Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:22 
Context1:22 So all of you approached me and said, “Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”
Deuteronomy 1:41
Context1:41 Then you responded to me and admitted, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will now go up and fight as the Lord our God has told us to do.” So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.
Deuteronomy 4:1
Context4:1 Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances 1 I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 2 is giving you.
Deuteronomy 4:10
Context4:10 You 3 stood before the Lord your God at Horeb and he 4 said to me, “Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. 5 Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”
Deuteronomy 4:40
Context4:40 Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth 6 today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.
Deuteronomy 5:14
Context5:14 but the seventh day is the Sabbath 7 of the Lord your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, 8 so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.
Deuteronomy 5:16
Context5:16 Honor 9 your father and your mother just as the Lord your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he 10 is about to give you.
Deuteronomy 6:3
Context6:3 Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number 11 – as the Lord, God of your ancestors, 12 said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 7:25
Context7:25 You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent 13 to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 11:17
Context11:17 Then the anger of the Lord will erupt 14 against you and he will close up the sky 15 so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed 16 from the good land that the Lord 17 is about to give you.
Deuteronomy 12:28
Context12:28 Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 14:23
Context14:23 In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, 18 your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.
Deuteronomy 14:29
Context14:29 Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work you do.
Deuteronomy 16:3
Context16:3 You must not eat any yeast with it; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, symbolic of affliction, for you came out of Egypt hurriedly. You must do this so you will remember for the rest of your life the day you came out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 17:19
Context17:19 It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.
Deuteronomy 19:5
Context19:5 Suppose he goes with someone else 19 to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax 20 to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose 21 from the handle and strikes 22 his fellow worker 23 so hard that he dies. The person responsible 24 may then flee to one of these cities to save himself. 25
Deuteronomy 23:14
Context23:14 For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat 26 your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent 27 among you and turn away from you.
Deuteronomy 24:13
Context24:13 You must by all means 28 return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just 29 deed by the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 24:19
Context24:19 Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, 30 you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the Lord your God may bless all the work you do. 31
Deuteronomy 25:19
Context25:19 So when the Lord your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he 32 is giving you as an inheritance, 33 you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven 34 – do not forget! 35
Deuteronomy 26:12
Context26:12 When you finish tithing all 36 your income in the third year (the year of tithing), you must give it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows 37 so that they may eat to their satisfaction in your villages. 38
Deuteronomy 27:3
Context27:3 Then you must inscribe on them all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 39 said to you.
Deuteronomy 31:17
Context31:17 At that time 40 my anger will erupt against them 41 and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome 42 them 43 so that they 44 will say at that time, ‘Have not these disasters 45 overcome us 46 because our 47 God is not among us 48 ?’
1 tn These technical Hebrew terms (חֻקִּים [khuqqim] and מִשְׁפָּטִים [mishpatim]) occur repeatedly throughout the Book of Deuteronomy to describe the covenant stipulations to which Israel had been called to subscribe (see, in this chapter alone, vv. 1, 5, 6, 8). The word חֻקִּים derives from the verb חֹק (khoq, “to inscribe; to carve”) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim) from שָׁפַט (shafat, “to judge”). They are virtually synonymous and are used interchangeably in Deuteronomy.
2 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 31, 37).
3 tn The text begins with “(the) day (in) which.” In the Hebrew text v. 10 is subordinate to v. 11, but for stylistic reasons the translation treats v. 10 as an independent clause, necessitating the omission of the subordinating temporal phrase at the beginning of the verse.
4 tn Heb “the
5 tn Heb “my words.” See v. 13; in Hebrew the “ten commandments” are the “ten words.”
6 tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV).
7 tn There is some degree of paronomasia (wordplay) here: “the seventh (הַשְּׁבִיעִי, hashÿvi’i) day is the Sabbath (שַׁבָּת, shabbat).” Otherwise, the words have nothing in common, since “Sabbath” is derived from the verb שָׁבַת (shavat, “to cease”).
8 tn Heb “in your gates”; NRSV, CEV “in your towns”; TEV “in your country.”
9 tn The imperative here means, literally, “regard as heavy” (כַּבֵּד, kabbed). The meaning is that great importance must be ascribed to parents by their children.
10 tn Heb “the
11 tn Heb “may multiply greatly” (so NASB, NRSV); the words “in number” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.
12 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 10, 18, 23).
13 tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “abhorrent; detestable”) describes anything detestable to the
14 tn Heb “will become hot”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “will be kindled”; NAB “will flare up”; NIV, NLT “will burn.”
15 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
16 tn Or “be destroyed”; NAB, NIV “will soon perish.”
17 tn Heb “the
18 tn This refers to wine in the early stages of fermentation. In its later stages it becomes wine (יַיִן, yayin) in its mature sense.
19 tn Heb “his neighbor” (so NAB, NIV); NASB “his friend.”
20 tn Heb “and he raises his hand with the iron.”
21 tn Heb “the iron slips off.”
22 tn Heb “finds.”
23 tn Heb “his neighbor.”
24 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person responsible for his friend’s death) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
25 tn Heb “and live.”
26 tn Heb “give [over] your enemies.”
27 tn Heb “nakedness of a thing”; NLT “any shameful thing.” The expression עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers specifically to sexual organs and, by extension, to any function associated with them. There are some aspects of human life that are so personal and private that they ought not be publicly paraded. Cultically speaking, even God is offended by such impropriety (cf. Gen 9:22-23; Lev 18:6-12, 16-19; 20:11, 17-21). See B. Seevers, NIDOTTE 3:528-30.
28 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “by all means.”
29 tn Or “righteous” (so NIV, NLT).
30 tn Heb “in the field.”
31 tn Heb “of your hands.” This law was later applied in the story of Ruth who, as a poor widow, was allowed by generous Boaz to glean in his fields (Ruth 2:1-13).
32 tn Heb “ the
33 tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.”
34 tn Or “from beneath the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
35 sn This command is fulfilled in 1 Sam 15:1-33.
36 tn Heb includes “the tithes of.” This has not been included in the translation to avoid redundancy.
37 tn The terms “Levite, resident foreigner, orphan, and widow” are collective singulars in the Hebrew text (also in v. 13).
38 tn Heb “gates.”
39 tn Heb “fathers.”
40 tn Heb “on that day.” This same expression also appears later in the verse and in v. 18.
41 tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
42 tn Heb “find,” “encounter.”
43 tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
44 tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
45 tn Heb “evils.”
46 tn Heb “me.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “us,” which is necessary in any case in the translation because of contemporary English style.
47 tn Heb “my.”
48 tn Heb “me.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “us,” which is necessary in any case in the translation because of contemporary English style.
