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 1:27
Context1:27 You complained among yourselves privately 2 and said, “Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!
Deuteronomy 2:4
Context2:4 Instruct 3 these people as follows: ‘You are about to cross the border of your relatives 4 the descendants of Esau, 5 who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid of you, so watch yourselves carefully.
Deuteronomy 2:8
Context2:8 So we turned away from our relatives 6 the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the desert route, 7 from Elat 8 and Ezion Geber, 9 and traveling the way of the Moab wastelands.
Deuteronomy 2:21-22
Context2:21 They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites 10 in advance of the Ammonites, 11 so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place. 2:22 This is exactly what he did for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when he destroyed the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their area to this very day.
Deuteronomy 2:30
Context2:30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our 12 God had made him obstinate 13 and stubborn 14 so that he might deliver him over to you 15 this very day.
Deuteronomy 3:3
Context3:3 So the Lord our God did indeed give over to us King Og of Bashan and his whole army and we struck them down until not a single survivor was left. 16
Deuteronomy 4:2
Context4:2 Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I am delivering to 17 you.
Deuteronomy 4:5-6
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 18 the land you are about to enter and possess. 4:6 So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding 19 to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise 20 people.”
Deuteronomy 4:16
Context4:16 I say this 21 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 4:23
Context4:23 Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he 22 has forbidden 23 you.
Deuteronomy 5:27
Context5:27 You go near so that you can hear everything the Lord our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he 24 says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”
Deuteronomy 5:29
Context5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey 25 all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
Deuteronomy 5:33--6:2
Context5:33 Walk just as he 26 has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long 27 in the land you are going to possess.
6:1 Now these are the commandments, 28 statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed 29 6:2 and that you may so revere the Lord your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments 30 that I am giving 31 you – you, your children, and your grandchildren – all your lives, to prolong your days.
Deuteronomy 6:18
Context6:18 Do whatever is proper 32 and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he 33 promised your ancestors,
Deuteronomy 6:24
Context6:24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him 34 so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Context7:9 So realize that the Lord your God is the true God, 35 the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully 36 with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Deuteronomy 8:1-3
Context8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments 37 I am giving 38 you today so that you may live, increase in number, 39 and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. 40 8:2 Remember the whole way by which he 41 has brought you these forty years through the desert 42 so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not. 8:3 So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. 43 He did this to teach you 44 that humankind 45 cannot live by bread 46 alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord’s mouth. 47
Deuteronomy 8:16
Context8:16 fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you 48 and eventually bring good to you.
Deuteronomy 9:1
Context9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. 49
Deuteronomy 10:3
Context10:3 So I made an ark of acacia 50 wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
Deuteronomy 11:8
Context11:8 Now pay attention to all the commandments 51 I am giving 52 you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed, 53
Deuteronomy 11:14
Context11:14 then he promises, 54 “I will send rain for your land 55 in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, 56 so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.
Deuteronomy 11:21
Context11:21 so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself. 57
Deuteronomy 12:20
Context12:20 When the Lord your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say, “I want to eat meat just as I please,” 58 you may do so as you wish. 59
Deuteronomy 12:25
Context12:25 You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight. 60
Deuteronomy 16:15
Context16:15 You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the Lord your God in the place he 61 chooses, for he 62 will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do; 63 so you will indeed rejoice!
Deuteronomy 17:12
Context17:12 The person who pays no attention 64 to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 17:16
Context17:16 Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, 65 for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.
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 20:8
Context20:8 In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s 71 heart as fearful 72 as his own.”
Deuteronomy 22:7
Context22:7 You must be sure 73 to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.
Deuteronomy 25:15
Context25:15 You must have an accurate and correct 74 stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.
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. 75
Deuteronomy 29:29
Context29:29 Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants 76 forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 30:12-13
Context30:12 It is not in heaven, as though one must say, “Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 30:13 And it is not across the sea, as though one must say, “Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”
Deuteronomy 30:19
Context30:19 Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!
Deuteronomy 31:12
Context31:12 Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 31:19
Context31:19 Now write down for yourselves the following song and teach it to the Israelites. Put it into their very mouths so that this song may serve as my witness against the Israelites!
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 32:11
Context32:11 Like an eagle that stirs up 77 its nest,
that hovers over its young,
so the Lord 78 spread out his wings and took him, 79
he lifted him up on his pinions.
Deuteronomy 32:21
Context32:21 They have made me jealous 80 with false gods, 81
enraging me with their worthless gods; 82
so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, 83
with a nation slow to learn 84 I will enrage them.
Deuteronomy 32:25
Context32:25 The sword will make people childless outside,
and terror will do so inside;
they will destroy 85 both the young man and the virgin,
the infant and the gray-haired man.
Deuteronomy 33:11
Context33:11 Bless, O Lord, his goods,
and be pleased with his efforts;
undercut the legs 86 of any who attack him,
and of those who hate him, so that they cannot stand.
1 tn Or “selected”; Heb “took.”
2 tn Heb “in your tents,” that is, privately.
3 tn Heb “command” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “charge the people as follows.”
4 tn Heb “brothers”; NAB “your kinsmen.”
5 sn The descendants of Esau (Heb “sons of Esau”; the phrase also occurs in 2:8, 12, 22, 29). These are the inhabitants of the land otherwise known as Edom, south and east of the Dead Sea. Jacob’s brother Esau had settled there after his bitter strife with Jacob (Gen 36:1-8). “Edom” means “reddish,” probably because of the red sandstone of the region, but also by popular etymology because Esau, at birth, was reddish (Gen 25:25).
6 tn Or “brothers”; NRSV “our kin.”
7 tn Heb “the way of the Arabah” (so ASV); NASB, NIV “the Arabah road.”
8 sn Elat was a port city at the head of the eastern arm of the Red Sea, that is, the Gulf of Aqaba (or Gulf of Eilat). Solomon (1 Kgs 9:28), Uzziah (2 Kgs 14:22), and Ahaz (2 Kgs 16:5-6) used it as a port but eventually it became permanently part of Edom. It may be what is known today as Tell el-Kheleifeh. Modern Eilat is located further west along the northern coast. See G. Pratico, “Nelson Glueck’s 1938-1940 Excavations at Tell el-Kheleifeh: A Reappraisal,” BASOR 259 (1985): 1-32.
9 sn Ezion Geber. A place near the Gulf of Aqaba, Ezion-geber must be distinguished from Elat (cf. 1 Kgs 9:26-28; 2 Chr 8:17-18). It was, however, also a port city (1 Kgs 22:48-49). It may be the same as the modern site Gezirat al-Fauran, 15 mi (24 km) south-southwest from Tell el-Kheleifah.
10 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Rephaites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Ammonites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 tc The translation follows the LXX in reading the first person pronoun. The MT, followed by many English versions, has a second person masculine singular pronoun, “your.”
13 tn Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”
14 tn Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”
15 tn Heb “into your hand.”
16 tn Heb “was left to him.” The final phrase “to him” is redundant in English and has been left untranslated.
17 tn Heb “commanding.”
18 tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).
19 tn Heb “it is wisdom and understanding.”
20 tn Heb “wise and understanding.”
21 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.
22 tn Heb “the
23 tn Heb “commanded.”
24 tn Heb “the
25 tn Heb “keep” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).
26 tn Heb “the
27 tn Heb “may prolong your days”; NAB “may have long life”; TEV “will continue to live.”
28 tn Heb “commandment.” The word מִצְוָה (mitsvah) again is in the singular, serving as a comprehensive term for the whole stipulation section of the book. See note on the word “commandments” in 5:31.
29 tn Heb “where you are going over to possess it” (so NASB); NRSV “that you are about to cross into and occupy.”
30 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.
31 tn Heb “commanding.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation.
32 tn Heb “upright.”
33 tn Heb “the
34 tn Heb “the
35 tn Heb “the God.” The article here expresses uniqueness; cf. TEV “is the only God”; NLT “is indeed God.”
36 tn Heb “who keeps covenant and loyalty.” The syndetic construction of בְּרִית (bÿrit) and חֶסֶד (khesed) should be understood not as “covenant” plus “loyalty” but as an adverbial construction in which חֶסֶד (“loyalty”) modifies the verb שָׁמַר (shamar, “keeps”).
37 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).
38 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).
39 tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”
40 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).
41 tn Heb “the
42 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.
43 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).
44 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.
45 tn Heb “the man,” but in a generic sense, referring to the whole human race (“mankind” or “humankind”).
46 tn The Hebrew term may refer to “food” in a more general sense (cf. CEV).
47 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).
48 tn Heb “in order to humble you and in order to test you.” See 8:2.
49 tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.
50 sn Acacia wood (Heb “shittim wood”). This is wood from the acacia, the most common timber tree of the Sinai region. Most likely it is the species Acacia raddiana because this has the largest trunk. See F. N. Hepper, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Bible Plants, 63.
51 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).
52 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in vv. 13, 27).
53 tn Heb “which you are crossing over there to possess it.”
54 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.
55 tn Heb “the rain of your land.” In this case the genitive (modifying term) indicates the recipient of the rain.
56 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.
57 tn Heb “like the days of the heavens upon the earth,” that is, forever.
58 tn Heb “for my soul desires to eat meat.”
59 tn Heb “according to all the desire of your soul you may eat meat.”
60 tc Heb “in the eyes of the
61 tn Heb “the
62 tn Heb “the
63 tn Heb “in all the work of your hands” (so NASB, NIV); NAB, NRSV “in all your undertakings.”
64 tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).
65 tn Heb “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV).
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 “his brother’s.”
72 tn Heb “melted.”
73 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “be sure.”
74 tn Or “just”; Heb “righteous.”
75 tn Heb “the
76 tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NIV, NRSV “children.”
77 tn The prefixed verbal form is an imperfect, indicating habitual or typical behavior. The parallel verb (cf. “hovers” in the next line) is used in the same manner.
78 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
79 tn The form of the suffix on this and the following verb forms (cf. “lifted him up”) indicates that the verbs are preterites, not imperfects. As such they simply state the action factually. The use of the preterite here suggests that the preceding verb (cf. “spread out”) is preterite as well.
80 sn They have made me jealous. The “jealousy” of God is not a spirit of pettiness prompted by his insecurity, but righteous indignation caused by the disloyalty of his people to his covenant grace (see note on the word “God” in Deut 4:24). The jealousy of Israel, however (see next line), will be envy because of God’s lavish attention to another nation. This is an ironic wordplay. See H. Peels, NIDOTTE 3:938-39.
81 tn Heb “what is not a god,” or a “nondeity.”
82 tn Heb “their empty (things).” The Hebrew term used here to refer pejoratively to the false gods is הֶבֶל (hevel, “futile” or “futility”), used frequently in Ecclesiastes (e.g., Eccl 1:1, “Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher, “Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”).
83 tn Heb “what is not a people,” or a “nonpeople.” The “nonpeople” (לֹא־עָם, lo’-’am) referred to here are Gentiles who someday would become God’s people in the fullest sense (cf. Hos 1:9; 2:23).
84 tn Heb “a foolish nation” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV); NIV “a nation that has no understanding”; NLT “I will provoke their fury by blessing the foolish Gentiles.”
85 tn A verb is omitted here in the Hebrew text; for purposes of English style one suitable to the context is supplied.
86 tn Heb “smash the sinews [or “loins,” so many English versions].” This part of the body was considered to be center of one’s strength (cf. Job 40:16; Ps 69:24; Prov 31:17; Nah 2:2, 11). See J. H. Tigay, Deuteronomy (JPSTC), 325.
