Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:21 
Context1:21 Look, he 1 has placed the land in front of you! 2 Go up, take possession of it, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”
Deuteronomy 1:27
Context1:27 You complained among yourselves privately 3 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 1:31
Context1:31 and in the desert, where you saw him 4 carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”
Deuteronomy 1:33
Context1:33 the one who was constantly going before you to find places for you to set up camp. He appeared by fire at night and cloud by day, to show you the way you ought to go.
Deuteronomy 2:30
Context2:30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our 5 God had made him obstinate 6 and stubborn 7 so that he might deliver him over to you 8 this very day.
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 9 will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going. 10
Deuteronomy 3:26
Context3:26 But the Lord was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he 11 said to me, “Enough of that! 12 Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.
Deuteronomy 4:46
Context4:46 in the Transjordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. (It is he whom Moses and the Israelites attacked after they came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 5:5
Context5:5 (I was standing between the Lord and you at that time to reveal to you the message 13 of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:
Deuteronomy 5:21
Context5:21 You must not desire 14 another man’s 15 wife, nor should you crave his 16 house, his field, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, or anything else he owns.” 17
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 18 says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”
Deuteronomy 5:33
Context5:33 Walk just as he 19 has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long 20 in the land you are going to possess.
Deuteronomy 6:10
Context6:10 Then when the Lord your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you – a land with large, fine cities you did not build,
Deuteronomy 6:18
Context6:18 Do whatever is proper 21 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 22 promised your ancestors,
Deuteronomy 7:4
Context7:4 for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you.
Deuteronomy 7:6
Context7:6 For you are a people holy 23 to the Lord your God. He 24 has chosen you to be his people, prized 25 above all others on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 7:10
Context7:10 but who pays back those who hate 26 him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore 27 those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve!
Deuteronomy 7:15
Context7:15 The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.
Deuteronomy 7:19
Context7:19 the great judgments 28 you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power 29 by which he 30 brought you out – thus the Lord your God will do to all the people you fear.
Deuteronomy 7:22
Context7:22 He, 31 the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.
Deuteronomy 8:15-16
Context8:15 and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents 32 and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow 33 from a flint rock and 8:16 fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you 34 and eventually bring good to you.
Deuteronomy 9:10
Context9:10 The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger 35 of God, and on them was everything 36 he 37 said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.
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; 38 you had quickly turned aside from the way he 39 had commanded you!
Deuteronomy 9:23
Context9:23 And when he 40 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 41 and would neither believe nor obey him.
Deuteronomy 11:14
Context11:14 then he promises, 42 “I will send rain for your land 43 in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, 44 so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.
Deuteronomy 11:25
Context11:25 Nobody will be able to resist you; the Lord your God will spread the fear and terror of you over the whole land on which you walk, just as he promised you.
Deuteronomy 12:10
Context12:10 When you do go across the Jordan River 45 and settle in the land he 46 is granting you as an inheritance and you find relief from all the enemies who surround you, you will live in safety. 47
Deuteronomy 12:31
Context12:31 You must not worship the Lord your God the way they do! 48 For everything that is abhorrent 49 to him, 50 everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!
Deuteronomy 13:2
Context13:2 and the sign or wonder should come to pass concerning what he said to you, namely, “Let us follow other gods” – gods whom you have not previously known – “and let us serve them.”
Deuteronomy 13:10
Context13:10 You must stone him to death 51 because he tried to entice you away from the Lord your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.
Deuteronomy 13:17
Context13:17 You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. 52 Then the Lord will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.
Deuteronomy 14:2
Context14:2 For you are a people holy 53 to the Lord your God. He 54 has chosen you to be his people, prized 55 above all others on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 15:6
Context15:6 For the Lord your God will bless you just as he has promised; you will lend to many nations but will not borrow from any, and you will rule over many nations but they will not rule over you.
Deuteronomy 15:17-18
Context15:17 you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. 56 Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well). 15:18 You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice 57 the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
Deuteronomy 16:6
Context16:6 but you must sacrifice it 58 in the evening in 59 the place where he 60 chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:10
Context16:10 Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks 61 before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering 62 that you will bring, in proportion to how he 63 has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 17:16
Context17:16 Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, 64 for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.
Deuteronomy 18:6
Context18:6 Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will 65 from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, 66 to the place the Lord chooses
Deuteronomy 18:18
Context18:18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.
Deuteronomy 19:4
Context19:4 Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, 67 if he has accidentally killed another 68 without hating him at the time of the accident. 69
Deuteronomy 19:6
Context19:6 Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, 70 and kill him, 71 though this is not a capital case 72 since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.
Deuteronomy 19:15
Context19:15 A single witness may not testify 73 against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established 74 only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Deuteronomy 21:15
Context21:15 Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, 75 and they both 76 bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
Deuteronomy 21:20
Context21:20 They must declare to the elders 77 of his city, “Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say – he is a glutton and drunkard.”
Deuteronomy 28:45
Context28:45 All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given 78 you.
Deuteronomy 28:63
Context28:63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he 79 will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.
Deuteronomy 29:1
Context29:1 (28:69) 80 These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. 81
Deuteronomy 29:19
Context29:19 When such a person 82 hears the words of this oath he secretly 83 blesses himself 84 and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” 85 This will destroy 86 the watered ground with the parched. 87
Deuteronomy 31:2
Context31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, 88 and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’
Deuteronomy 31:6
Context31:6 Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or tremble before them, for the Lord your God is the one who is going with you. He will not fail you or abandon you!”
Deuteronomy 32:11
Context32:11 Like an eagle that stirs up 89 its nest,
that hovers over its young,
so the Lord 90 spread out his wings and took him, 91
he lifted him up on his pinions.
Deuteronomy 32:15
Context32:15 But Jeshurun 92 became fat and kicked,
you 93 got fat, thick, and stuffed!
Then he deserted the God who made him,
and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.
Deuteronomy 32:36
Context32:36 The Lord will judge his people,
and will change his plans concerning 94 his servants;
when he sees that their power has disappeared,
and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.
Deuteronomy 32:39
Context32:39 “See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, 95
“and there is no other god besides me.
I kill and give life,
I smash and I heal,
and none can resist 96 my power.
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 33:7-8
Context33:7 And this is the blessing 97 to Judah. He said,
Listen, O Lord, to Judah’s voice,
and bring him to his people.
May his power be great,
and may you help him against his foes.
33:8 Of Levi he said:
Your Thummim and Urim 98 belong to your godly one, 99
whose authority you challenged at Massah, 100
and with whom you argued at the waters of Meribah. 101
1 tn Heb “the
2 tn Or “has given you the land” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “in your tents,” that is, privately.
4 tn Heb “the
5 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.”
6 tn Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”
7 tn Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”
8 tn Heb “into your hand.”
9 tn Heb “the
10 tn Heb “which you are crossing over there.”
11 tn Heb “the
12 tn Heb “much to you” (an idiom).
13 tn Or “word” (so KJV, NASB, NIV); NRSV “words.”
14 tn The Hebrew verb used here (חָמַד, khamad) is different from the one translated “crave” (אָוַה, ’avah) in the next line. The former has sexual overtones (“lust” or the like; cf. Song of Sol 2:3) whereas the latter has more the idea of a desire or craving for material things.
15 tn Heb “your neighbor’s.” See note on the term “fellow man” in v. 19.
16 tn Heb “your neighbor’s.” The pronoun is used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
17 tn Heb “or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
18 tn Heb “the
19 tn Heb “the
20 tn Heb “may prolong your days”; NAB “may have long life”; TEV “will continue to live.”
21 tn Heb “upright.”
22 tn Heb “the
23 tn That is, “set apart.”
24 tn Heb “the
25 tn Or “treasured” (so NIV, NRSV); NLT “his own special treasure.” The Hebrew term סְגֻלָּה (sÿgullah) describes Israel as God’s choice people, those whom he elected and who are most precious to him (cf. Exod 19:4-6; Deut 14:2; 26:18; 1 Chr 29:3; Ps 135:4; Eccl 2:8 Mal 3:17). See E. Carpenter, NIDOTTE 3:224.
26 tn For the term “hate” as synonymous with rejection or disobedience see note on the word “reject” in Deut 5:9 (cf. NRSV “reject”).
27 tn Heb “he will not hesitate concerning.”
28 tn Heb “testings” (so NAB), a reference to the plagues. See note at 4:34.
29 tn Heb “the strong hand and outstretched arm.” See 4:34.
30 tn Heb “the
31 tn Heb “the
32 tn Heb “flaming serpents”; KJV, NASB “fiery serpents”; NAB “saraph serpents.” This figure of speech (metonymy) probably describes the venomous and painful results of snakebite. The feeling from such an experience would be like a burning fire (שָׂרָף, saraf).
33 tn Heb “the one who brought out for you water.” In the Hebrew text this continues the preceding sentence, but the translation begins a new sentence here for stylistic reasons.
34 tn Heb “in order to humble you and in order to test you.” See 8:2.
35 sn The very finger of God. This is a double figure of speech (1) in which God is ascribed human features (anthropomorphism) and (2) in which a part stands for the whole (synecdoche). That is, God, as Spirit, has no literal finger nor, if he had, would he write with his finger. Rather, the sense is that God himself – not Moses in any way – was responsible for the composition of the Ten Commandments (cf. Exod 31:18; 32:16; 34:1).
36 tn Heb “according to all the words.”
37 tn Heb “the
38 tn On the phrase “metal calf,” see note on the term “metal image” in v. 12.
39 tn Heb “the
40 tn Heb “the
41 tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.
42 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.
43 tn Heb “the rain of your land.” In this case the genitive (modifying term) indicates the recipient of the rain.
44 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.
45 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
46 tn Heb “the
47 tn In the Hebrew text vv. 10-11 are one long, complex sentence. For stylistic reasons the translation divides this into two sentences.
48 tn Heb “you must not do thus to/for the
49 tn See note on this term at Deut 7:25.
50 tn Heb “every abomination of the
51 sn Execution by means of pelting the offender with stones afforded a mechanism whereby the whole community could share in it. In a very real sense it could be done not only in the name of the community and on its behalf but by its members (cf. Lev 24:14; Num 15:35; Deut 21:21; Josh 7:25).
52 tn Or “anything that has been put under the divine curse”; Heb “anything of the ban” (cf. NASB). See note on the phrase “divine judgment” in Deut 2:34.
53 tn Or “set apart.”
54 tn Heb “The
55 tn Or “treasured.” The Hebrew term סְגֻלָּה (sÿgullah) describes Israel as God’s choice people, those whom he elected and who are most precious to him (cf. Exod 19:4-6; Deut 14:2; 26:18; 1 Chr 29:3; Ps 135:4; Eccl 2:8 Mal 3:17). See E. Carpenter, NIDOTTE 3:224.
sn The Hebrew term translated “select” (and the whole verse) is reminiscent of the classic covenant text (Exod 19:4-6) which describes Israel’s entry into covenant relationship with the
56 sn When the bondslave’s ear was drilled through to the door, the door in question was that of the master’s house. In effect, the bondslave is declaring his undying and lifelong loyalty to his creditor. The scar (or even hole) in the earlobe would testify to the community that the slave had surrendered independence and personal rights. This may be what Paul had in mind when he said “I bear on my body the marks of Jesus” (Gal 6:17).
57 tn The Hebrew term מִשְׁנֶה (mishneh, “twice”) could mean “equivalent to” (cf. NRSV) or, more likely, “double” (cf. NAB, NIV, NLT). The idea is that a hired worker would put in only so many hours per day whereas a bondslave was available around the clock.
58 tn Heb “the Passover.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.
59 tc The MT reading אֶל (’el, “unto”) before “the place” should, following Smr, Syriac, Targums, and Vulgate, be omitted in favor of ב (bet; בַּמָּקוֹם, bammaqom), “in the place.”
60 tn Heb “the
61 tn The Hebrew phrase חַג שָׁבֻעוֹת (khag shavu’ot) is otherwise known in the OT (Exod 23:16) as קָצִיר (qatsir, “harvest”) and in the NT as πεντηχοστή (penthcosth, “Pentecost”).
62 tn Heb “the sufficiency of the offering of your hand.”
63 tn Heb “the
64 tn Heb “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV).
65 tn Heb “according to all the desire of his soul.”
66 tn Or “sojourning.” The verb used here refers to living temporarily in a place, not settling down.
67 tn Heb “and this is the word pertaining to the one who kills who flees there and lives.”
68 tn Heb “who strikes his neighbor without knowledge.”
69 tn Heb “yesterday and a third (day)” (likewise in v. 6). The point is that there was no animosity between the two parties at the time of the accident and therefore no motive for the killing. Cf. NAB “had previously borne no malice”; NRSV “had not been at enmity before.”
70 tn Heb “and overtake him, for the road is long.”
71 tn Heb “smite with respect to life,” that is, fatally.
72 tn Heb “no judgment of death.”
73 tn Heb “rise up” (likewise in v. 16).
74 tn Heb “may stand.”
75 tn Heb “one whom he loves and one whom he hates.” For the idea of שָׂנֵא (sane’, “hate”) meaning to be rejected or loved less (cf. NRSV “disliked”), see Gen 29:31, 33; Mal 1:2-3. Cf. A. Konkel, NIDOTTE 3:1256-60.
76 tn Heb “both the one whom he loves and the one whom he hates.” On the meaning of the phrase “one whom he loves and one whom he hates” see the note on the word “other” earlier in this verse. The translation has been simplified for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
77 tc The LXX and Smr read “to the men,” probably to conform to this phrase in v. 21. However, since judicial cases were the responsibility of the elders in such instances (cf. Deut 19:12; 21:3, 6; 25:7-8) the reading of the MT is likely original and correct here.
78 tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”
79 tn Heb “the
80 sn Beginning with 29:1, the verse numbers through 29:29 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 29:1 ET = 28:69 HT, 29:2 ET = 29:1 HT, 29:3 ET = 29:2 HT, etc., through 29:29 ET = 29:28 HT. With 30:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
81 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (which some English versions substitute here for clarity, cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
82 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the subject of the warning in v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
83 tn Heb “in his heart.”
84 tn Or “invokes a blessing on himself.” A formalized word of blessing is in view, the content of which appears later in the verse.
85 tn Heb “heart.”
86 tn Heb “thus destroying.” For stylistic reasons the translation begins a new sentence here.
87 tn Heb “the watered with the parched.” The word “ground” is implied. The exact meaning of the phrase is uncertain although it appears to be figurative. This appears to be a proverbial observation employing a figure of speech (a merism) suggesting totality. That is, the Israelite who violates the letter and even spirit of the covenant will harm not only himself but everything he touches – “the watered and the parched.” Cf. CEV “you will cause the rest of Israel to be punished along with you.”
88 tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”
89 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.
90 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
91 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.
92 tn To make the continuity of the referent clear, some English versions substitute “Jacob” here (NAB, NRSV) while others replace “Jeshurun” with “Israel” (NCV, CEV, NLT) or “the Lord’s people” (TEV).
sn Jeshurun is a term of affection derived from the Hebrew verb יָשַׁר (yashar, “be upright”). Here it speaks of Israel “in an ideal situation, with its ‘uprightness’ due more to God’s help than his own efforts” (M. Mulder, TDOT 6:475).
93 tc The LXX reads the third person masculine singular (“he”) for the MT second person masculine singular (“you”), but such alterations are unnecessary in Hebrew poetic texts where subjects fluctuate frequently and without warning.
94 tn The translation understands the verb in the sense of “be grieved, relent” (cf. HALOT 689 s.v. נחם hitp 2); cf. KJV, ASV “repent himself”; NLT “will change his mind.” Another option is to translate “will show compassion to” (see BDB 637 s.v. נחם); cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV.
95 tn Verses 39-42 appear to be a quotation of the
96 tn Heb “deliver from” (so NRSV, NLT).
97 tn The words “the blessing” are supplied in the translation for clarity and stylistic reasons.
98 sn Thummim and Urim. These terms, whose meaning is uncertain, refer to sacred stones carried in a pouch on the breastplate of the high priest and examined on occasion as a means of ascertaining God’s will or direction. See Exod 28:30; Lev 8:8; Num 27:21; 1 Sam 28:6. See also C. Van Dam, NIDOTTE 1:329-31.
99 tn Heb “godly man.” The reference is probably to Moses as representative of the whole tribe of Levi.
100 sn Massah means “testing” in Hebrew; the name is a wordplay on what took place there. Cf. Exod 17:7; Deut 6:16; 9:22; Ps 95:8-9.
101 sn Meribah means “contention, argument” in Hebrew; this is another wordplay on the incident that took place there. Cf. Num 20:13, 24; Ps 106:32.
