Deuteronomy 7:13
7:13 He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, 1 with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.
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 2 God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”
Deuteronomy 21:23
21:23 his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury 3 him that same day, for the one who is left exposed 4 on a tree is cursed by God. 5 You must not defile your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 28:13
28:13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his 6 commandments which I am urging 7 you today to be careful to do.
Deuteronomy 28:68
28:68 Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
1 tn Heb “will bless the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
2 tn The Hebrew text uses the collective singular in this verse: “my God…lest I die.”
3 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates by “make certain.”
4 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.”
5 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).
6 tn Heb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
7 tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”