Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:20 
Context1:20 Then I said to you, “You have come to the Amorite hill country which the Lord our God is about to give 1 us.
Deuteronomy 1:35
Context1:35 “Not a single person 2 of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!
Deuteronomy 1:43
Context1:43 I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord 3 and recklessly went up to the hill country.
Deuteronomy 2:28
Context2:28 Sell me food for cash 4 so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. 5 Just allow me to go through on foot,
Deuteronomy 4:8
Context4:8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just 6 as this whole law 7 that I am about to share with 8 you today?
Deuteronomy 5:28
Context5:28 When the Lord heard you speaking to me, he 9 said to me, “I have heard what these people have said to you – they have spoken well.
Deuteronomy 8:11
Context8:11 Be sure you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today.
Deuteronomy 9:15
Context9:15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it 10 was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.
Deuteronomy 9:19
Context9:19 For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger 11 that threatened to destroy you. But he 12 listened to me this time as well.
Deuteronomy 9:25
Context9:25 I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, 13 for he 14 had said he would destroy you.
Deuteronomy 10:2
Context10:2 I will write on the tablets the same words 15 that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”
Deuteronomy 12:14
Context12:14 for you may do so 16 only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas – there you may do everything I am commanding you. 17
Deuteronomy 13:18
Context13:18 Thus you must obey the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving 18 you today and doing what is right 19 before him. 20
Deuteronomy 15:15-16
Context15:15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today. 15:16 However, if the servant 21 says to you, “I do not want to leave 22 you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,
Deuteronomy 17:3
Context17:3 by serving other gods and worshiping them – the sun, 23 moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship. 24
Deuteronomy 22:16
Context22:16 The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected 25 her.
Deuteronomy 24:8
Context24:8 Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely 26 all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do.
Deuteronomy 24:18
Context24:18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this.
Deuteronomy 25:8
Context25:8 Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, “I don’t want to marry her,”
Deuteronomy 27:1
Context27:1 Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Pay attention to all the commandments 27 I am giving 28 you today.
Deuteronomy 27:4
Context27:4 So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal 29 these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.
Deuteronomy 28:14
Context28:14 But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving 30 you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship 31 them.
Deuteronomy 29:5-6
Context29:5 I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out 32 nor have your sandals 33 deteriorated. 29:6 You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer – all so that you might know that I 34 am the Lord your God!
Deuteronomy 30:2
Context30:2 Then if you and your descendants 35 turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being 36 just as 37 I am commanding you today,
Deuteronomy 30:15
Context30:15 “Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.
Deuteronomy 30:18
Context30:18 I declare to you this very day that you will certainly 38 perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. 39
Deuteronomy 31:5
Context31:5 The Lord will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.
Deuteronomy 31:18
Context31:18 But I will certainly 40 hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they 41 will have done by turning to other gods.
Deuteronomy 32:27
Context32:27 But I fear the reaction 42 of their enemies,
for 43 their adversaries would misunderstand
and say, “Our power is great, 44
and the Lord has not done all this!”’
Deuteronomy 32:52
Context32:52 You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”
1 tn The Hebrew participle has an imminent future sense here, although many English versions treat it as a present tense (“is giving us,” NAB, NIV, NRSV) or a predictive future (“will give us,” NCV).
2 tn Heb “Not a man among these men.”
3 tn Heb “the mouth of the
4 tn Heb “silver.”
5 tn Heb “and water for silver give to me so that I may drink.”
6 tn Or “pure”; or “fair”; Heb “righteous.”
7 tn The Hebrew phrase הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת (hattorah hazzo’t), in this context, refers specifically to the Book of Deuteronomy. That is, it is the collection of all the חֻקִּים (khuqqim, “statutes,” 4:1) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim, “ordinances,” 4:1) to be included in the covenant text. In a full canonical sense, of course, it pertains to the entire Pentateuch or Torah.
8 tn Heb “place before.”
9 tn Heb “the
10 tn Heb “the mountain.” The translation uses a pronoun for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
11 tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” Although many English versions translate as two terms, this construction is a hendiadys which serves to intensify the emotion (cf. NAB, TEV “fierce anger”).
12 tn Heb “the
13 tn The Hebrew text includes “when I prostrated myself.” Since this is redundant, it has been left untranslated.
14 tn Heb “the
15 sn The same words. The care with which the replacement copy must be made underscores the importance of verbal precision in relaying the
16 tn Heb “offer burnt offerings.” The expression “do so” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
17 sn This injunction to worship in a single and central sanctuary – one limited and appropriate to the thrice-annual festival celebrations (see Exod 23:14-17; 34:22-24; Lev 23:4-36; Deut 16:16-17) – marks a departure from previous times when worship was carried out at local shrines (cf. Gen 8:20; 12:7; 13:18; 22:9; 26:25; 35:1, 3, 7; Exod 17:15). Apart from the corporate worship of the whole theocratic community, however, worship at local altars would still be permitted as in the past (Deut 16:21; Judg 6:24-27; 13:19-20; 1 Sam 7:17; 10:5, 13; 2 Sam 24:18-25; 1 Kgs 18:30).
18 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).
19 tc The LXX and Smr add “and good” to bring the phrase in line with a familiar cliché (cf. Deut 6:18; Josh 9:25; 2 Kgs 10:3; 2 Chr 14:1; etc.). This is an unnecessary and improper attempt to force a text into a preconceived mold.
20 tn Heb “in the eyes of the
21 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the indentured servant introduced in v. 12) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 tn Heb “go out from.” The imperfect verbal form indicates the desire of the subject here.
23 tc The MT reads “and to the sun,” thus including the sun, the moon, and other heavenly spheres among the gods. However, Theodotion and Lucian read “or to the sun,” suggesting perhaps that the sun and the other heavenly bodies are not in the category of actual deities.
24 tn Heb “which I have not commanded you.” The words “to worship” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
25 tn Heb “hated.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15.
26 tn Heb “to watch carefully and to do.”
27 tn Heb “the whole commandment.” See note at 5:31.
28 tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 10).
29 tc Smr reads “Mount Gerizim” for the MT reading “Mount Ebal” to justify the location of the Samaritan temple there in the postexilic period. This reading is patently self-serving and does not reflect the original. In the NT when the Samaritan woman of Sychar referred to “this mountain” as the place of worship for her community she obviously had Gerizim in mind (cf. John 4:20).
30 tn Heb “from all the words which I am commanding.”
31 tn Heb “in order to serve.”
32 tn The Hebrew text includes “on you.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
33 tn The Hebrew text includes “from on your feet.”
34 tc The LXX reads “that he is the
35 tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “children.”
36 tn Or “heart and soul” (also in vv. 6, 10).
37 tn Heb “according to all.”
38 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “certainly.”
39 tn Heb “to go there to possess it.”
40 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “certainly.”
41 tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
42 tn Heb “anger.”
43 tn Heb “lest.”
44 tn Heb “Our hand is high.” Cf. NAB “Our own hand won the victory.”
