Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:29 
Context1:29 So I responded to you, “Do not be terrified 1 of them!
Deuteronomy 2:6
Context2:6 You may purchase 2 food to eat and water to drink from them.
Deuteronomy 2:11
Context2:11 These people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites; 3 the Moabites call them Emites.
Deuteronomy 3:22
Context3:22 Do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God will personally fight for you.”
Deuteronomy 7:17
Context7:17 If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”
Deuteronomy 11:20
Context11:20 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates
Deuteronomy 23:6
Context23:6 You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.
Deuteronomy 23:8
Context23:8 Children of the third generation born to them 4 may enter the assembly of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 27:7-8
Context27:7 Also you must offer fellowship offerings and eat them there, rejoicing before the Lord your God. 27:8 You must inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, making them clear.”
Deuteronomy 31:17
Context31:17 At that time 5 my anger will erupt against them 6 and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome 7 them 8 so that they 9 will say at that time, ‘Have not these disasters 10 overcome us 11 because our 12 God is not among us 13 ?’
Deuteronomy 32:19
Context32:19 But the Lord took note and despised them
because his sons and daughters enraged him.
Deuteronomy 32:23
Context32:23 I will increase their 14 disasters,
I will use up my arrows on them.
Deuteronomy 32:28
Context32:28 They are a nation devoid of wisdom,
and there is no understanding among them.
1 tn Heb “do not tremble and do not be afraid.” Two synonymous commands are combined for emphasis.
2 tn Heb includes “with silver.”
3 sn Rephaites. The earliest reference to this infamous giant race is, again, in the story of the invasion of the eastern kings (Gen 14:5). They lived around Ashteroth Karnaim, probably modern Tell Ashtarah (cf. Deut 1:4), in the Bashan plateau east of the Sea of Galilee. Og, king of Bashan, was a Rephaite (Deut 3:11; Josh 12:4; 13:12). Other texts speak of them or their kinfolk in both Transjordan (Deut 2:20; 3:13) and Canaan (Josh 11:21-22; 14:12, 15; 15:13-14; Judg 1:20; 1 Sam 17:4; 1 Chr 20:4-8). They also appear in extra-biblical literature, especially in connection with the city state of Ugarit. See C. L’Heureux, “Ugaritic and Biblical Rephaim,” HTR 67 (1974): 265-74.
4 sn Concessions were made to the Edomites and Egyptians (as compared to the others listed in vv. 1-6) because the Edomites (i.e., Esauites) were full “brothers” of Israel and the Egyptians had provided security and sustenance for Israel for more than four centuries.
5 tn Heb “on that day.” This same expression also appears later in the verse and in v. 18.
6 tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
7 tn Heb “find,” “encounter.”
8 tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
9 tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
10 tn Heb “evils.”
11 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.
12 tn Heb “my.”
13 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.
14 tn Heb “upon them.”
