Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:15-16 
Context1:15 So I chose 1 as your tribal leaders wise and well-known men, placing them over you as administrators of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and also as other tribal officials. 1:16 I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they 2 should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens 3 and judge fairly, 4 whether between one citizen and another 5 or a citizen and a resident foreigner. 6
Deuteronomy 1:36
Context1:36 The exception is Caleb son of Jephunneh; 7 he will see it and I will give him and his descendants the territory on which he has walked, because he has wholeheartedly followed me.” 8
Deuteronomy 1:39
Context1:39 Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, 9 and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, 10 will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.
Deuteronomy 1:42
Context1:42 But the Lord told me: “Tell them this: ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.’”
Deuteronomy 2:24-25
Context2:24 Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, 11 and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war! 2:25 This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth 12 with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.” 13
Deuteronomy 2:29
Context2:29 just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the Lord our God is giving us.”
Deuteronomy 2:31
Context2:31 The Lord said to me, “Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession.”
Deuteronomy 3:12-13
Context3:12 This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer 14 by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites. 15 3:13 The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. 16 (All the region of Argob, 17 that is, all Bashan, is called the land of Rephaim.
Deuteronomy 3:16
Context3:16 To the Reubenites and Gadites I allocated the territory extending from Gilead as far as Wadi Arnon (the exact middle of the wadi was a boundary) all the way to the Wadi Jabbok, the Ammonite border.
Deuteronomy 3:18
Context3:18 At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites 18 equipped for battle.
Deuteronomy 3:21
Context3:21 I also commanded Joshua at the same time, “You have seen everything the Lord your God did to these two kings; he 19 will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going. 20
Deuteronomy 4:5
Context4:5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in 21 the land you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 4:16
Context4:16 I say this 22 so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,
Deuteronomy 5:1
Context5:1 Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them: 23 “Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!
Deuteronomy 5:5
Context5:5 (I was standing between the Lord and you at that time to reveal to you the message 24 of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:
Deuteronomy 6:2
Context6:2 and that you may so revere the Lord your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments 25 that I am giving 26 you – you, your children, and your grandchildren – all your lives, to prolong your days.
Deuteronomy 8:1
Context8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments 27 I am giving 28 you today so that you may live, increase in number, 29 and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. 30
Deuteronomy 8:19
Context8:19 Now if you forget the Lord your God at all 31 and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.
Deuteronomy 9:16
Context9:16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; 32 you had quickly turned aside from the way he 33 had commanded you!
Deuteronomy 9:21
Context9:21 As for your sinful thing 34 that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, 35 ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
Deuteronomy 9:23
Context9:23 And when he 36 sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God 37 and would neither believe nor obey him.
Deuteronomy 9:26
Context9:26 I prayed to him: 38 O, Lord God, 39 do not destroy your people, your valued property 40 that you have powerfully redeemed, 41 whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength. 42
Deuteronomy 11:2
Context11:2 Bear in mind today that I am not speaking 43 to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments 44 of the Lord your God, which revealed 45 his greatness, strength, and power. 46
Deuteronomy 11:8
Context11:8 Now pay attention to all the commandments 47 I am giving 48 you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed, 49
Deuteronomy 11:13-14
Context11:13 Now, if you pay close attention 50 to my commandments that I am giving you today and love 51 the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being, 52 11:14 then he promises, 53 “I will send rain for your land 54 in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, 55 so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.
Deuteronomy 11:22
Context11:22 For if you carefully observe all of these commandments 56 I am giving you 57 and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, 58 and remain loyal to him,
Deuteronomy 11:28
Context11:28 and the curse if you pay no attention 59 to his 60 commandments and turn from the way I am setting before 61 you today to pursue 62 other gods you have not known.
Deuteronomy 15:11
Context15:11 There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open 63 your hand to your fellow Israelites 64 who are needy and poor in your land.
Deuteronomy 17:14
Context17:14 When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, “I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”
Deuteronomy 18:20
Context18:20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized 65 him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.
Deuteronomy 18:22
Context18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my 66 name and the prediction 67 is not fulfilled, 68 then I have 69 not spoken it; 70 the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”
Deuteronomy 19:9
Context19:9 and then you are careful to observe all these commandments 71 I am giving 72 you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities 73 to these three.
Deuteronomy 26:10
Context26:10 So now, look! I have brought the first of the ground’s produce that you, Lord, have given me.” Then you must set it down before the Lord your God and worship before him. 74
Deuteronomy 28:1
Context28:1 “If you indeed 75 obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving 76 you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:15
Context28:15 “But if you ignore 77 the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: 78
Deuteronomy 28:67
Context28:67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.
Deuteronomy 30:1
Context30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses 79 I have set before you, you will reflect upon them 80 in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.
Deuteronomy 31:14
Context31:14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The day of your death is near. Summon Joshua and present yourselves in the tent 81 of meeting 82 so that I can commission him.” 83 So Moses and Joshua presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
Deuteronomy 31:28
Context31:28 Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.
Deuteronomy 32:24
Context32:24 They will be starved by famine,
eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; 84
I will send the teeth of wild animals against them,
along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.
Deuteronomy 32:35
Context32:35 I will get revenge and pay them back
at the time their foot slips;
for the day of their disaster is near,
and the impending judgment 85 is rushing upon them!”
Deuteronomy 32:42
Context32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and my sword will devour flesh –
the blood of the slaughtered and captured,
the chief 86 of the enemy’s leaders!’”
Deuteronomy 32:46
Context32:46 he said to them, “Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 32:49
Context32:49 “Go up to this Abarim 87 hill country, to Mount Nebo (which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho 88 ) and look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.
Deuteronomy 33:9
Context33:9 He said to his father and mother, “I have not seen him,” 89
and he did not acknowledge his own brothers
or know his own children,
for they kept your word,
and guarded your covenant.
1 tn Or “selected”; Heb “took.”
2 tn Or “you.” A number of English versions treat the remainder of this verse and v. 17 as direct discourse rather than indirect discourse (cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
3 tn Heb “brothers.” The term “brothers” could, in English, be understood to refer to siblings, so “fellow citizens” has been used in the translation.
4 tn The Hebrew word צֶדֶק (tsedeq, “fairly”) carries the basic idea of conformity to a norm of expected behavior or character, one established by God himself. Fair judgment adheres strictly to that norm or standard (see D. Reimer, NIDOTTE 3:750).
5 tn Heb “between a man and his brother.”
6 tn Heb “his stranger” or “his sojourner”; NAB, NIV “an alien”; NRSV “resident alien.” The Hebrew word גֵּר (ger) commonly means “foreigner.”
7 sn Caleb had, with Joshua, brought back to Israel a minority report from Canaan urging a conquest of the land, for he was confident of the
8 tn Heb “the
9 tn Heb “would be a prey.”
10 sn Do not know good from bad. This is a figure of speech called a merism (suggesting a whole by referring to its extreme opposites). Other examples are the tree of “the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen 2:9), the boy who knows enough “to reject the wrong and choose the right” (Isa 7:16; 8:4), and those who “cannot tell their right hand from their left” (Jonah 4:11). A young child is characterized by lack of knowledge.
11 sn Heshbon is the name of a prominent site (now Tell Hesba„n, about 7.5 mi [12 km] south southwest of Amman, Jordan). Sihon made it his capital after having driven Moab from the area and forced them south to the Arnon (Num 21:26-30). Heshbon is also mentioned in Deut 1:4.
12 tn Heb “under heaven” (so NIV, NRSV).
13 tn Heb “from before you.”
14 tn The words “the territory extending” are not in the Hebrew text; they are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
sn Aroer. See note on this term in Deut 2:36.
15 sn Reubenites and Gadites. By the time of Moses’ address the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had already been granted permission to settle in the Transjordan, provided they helped the other tribes subdue the occupants of Canaan (cf. Num 32:28-42).
16 sn Half the tribe of Manasseh. The tribe of Manasseh split into clans, with half opting to settle in Bashan and the other half in Canaan (cf. Num 32:39-42; Josh 17:1-13).
17 sn Argob. See note on this term in v. 4.
18 tn Heb “your brothers, the sons of Israel.”
19 tn Heb “the
20 tn Heb “which you are crossing over there.”
21 tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).
22 tn The words “I say this” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text v. 16 is subordinated to “Be careful” in v. 15, but this makes for an unduly long sentence in English.
23 tn Heb “and Moses called to all Israel and he said to them”; NAB, NASB, NIV “Moses summoned (convened NRSV) all Israel.”
24 tn Or “word” (so KJV, NASB, NIV); NRSV “words.”
25 tn Here the terms are not the usual חֻקִּים (khuqqim) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim; as in v. 1) but חֻקֹּת (khuqqot, “statutes”) and מִצְוֹת (mitsot, “commandments”). It is clear that these terms are used interchangeably and that their technical precision ought not be overly stressed.
26 tn Heb “commanding.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation.
27 tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).
28 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).
29 tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”
30 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).
31 tn Heb “if forgetting, you forget.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis; the translation indicates this with the words “at all” (cf. KJV).
32 tn On the phrase “metal calf,” see note on the term “metal image” in v. 12.
33 tn Heb “the
34 tn Heb “your sin.” This is a metonymy in which the effect (sin) stands for the cause (the metal calf).
35 tn Heb “burned it with fire.”
36 tn Heb “the
37 tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.
38 tn Heb “the
39 tn Heb “Lord
40 tn Heb “your inheritance”; NLT “your special (very own NRSV) possession.” Israel is compared to landed property that one would inherit from his ancestors and pass on to his descendants.
41 tn Heb “you have redeemed in your greatness.”
42 tn Heb “by your strong hand.”
43 tn Heb “that not.” The words “I am speaking” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
44 tn Heb “who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the Lord.” The collocation of the verbs “know” and “see” indicates that personal experience (knowing by seeing) is in view. The term translated “discipline” (KJV, ASV “chastisement”) may also be rendered “instruction,” but vv. 2b-6 indicate that the referent of the term is the various acts of divine judgment the Israelites had witnessed.
45 tn The words “which revealed” have been supplied in the translation to show the logical relationship between the terms that follow and the divine judgments. In the Hebrew text the former are in apposition to the latter.
46 tn Heb “his strong hand and his stretched-out arm.”
47 tn Heb “the commandment.” The singular מִצְוָה (mitsvah, “commandment”) speaks here as elsewhere of the whole corpus of covenant stipulations in Deuteronomy (cf. 6:1, 25; 7:11; 8:1).
48 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in vv. 13, 27).
49 tn Heb “which you are crossing over there to possess it.”
50 tn Heb “if hearing, you will hear.” The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute to emphasize the verbal idea. The translation renders this emphasis with the word “close.”
51 tn Again, the Hebrew term אָהַב (’ahav) draws attention to the reciprocation of divine love as a condition or sign of covenant loyalty (cf. Deut 6:5).
52 tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.
53 tn The words “he promises” do not appear in the Hebrew text but are needed in the translation to facilitate the transition from the condition (v. 13) to the promise and make it clear that the Lord is speaking the words of vv. 14-15.
54 tn Heb “the rain of your land.” In this case the genitive (modifying term) indicates the recipient of the rain.
55 sn The autumn and the spring rains. The “former” (יוֹרֶה, yoreh) and “latter” (מַלְקוֹשׁ, malqosh) rains come in abundance respectively in September/October and March/April. Planting of most crops takes place before the former rains fall and the harvests follow the latter rains.
56 tn Heb “this commandment.” See note at Deut 5:30.
57 tn Heb “commanding you to do it.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation and “to do it” has been left untranslated.
58 tn Heb “walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV); TEV “do everything he commands.”
59 tn Heb “do not listen to,” that is, do not obey.
60 tn Heb “the commandments of the
61 tn Heb “am commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).
62 tn Heb “walk after”; NIV “by following”; NLT “by worshiping.” This is a violation of the first commandment, the most serious of the covenant violations (Deut 5:6-7).
63 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “make sure.”
64 tn Heb “your brother.”
65 tn Or “commanded” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).
66 tn Heb “the
67 tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”
68 tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”
69 tn Heb “the
70 tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”
71 tn Heb “all this commandment.” This refers here to the entire covenant agreement of the Book of Deuteronomy as encapsulated in the Shema (Deut 6:4-5).
72 tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today.”
73 sn You will add three more cities. Since these are alluded to nowhere else and thus were probably never added, this must be a provision for other cities of refuge should they be needed (cf. v. 8). See P. C. Craigie, Deuteronomy (NICOT), 267.
74 tn Heb “the
75 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”
76 tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).
77 tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”
78 tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”
79 tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”
80 tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”
81 tc The LXX reads “by the door of the tent” in line with v. 10 but also, perhaps, as a reflection of its tendency to avoid over-familiarity with Yahweh and his transcendence.
82 tn Heb “tent of assembly” (מוֹעֵד אֹהֶל, ’ohel mo’ed); this is not always the same as the tabernacle, which is usually called מִשְׁכָּן (mishkan, “dwelling-place”), a reference to its being invested with God’s presence. The “tent of meeting” was erected earlier than the tabernacle and was the place where Yahweh occasionally appeared, especially to Moses (cf. Exod 18:7-16; 33:7-11; Num 11:16, 24, 26; 12:4).
83 tn Heb “I will command him.”
84 tn The Hebrew term קֶטֶב (qetev) is probably metaphorical here for the sting of a disease (HALOT 1091-92 s.v.).
85 tn Heb “prepared things,” “impending things.” See BDB 800 s.v. עָתִיד.
86 tn Or “head” (the same Hebrew word can mean “head” in the sense of “leader, chieftain” or “head” in the sense of body part).
87 sn Abarim. This refers to the high plateau region of the Transjordan, the highest elevation of which is Mount Pisgah (or Nebo; cf. Deut 34:1). See also the note on the name “Pisgah” in Deut 3:17.
88 map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
89 sn This statement no doubt alludes to the Levites’ destruction of their own fellow tribesmen following the golden calf incident (Exod 32:25-29).
