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 5:31
Context5:31 But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, 1 statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them.” 2
Deuteronomy 7:8
Context7:8 Rather it is because of his 3 love 4 for you and his faithfulness to the promise 5 he solemnly vowed 6 to your ancestors 7 that the Lord brought you out with great power, 8 redeeming 9 you from the place of slavery, from the power 10 of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 9:5
Context9:5 It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, 11 that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he 12 made on oath to your ancestors, 13 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 9:12
Context9:12 And he said to me, “Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.” 14
Deuteronomy 9:28
Context9:28 Otherwise the people of the land 15 from which you brought us will say, “The Lord was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the desert.” 16
Deuteronomy 13:5
Context13:5 As for that prophet or dreamer, 17 he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the Lord your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within. 18
Deuteronomy 15:9
Context15:9 Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude 19 be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite 20 and you do not lend 21 him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you and you will be regarded as having sinned. 22
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 22:17
Context22:17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out 23 before the city’s elders.
Deuteronomy 22:24
Context22:24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated 24 his neighbor’s fiancée; 25 in this way you will purge 26 evil from among you.
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 27 is giving you as an inheritance, 28 you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven 29 – do not forget! 30
Deuteronomy 31:7
Context31:7 Then Moses called out to Joshua 31 in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will accompany these people to the land that the Lord promised to give their ancestors, 32 and you will enable them to inherit it.
1 tn Heb “commandment.” The MT actually has the singular (הַמִּצְוָה, hammitsvah), suggesting perhaps that the following terms (חֻקִּים [khuqqim] and מִשְׁפָּטִים [mishpatim]) are in epexegetical apposition to “commandment.” That is, the phrase could be translated “the entire command, namely, the statutes and ordinances.” This would essentially make מִצְוָה (mitsvah) synonymous with תּוֹרָה (torah), the usual term for the whole collection of law.
2 tn Heb “to possess it” (so KJV, ASV); NLT “as their inheritance.”
3 tn Heb “the
4 tn For the verb אָהַב (’ahav, “to love”) as a term of choice or election, see note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37.
5 tn Heb “oath.” This is a reference to the promises of the so-called “Abrahamic Covenant” (cf. Gen 15:13-16).
6 tn Heb “swore on oath.”
7 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 12, 13).
8 tn Heb “by a strong hand” (NAB similar); NLT “with such amazing power.”
9 sn Redeeming you from the place of slavery. The Hebrew verb translated “redeeming” (from the root פָּדָה, padah) has the idea of redemption by the payment of a ransom. The initial symbol of this was the Passover lamb, offered by Israel to the
10 tn Heb “hand” (so KJV, NRSV), a metaphor for power or domination.
11 tn Heb “uprightness of your heart” (so NASB, NRSV). The Hebrew word צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah, “righteousness”), though essentially synonymous here with יֹשֶׁר (yosher, “uprightness”), carries the idea of conformity to an objective standard. The term יֹשֶׁר has more to do with an inner, moral quality (cf. NAB, NIV “integrity”). Neither, however, was grounds for the
12 tn Heb “the
13 tn Heb “fathers.”
14 tc Heb “a casting.” The MT reads מַסֵּכָה (massekhah, “a cast thing”) but some
15 tc The MT reads only “the land.” Smr supplies עַם (’am, “people”) and LXX and its dependents supply “the inhabitants of the land.” The truncated form found in the MT is adequate to communicate the intended meaning; the words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity.
16 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, NLT).
17 tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.
18 tn Heb “your midst” (so NAB, NRSV). The severity of the judgment here (i.e., capital punishment) is because of the severity of the sin, namely, high treason against the Great King. Idolatry is a violation of the first two commandments (Deut 5:6-10) as well as the spirit and intent of the Shema (Deut 6:4-5).
19 tn Heb “your eye.”
20 tn Heb “your needy brother.”
21 tn Heb “give” (likewise in v. 10).
22 tn Heb “it will be a sin to you.”
23 tn Heb “they will spread the garment.”
24 tn Heb “humbled.”
25 tn Heb “wife.”
26 tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.
27 tn Heb “ the
28 tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.”
29 tn Or “from beneath the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
30 sn This command is fulfilled in 1 Sam 15:1-33.
31 tn The Hebrew text includes “and said to him.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
