Deuteronomy 5:24
5:24 You said, “The Lord our God has shown us his great glory 1 and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us 2 that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.
Deuteronomy 10:8
10:8 At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi 3 to carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand before the Lord to serve him, and to formulate blessings 4 in his name, as they do to this very day.
Deuteronomy 12:11
12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing 5 everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, 6 and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. 7
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 8 be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite 9 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 16:11
16:11 You shall rejoice before him 12 – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, 13 the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.
Deuteronomy 16:16
16:16 Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him 14 empty-handed.
Deuteronomy 17:19
17:19 It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.
Deuteronomy 21:23
21:23 his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury 15 him that same day, for the one who is left exposed 16 on a tree is cursed by God. 17 You must not defile your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 22:2
22:2 If the owner 18 does not live 19 near you or you do not know who the owner is, 20 then you must corral the animal 21 at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.
Deuteronomy 22:19
22:19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation 22 ruined the reputation 23 of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
Deuteronomy 24:13
24:13 You must by all means 24 return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just 25 deed by the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 25:9
25:9 then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. 26 She will then respond, “Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother’s family line!” 27
Deuteronomy 31:29
31:29 For I know that after I die you will totally 28 corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly 29 before the Lord, inciting him to anger because of your actions.” 30
Deuteronomy 33:16-17
33:16 with the harvest of the earth and its fullness
and the pleasure of him who resided in the burning bush. 31
May blessing rest on Joseph’s head,
and on the top of the head of the one set apart 32 from his brothers.
33:17 May the firstborn of his bull bring him honor,
and may his horns be those of a wild ox;
with them may he gore all peoples,
all the far reaches of the earth.
They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, 33
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
1 tn Heb “his glory and his greatness.”
2 tn Heb “this day we have seen.”
3 sn The Lord set apart the tribe of Levi. This was not the initial commissioning of the tribe of Levi to this ministry (cf. Num 3:11-13; 8:12-26), but with Aaron’s death it seemed appropriate to Moses to reiterate Levi’s responsibilities. There is no reference in the Book of Numbers to this having been done, but the account of Eleazar’s succession to the priesthood there (Num 20:25-28) would provide a setting for this to have occurred.
4 sn To formulate blessings. The most famous example of this is the priestly “blessing formula” of Num 6:24-26.
5 tn Heb “and it will be (to) the place where the Lord your God chooses to cause his name to dwell you will bring.”
6 tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”
7 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.
8 tn Heb “your eye.”
9 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 Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.
13 tn Heb “gates.”
14 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 16:1.
15 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates by “make certain.”
16 tn Heb “hung,” but this could convey the wrong image in English (hanging with a rope as a means of execution). Cf. NCV “anyone whose body is displayed on a tree.”
17 sn The idea behind the phrase cursed by God seems to be not that the person was impaled because he was cursed but that to leave him exposed there was to invite the curse of God upon the whole land. Why this would be so is not clear, though the rabbinic idea that even a criminal is created in the image of God may give some clue (thus J. H. Tigay, Deuteronomy [JPSTC], 198). Paul cites this text (see Gal 3:13) to make the point that Christ, suspended from a cross, thereby took upon himself the curse associated with such a display of divine wrath and judgment (T. George, Galatians [NAC], 238-39).
18 tn Heb “your brother” (also later in this verse).
19 tn Heb “is not.” The idea of “residing” is implied.
20 tn Heb “and you do not know him.”
21 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the ox or sheep mentioned in v. 1) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 tn Heb “for he”; the referent (the man who made the accusation) has been specified in the translation to avoid confusion with the young woman’s father, the last-mentioned male.
23 tn Heb “brought forth a bad name.”
24 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “by all means.”
25 tn Or “righteous” (so NIV, NLT).
26 sn The removal of the sandal was likely symbolic of the relinquishment by the man of any claim to his dead brother’s estate since the sandal was associated with the soil or land (cf. Ruth 4:7-8). Spitting in the face was a sign of utmost disgust or disdain, an emotion the rejected widow would feel toward her uncooperative brother-in-law (cf. Num 12:14; Lev 15:8). See W. Bailey, NIDOTTE 2:544.
27 tn Heb “build the house of his brother”; TEV “refuses to give his brother a descendant”; NLT “refuses to raise up a son for his brother.”
28 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “totally.”
29 tn Heb “do the evil.”
30 tn Heb “the work of your hands.”
31 tn The expression “him who resided in the bush” is frequently understood as a reference to the appearance of the Lord to Moses at Sinai from a burning bush (so NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT; cf. Exod 2:2-6; 3:2, 4). To make this reference clear the word “burning” is supplied in the translation.
32 sn This apparently refers to Joseph’s special status among his brothers as a result of his being chosen by God to save the family from the famine and to lead Egypt.
33 sn Ephraim and Manasseh were the sons of Joseph who became founders of the two tribes into which Joseph’s descendants were split (Gen 48:19-20). Jacob’s blessing granted favored status to Ephraim; this is probably why Ephraim is viewed here as more numerous than Manasseh.