Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:3 
Context1:3 However, it was not until 1 the first day of the eleventh month 2 of the fortieth year 3 that Moses addressed the Israelites just as 4 the Lord had instructed him to do.
Deuteronomy 1:21
Context1:21 Look, he 5 has placed the land in front of you! 6 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 2:1
Context2:1 Then we turned and set out toward the desert land on the way to the Red Sea 7 just as the Lord told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.
Deuteronomy 2:12
Context2:12 Previously the Horites 8 lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the Lord gave them.) 9
Deuteronomy 2:29
Context2:29 just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the Lord our God is giving us.”
Deuteronomy 4:5
Context4:5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in 10 the land you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 4:23
Context4:23 Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he 11 has forbidden 12 you.
Deuteronomy 5:33
Context5:33 Walk just as he 13 has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long 14 in the land you are going to possess.
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 15 has told you.
Deuteronomy 10:3
Context10:3 So I made an ark of acacia 16 wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
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 12:20
Context12:20 When the Lord your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say, “I want to eat meat just as I please,” 17 you may do so as you wish. 18
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 26:15
Context26:15 Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors – a land flowing with milk and honey.”
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 19 will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.
Deuteronomy 29:13
Context29:13 Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, 20 just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors 21 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 31:3
Context31:3 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 34:9
Context34:9 Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had placed his hands on him; 22 and the Israelites listened to him and did just what the Lord had commanded Moses.
1 tn Heb “in” or “on.” Here there is a contrast between the ordinary time of eleven days (v. 2) and the actual time of forty years, so “not until” brings out that vast disparity.
2 sn The eleventh month is Shebat in the Hebrew calendar, January/February in the modern (Gregorian) calendar.
3 sn The fortieth year would be 1406
4 tn Heb “according to all which.”
5 tn Heb “the
6 tn Or “has given you the land” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).
7 tn Heb “Reed Sea.” See note on the term “Red Sea” in Deut 1:40.
8 sn Horites. Most likely these are the same as the well-known people of ancient Near Eastern texts described as Hurrians. They were geographically widespread and probably non-Semitic. Genesis speaks of them as the indigenous peoples of Edom that Esau expelled (Gen 36:8-19, 31-43) and also as among those who confronted the kings of the east (Gen 14:6).
9 tn Most modern English versions, beginning with the ASV (1901), regard vv. 10-12 as parenthetical to the narrative.
10 tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).
11 tn Heb “the
12 tn Heb “commanded.”
13 tn Heb “the
14 tn Heb “may prolong your days”; NAB “may have long life”; TEV “will continue to live.”
15 tn Heb “the
16 sn Acacia wood (Heb “shittim wood”). This is wood from the acacia, the most common timber tree of the Sinai region. Most likely it is the species Acacia raddiana because this has the largest trunk. See F. N. Hepper, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Bible Plants, 63.
17 tn Heb “for my soul desires to eat meat.”
18 tn Heb “according to all the desire of your soul you may eat meat.”
19 tn Heb “the
20 tn Heb “in order to establish you today to him for a people and he will be to you for God.” Verses 10-13 are one long sentence in Hebrew. The translation divides this into two sentences for stylistic reasons.
