Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:14 
Context1:14 You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.
Deuteronomy 1:18
Context1:18 So I instructed you at that time regarding everything you should do.
Deuteronomy 6:16
Context6:16 You must not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah. 1
Deuteronomy 8:12
Context8:12 When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,
Deuteronomy 9:24
Context9:24 You have been rebelling against him 2 from the very first day I knew you!
Deuteronomy 10:19
Context10:19 So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 12:13
Context12:13 Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,
Deuteronomy 12:24
Context12:24 You must not eat it! You must pour it out on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 14:9
Context14:9 These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,
Deuteronomy 15:5
Context15:5 if you carefully obey 3 him 4 by keeping 5 all these commandments that I am giving 6 you today.
Deuteronomy 15:13
Context15:13 If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.
Deuteronomy 22:12
Context22:12 You shall make yourselves tassels 7 for the four corners of the clothing you wear.
Deuteronomy 27:10
Context27:10 You must obey him 8 and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”
Deuteronomy 28:2
Context28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance 9 if you obey the Lord your God:
Deuteronomy 30:8
Context30:8 You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving 10 you today.
1 sn The place name Massah (מַסָּה, massah) derives from a root (נָסָה, nasah) meaning “to test; to try.” The reference here is to the experience in the Sinai desert when Moses struck the rock to obtain water (Exod 17:1-2). The complaining Israelites had, thus, “tested” the
2 tn Heb “the
3 tn Heb “if listening you listen to the voice of.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “carefully.” The idiom “listen to the voice” means “obey.”
4 tn Heb “the
5 tn Heb “by being careful to do.”
6 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB); NAB “which I enjoin you today.”
7 tn Heb “twisted threads” (גְּדִלִים, gÿdilim) appears to be synonymous with צִיצִת (tsitsit) which, in Num 15:38, occurs in a passage instructing Israel to remember the covenant. Perhaps that is the purpose of the tassels here as well. Cf. KJV, ASV “fringes”; NAB “twisted cords.”
8 tn Heb “listen to the voice of the
9 tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”
10 tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I now enjoin on you.”
