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 9:28
9:28 Otherwise the people of the land 2 from which you brought us will say, “The Lord was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the desert.” 3
Deuteronomy 12:11
12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing 4 everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, 5 and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. 6
Deuteronomy 21:23
21:23 his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury 7 him that same day, for the one who is left exposed 8 on a tree is cursed by God. 9 You must not defile your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 24:4
24:4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry 10 her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. 11 You must not bring guilt on the land 12 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 13 commandments which I am urging 14 you today to be careful to do.
Deuteronomy 28:52
28:52 They will besiege all of your villages 15 until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 29:23
29:23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger. 16
Deuteronomy 30:16
30:16 What 17 I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess. 18
Deuteronomy 31:16
31:16 Then the Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die, 19 and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they 20 are going. They 21 will reject 22 me and break my covenant that I have made with them. 23
1 tn Heb “will bless the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
2 tc The MT reads only “the land.” Smr supplies עַם (’am, “people”) and LXX and its dependents supply “the inhabitants of the land.” The truncated form found in the MT is adequate to communicate the intended meaning; the words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, NLT).
4 tn Heb “and it will be (to) the place where the Lord your God chooses to cause his name to dwell you will bring.”
5 tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”
6 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.
7 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates by “make certain.”
8 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.”
9 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).
10 tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”
11 sn The issue here is not divorce and its grounds per se but prohibition of remarriage to a mate whom one has previously divorced.
12 tn Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).
13 tn Heb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
14 tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”
15 tn Heb “gates,” also in vv. 55, 57.
16 tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” This construction is a hendiadys intended to intensify the emotion.
17 tc A number of LXX mss insert before this verse, “if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,” thus translating אֲשֶׁר (’asher) as “which” and the rest as “I am commanding you today, to love,” etc., “then you will live,” etc.
18 tn Heb “which you are going there to possess it.” This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.
19 tn Heb “lie down with your fathers” (so NASB); NRSV “ancestors.”
20 tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they,” which is necessary in any case in the translation because of contemporary English style. The third person singular also occurs in the Hebrew text twice more in this verse, three times in v. 17, once in v. 18, five times in v. 20, and four times in v. 21. Each time it is translated as third person plural for stylistic reasons.
21 tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
22 tn Or “abandon” (TEV, NLT).
23 tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.