Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:31 
Context1:31 and in the desert, where you saw him 1 carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”
Deuteronomy 2:22
Context2:22 This is exactly what he did for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when he destroyed the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their area to this very day.
Deuteronomy 2:25
Context2:25 This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth 2 with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.” 3
Deuteronomy 2:30
Context2:30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our 4 God had made him obstinate 5 and stubborn 6 so that he might deliver him over to you 7 this very day.
Deuteronomy 3:14
Context3:14 Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites 8 and Maacathites 9 (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair, 10 which it retains to this very day.)
Deuteronomy 4:6
Context4:6 So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding 11 to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise 12 people.”
Deuteronomy 4:9
Context4:9 Again, however, pay very careful attention, 13 lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.
Deuteronomy 9:10
Context9:10 The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger 14 of God, and on them was everything 15 he 16 said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.
Deuteronomy 12:3
Context12:3 You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, 17 burn up their sacred Asherah poles, 18 and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.
Deuteronomy 14:28
Context14:28 At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.
Deuteronomy 17:5
Context17:5 you must bring to your city gates 19 that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death. 20
Deuteronomy 24:15
Context24:15 You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Deuteronomy 28:62
Context28:62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, 21 because you will have disobeyed 22 the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 31:19
Context31:19 Now write down for yourselves the following song and teach it to the Israelites. Put it into their very mouths so that this song may serve as my witness against the Israelites!
Deuteronomy 31:27
Context31:27 for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. 23 Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the Lord; you will be even more rebellious after my death! 24
1 tn Heb “the
2 tn Heb “under heaven” (so NIV, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “from before you.”
4 tc The translation follows the LXX in reading the first person pronoun. The MT, followed by many English versions, has a second person masculine singular pronoun, “your.”
5 tn Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”
6 tn Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”
7 tn Heb “into your hand.”
8 sn Geshurites. Geshur was a city and its surrounding area somewhere northeast of Bashan (cf. Josh 12:5 ; 13:11, 13). One of David’s wives was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur and mother of Absalom (cf. 2 Sam 13:37; 15:8; 1 Chr 3:2).
9 sn Maacathites. These were the people of a territory southwest of Mount Hermon on the Jordan River. The name probably has nothing to do with David’s wife from Geshur (see note on “Geshurites” earlier in this verse).
10 sn Havvoth-Jair. The Hebrew name means “villages of Jair,” the latter being named after a son (i.e., descendant) of Manasseh who took the area by conquest.
11 tn Heb “it is wisdom and understanding.”
12 tn Heb “wise and understanding.”
13 tn Heb “watch yourself and watch your soul carefully.”
14 sn The very finger of God. This is a double figure of speech (1) in which God is ascribed human features (anthropomorphism) and (2) in which a part stands for the whole (synecdoche). That is, God, as Spirit, has no literal finger nor, if he had, would he write with his finger. Rather, the sense is that God himself – not Moses in any way – was responsible for the composition of the Ten Commandments (cf. Exod 31:18; 32:16; 34:1).
15 tn Heb “according to all the words.”
16 tn Heb “the
17 sn Sacred pillars. These are the stelae (stone pillars; the Hebrew term is מַצֵּבֹת, matsevot) associated with Baal worship, perhaps to mark a spot hallowed by an alleged visitation of the gods. See also Deut 7:5.
18 sn Sacred Asherah poles. The Hebrew term (plural) is אֲשֵׁרִים (’asherim). See note on the word “(leafy) tree” in v. 2, and also Deut 7:5.
19 tn Heb “gates.”
20 tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”
21 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
22 tn Heb “have not listened to the voice of.”
23 tn Heb “stiffness of neck” (cf. KJV, NAB, NIV). See note on the word “stubborn” in Deut 9:6.
24 tn Heb “How much more after my death?” The Hebrew text has a sarcastic rhetorical question here; the translation seeks to bring out the force of the question.
