Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:15 
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.
Deuteronomy 1:25
Context1:25 Then they took 2 some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, “The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.”
Deuteronomy 1:39
Context1:39 Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, 3 and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, 4 will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.
Deuteronomy 3:17
Context3:17 The Arabah and the Jordan River 5 were also a border, from the sea of Chinnereth 6 to the sea of the Arabah (that is, the Salt Sea), 7 beneath the watershed 8 of Pisgah 9 to the east.
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 10 will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going. 11
Deuteronomy 8:3
Context8:3 So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. 12 He did this to teach you 13 that humankind 14 cannot live by bread 15 alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord’s mouth. 16
Deuteronomy 10:1
Context10:1 At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark. 17
Deuteronomy 14:8
Context14:8 Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, 18 it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.
Deuteronomy 30:5-6
Context30:5 Then he 19 will bring you to the land your ancestors 20 possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors. 30:6 The Lord your God will also cleanse 21 your heart and the hearts of your descendants 22 so that you may love him 23 with all your mind and being and so that you may live.
Deuteronomy 31:13
Context31:13 Then their children, who have not known this law, 24 will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
1 tn Or “selected”; Heb “took.”
2 tn The Hebrew text includes “in their hand,” which is unnecessary and somewhat redundant in English style.
3 tn Heb “would be a prey.”
4 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.
5 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity (also in vv. 20, 25).
6 tn Heb “from Chinnereth.” The words “the sea of” have been supplied in the translation as a clarification.
sn Chinnereth. This is another name for the Sea of Galilee, so called because its shape is that of a harp (the Hebrew term for “harp” is כִּנּוֹר, kinnor).
7 sn The Salt Sea is another name for the Dead Sea (cf. Gen 14:3; Josh 3:16).
8 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term אַשְׁדֹּת (’ashdot) is unclear. It is usually translated either “slopes” (ASV, NAB, NIV) or “watershed” (NEB).
9 sn Pisgah. This appears to refer to a small range of mountains, the most prominent peak of which is Mount Nebo (Num 21:20; 23:14; Deut 3:27; cf. 34:1).
10 tn Heb “the
11 tn Heb “which you are crossing over there.”
12 tn Heb “manna which you and your ancestors did not know.” By popular etymology the word “manna” comes from the Hebrew phrase מָן הוּא (man hu’), i.e., “What is it?” (Exod 16:15). The question remains unanswered to this very day. Elsewhere the material is said to be “white like coriander seed” with “a taste like honey cakes” (Exod 16:31; cf. Num 11:7). Modern attempts to associate it with various desert plants are unsuccessful for the text says it was a new thing and, furthermore, one that appeared and disappeared miraculously (Exod 16:21-27).
13 tn Heb “in order to make known to you.” In the Hebrew text this statement is subordinated to what precedes, resulting in a very long sentence in English. The translation makes this statement a separate sentence for stylistic reasons.
14 tn Heb “the man,” but in a generic sense, referring to the whole human race (“mankind” or “humankind”).
15 tn The Hebrew term may refer to “food” in a more general sense (cf. CEV).
16 sn Jesus quoted this text to the devil in the midst of his forty-day fast to make the point that spiritual nourishment is incomparably more important than mere physical bread (Matt 4:4; cf. Luke 4:4).
17 tn Or “chest” (so NIV, CEV); NLT “sacred chest”; TEV “wooden box.” This chest was made of acacia wood; it is later known as the ark of the covenant.
18 tc The MT lacks (probably by haplography) the phrase וְשֹׁסַע שֶׁסַע פַּרְסָה (vÿshosa’ shesa’ parsah, “and is clovenfooted,” i.e., “has parted hooves”), a phrase found in the otherwise exact parallel in Lev 11:7. The LXX and Smr attest the longer reading here. The meaning is, however, clear without it.
19 tn Heb “the
20 tn Heb “fathers” (also later in this verse and in vv. 9, 20).
21 tn Heb “circumcise” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “will give you and your descendents obedient hearts.” See note on the word “cleanse” in Deut 10:16.
22 tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).
23 tn Heb “the
24 tn The phrase “this law” is not in the Hebrew text, but English style requires an object for the verb here. Other translations also supply the object which is otherwise implicit (cf. NIV “who do not know this law”; TEV “who have never heard the Law of the Lord your God”).
