Deuteronomy 4:9

Reminder of the Horeb Covenant

4:9 Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 7:22

7:22 He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.

Deuteronomy 20:5

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

Deuteronomy 20:7

20:7 Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

Deuteronomy 15:9

15:9 Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend 10  him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you and you will be regarded as having sinned. 11 

Deuteronomy 18:16

18:16 This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the Lord your God: “Please do not make us hear the voice of the Lord our 12  God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”

tn Heb “watch yourself and watch your soul carefully.”

tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 7:19.

tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).

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

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).

tn Heb “another man.”

tn Heb “Who [is] the man.”

tn Heb “your eye.”

tn Heb “your needy brother.”

10 tn Heb “give” (likewise in v. 10).

11 tn Heb “it will be a sin to you.”

12 tn The Hebrew text uses the collective singular in this verse: “my God…lest I die.”