Deuteronomy 1:11
Context1:11 Indeed, may the Lord, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you 1 just as he said he would!
Deuteronomy 4:38
Context4:38 to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property. 2
Deuteronomy 9:14
Context9:14 Stand aside 3 and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, 4 and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”
Deuteronomy 11:23
Context11:23 then he 5 will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
Deuteronomy 25:3
Context25:3 The judge 6 may sentence him to forty blows, 7 but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite 8 with contempt.
1 tn Heb “may he bless you.”
2 tn Heb “(as) an inheritance,” that is, landed property that one can pass on to one’s descendants.
3 tn Heb “leave me alone.”
4 tn Heb “from under heaven.”
5 tn Heb “the
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the judge) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “Forty blows he may strike him”; however, since the judge is to witness the punishment (v. 2) it is unlikely the judge himself administered it.
8 tn Heb “your brothers” but not limited only to an actual sibling; cf. NAB) “your kinsman”; NRSV, NLT “your neighbor.”