Deuteronomy 9:10

9:10 The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger ¹  of God, and on them was everything ²  he ³  said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

Deuteronomy 28:58

The Curse of Covenant Termination

28:58 “If you refuse to obey ⁴  all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,

Deuteronomy 29:20-21

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger ⁵  will rage ⁶  against that man; all the curses ⁷  written in this scroll will fall upon him ⁸  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. ⁹  29:21 The Lord will single him out ¹⁰  for judgment ¹¹  from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.

Deuteronomy 30:10

30:10 if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him ¹²  with your whole mind and being.

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¹ sn The very finger of God. This is a double figure of speech (1) in which God is ascribed human features (anthropomorphism) and (2) in which a part stands for the whole (synecdoche). That is, God, as Spirit, has no literal finger nor, if he had, would he write with his finger. Rather, the sense is that God himself – not Moses in any way – was responsible for the composition of the Ten Commandments (cf. Exod 31:18; 32:16; 34:1).

² tn Heb “according to all the words.”

³ tn Heb “the Lord” (likewise at the beginning of vv. 12, 13). See note on “he” in 9:3.

⁴ tn Heb “If you are not careful to do.”

⁵ tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

⁶ tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

⁷ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

⁸ tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

⁹ tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “set him apart.”

¹¹ tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”

¹² tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.