Deuteronomy 31:19

31:19 Now write down for yourselves the following song and teach it to the Israelites. Put it into their very mouths so that this song may serve as my witness against the Israelites!

Deuteronomy 31:27

31:27 for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. ¹³  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! ¹⁴ 

Deuteronomy 32:22

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

and it burns to lowest Sheol; ¹⁵ 

it consumes the earth and its produce,

and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

Deuteronomy 32:39

The Vindication of the Lord

32:39 “See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, ¹⁶ 

“and there is no other god besides me.

I kill and give life,

I smash and I heal,

and none can resist ¹⁷  my power.

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¹ tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).

² tn Heb “keep” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

³ sn Acacia wood (Heb “shittim wood”). This is wood from the acacia, the most common timber tree of the Sinai region. Most likely it is the species Acacia raddiana because this has the largest trunk. See F. N. Hepper, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Bible Plants, 63.

⁴ tn Heb “if hearing, you will hear.” The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute to emphasize the verbal idea. The translation renders this emphasis with the word “close.”

⁵ tn Again, the Hebrew term אָהַב (’ahav) draws attention to the reciprocation of divine love as a condition or sign of covenant loyalty (cf. Deut 6:5).

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

⁷ tn Or “commanded” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

⁸ tn Heb “the Lord’s.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

⁹ tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”

¹¹ tn Heb “the Lord has.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

¹² tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”

¹³ tn Heb “stiffness of neck” (cf. KJV, NAB, NIV). See note on the word “stubborn” in Deut 9:6.

¹⁴ 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.

¹⁵ 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).

¹⁶ tn Verses 39-42 appear to be a quotation of the Lord and so the introductory phrase “says the Lord” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷ tn Heb “deliver from” (so NRSV, NLT).