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 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 3 equipped for battle.
Deuteronomy 5:15
Context5:15 Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there by strength and power. 4 That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to observe 5 the Sabbath day.
Deuteronomy 5:33
Context5:33 Walk just as he 6 has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long 7 in the land you are going to possess.
Deuteronomy 6:24
Context6:24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him 8 so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.
Deuteronomy 7:6
Context7:6 For you are a people holy 9 to the Lord your God. He 10 has chosen you to be his people, prized 11 above all others on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 8:2
Context8:2 Remember the whole way by which he 12 has brought you these forty years through the desert 13 so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
Deuteronomy 9:3
Context9:3 Understand today that the Lord your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he 14 has told you.
Deuteronomy 12:1
Context12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 15 has given you to possess. 16
Deuteronomy 13:17
Context13:17 You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. 17 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 18 to the Lord your God. He 19 has chosen you to be his people, prized 20 above all others on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 14:8
Context14:8 Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, 21 it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.
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 16:10
Context16:10 Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks 22 before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering 23 that you will bring, in proportion to how he 24 has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 17:5
Context17:5 you must bring to your city gates 25 that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death. 26
Deuteronomy 17:16
Context17:16 Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, 27 for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.
Deuteronomy 18:22
Context18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my 28 name and the prediction 29 is not fulfilled, 30 then I have 31 not spoken it; 32 the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”
Deuteronomy 19:4
Context19:4 Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, 33 if he has accidentally killed another 34 without hating him at the time of the accident. 35
Deuteronomy 20:5
Context20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, 36 “Who among you 37 has built a new house and not dedicated 38 it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else 39 dedicate it.
Deuteronomy 20:14
Context20:14 However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city – all its plunder – you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 21:5
Context21:5 Then the Levitical priests 40 will approach (for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name, 41 and to decide 42 every judicial verdict 43 )
Deuteronomy 21:15
Context21:15 Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, 44 and they both 45 bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
Deuteronomy 22:26
Context22:26 You must not do anything to the young woman – she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person 46 and murders him,
Deuteronomy 24:1
Context24:1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive 47 in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.
Deuteronomy 24:5
Context24:5 When a man is newly married, he need not go into 48 the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to 49 the wife he has married.
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 50 you.
Deuteronomy 28:53
Context28:53 You will then eat your own offspring, 51 the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege 52 by which your enemies will constrict you.
Deuteronomy 28:57
Context28:57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth 53 and her newborn children 54 (since she has nothing else), 55 because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
Deuteronomy 29:22
Context29:22 The generation to come – your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places – will see 56 the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the Lord has brought on it.
Deuteronomy 30:1
Context30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses 57 I have set before you, you will reflect upon them 58 in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.
Deuteronomy 30:3
Context30:3 the Lord your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he 59 has scattered you.
Deuteronomy 31:2-3
Context31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, 60 and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’ 31:3 As for the Lord your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the Lord has said.
Deuteronomy 32:22
Context32:22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger,
and it burns to lowest Sheol; 61
it consumes the earth and its produce,
and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
Deuteronomy 32:36
Context32:36 The Lord will judge his people,
and will change his plans concerning 62 his servants;
when he sees that their power has disappeared,
and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.
Deuteronomy 33:21
Context33:21 He has selected the best part for himself,
for the portion of the ruler 63 is set aside 64 there;
he came with the leaders 65 of the people,
he obeyed the righteous laws of the Lord
and his ordinances with Israel.
1 tn Heb “the
2 tn Or “has given you the land” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “your brothers, the sons of Israel.”
4 tn Heb “by a strong hand and an outstretched arm,” the hand and arm symbolizing divine activity and strength. Cf. NLT “with amazing power and mighty deeds.”
5 tn Or “keep” (so KJV, NRSV).
6 tn Heb “the
7 tn Heb “may prolong your days”; NAB “may have long life”; TEV “will continue to live.”
8 tn Heb “the
9 tn That is, “set apart.”
10 tn Heb “the
11 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.
12 tn Heb “the
13 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.
14 tn Heb “the
15 tn Heb “fathers.”
16 tn Heb “you must be careful to obey in the land the
17 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.
18 tn Or “set apart.”
19 tn Heb “The
20 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
21 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.
22 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”).
23 tn Heb “the sufficiency of the offering of your hand.”
24 tn Heb “the
25 tn Heb “gates.”
26 tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”
27 tn Heb “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV).
28 tn Heb “the
29 tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”
30 tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”
31 tn Heb “the
32 tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”
33 tn Heb “and this is the word pertaining to the one who kills who flees there and lives.”
34 tn Heb “who strikes his neighbor without knowledge.”
35 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.”
36 tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).
37 tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).
38 tn The Hebrew term חָנַךְ (khanakh) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form (חָנֻכָּה, khanukah) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar (2 Chr 7:9) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).
39 tn Heb “another man.”
40 tn Heb “the priests, the sons of Levi.”
41 tn Heb “in the name of the
42 tn Heb “by their mouth.”
43 tn Heb “every controversy and every blow.”
44 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.
45 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.
46 tn Heb “his neighbor.”
47 tn Heb “nakedness of a thing.” The Hebrew phrase עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers here to some gross sexual impropriety (see note on “indecent” in Deut 23:14). Though the term usually has to do only with indecent exposure of the genitals, it can also include such behavior as adultery (cf. Lev 18:6-18; 20:11, 17, 20-21; Ezek 22:10; 23:29; Hos 2:10).
48 tn Heb “go out with.”
49 tc For the MT’s reading Piel שִׂמַּח (simmakh, “bring joy to”), the Syriac and others read שָׂמַח (samakh, “enjoy”).
50 tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”
51 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”
52 tn Heb “siege and stress.”
53 tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”
54 tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”
55 tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”
56 tn Heb “will say and see.” One expects a quotation to appear, but it seems to be omitted. To avoid confusion in the translation, the verb “will say” is omitted.
57 tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”
58 tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”
59 tn Heb “the
60 tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”
61 tn Or “to the lowest depths of the earth”; cf. NAB “to the depths of the nether world”; NIV “to the realm of death below”; NLT “to the depths of the grave.”
sn Sheol refers here not to hell and hell-fire – a much later concept – but to the innermost parts of the earth, as low down as one could get. The parallel with “the foundations of the mountains” makes this clear (cf. Pss 9:17; 16:10; 139:8; Isa 14:9, 15; Amos 9:2).
62 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.
63 tn The Hebrew term מְחֹקֵק (mÿkhoqeq; Poel participle of חָקַק, khaqaq, “to inscribe”) reflects the idea that the recorder of allotments (the “ruler”) is able to set aside for himself the largest and best. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 444-45.
64 tn Heb “covered in” (if from the root סָפַן, safan; cf. HALOT 764-65 s.v. ספן qal).
65 tn Heb “heads” (in the sense of chieftains).
