Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:36 
Context1:36 The exception is Caleb son of Jephunneh; 1 he will see it and I will give him and his descendants the territory on which he has walked, because he has wholeheartedly followed me.” 2
Deuteronomy 1:42
Context1:42 But the Lord told me: “Tell them this: ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.’”
Deuteronomy 2:1
Context2:1 Then we turned and set out toward the desert land on the way to the Red Sea 3 just as the Lord told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.
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 2:31
Context2:31 The Lord said to me, “Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession.”
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 4 the land you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 4:14
Context4:14 Moreover, at that same time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess. 5
Deuteronomy 5:9
Context5:9 You must not worship or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. I punish 6 the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject 7 me, 8
Deuteronomy 5:29
Context5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey 9 all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
Deuteronomy 6:1
Context6:1 Now these are the commandments, 10 statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed 11
Deuteronomy 7:4
Context7:4 for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you.
Deuteronomy 9:10
Context9:10 The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger 12 of God, and on them was everything 13 he 14 said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.
Deuteronomy 10:4
Context10:4 The Lord 15 then wrote on the tablets the same words, 16 the ten commandments, 17 which he 18 had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he 19 gave them to me.
Deuteronomy 17:14
Context17:14 When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, “I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”
Deuteronomy 26:10
Context26:10 So now, look! I have brought the first of the ground’s produce that you, Lord, have given me.” Then you must set it down before the Lord your God and worship before him. 20
Deuteronomy 26:14
Context26:14 I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; 21 I have obeyed you 22 and have done everything you have commanded me.
Deuteronomy 28:20
Context28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you 23 in everything you undertake 24 until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. 25
Deuteronomy 31:2
Context31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, 26 and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’
Deuteronomy 31:28
Context31:28 Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.
Deuteronomy 32:39
Context32:39 “See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, 27
“and there is no other god besides me.
I kill and give life,
I smash and I heal,
and none can resist 28 my power.
Deuteronomy 32:41
Context32:41 I will sharpen my lightning-like sword,
and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; 29
I will execute vengeance on my foes,
and repay those who hate me! 30
1 sn Caleb had, with Joshua, brought back to Israel a minority report from Canaan urging a conquest of the land, for he was confident of the
2 tn Heb “the
3 tn Heb “Reed Sea.” See note on the term “Red Sea” in Deut 1:40.
4 tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).
5 tn Heb “to which you are crossing over to possess it.”
6 tn In the Hebrew text the form is a participle, which is subordinated to what precedes. For the sake of English style, the translation divides this lengthy verse into two sentences.
7 tn Heb “who hate” (so NAB, NIV, NLT). Just as “to love” (אָהַב, ’ahav) means in a covenant context “to choose, obey,” so “to hate” (שָׂנֵא, sane’) means “to reject, disobey” (cf. the note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37; see also 5:10).
8 tn Heb “visiting the sin of fathers upon sons and upon a third (generation) and upon a fourth (generation) of those who hate me.” God sometimes punishes children for the sins of a father (cf. Num 16:27, 32; Josh 7:24-25; 2 Sam 21:1-9). On the principle of corporate solidarity and responsibility in OT thought see J. Kaminsky, Corporate Responsibility in the Hebrew Bible (JSOTSup). In the idiom of the text, the father is the first generation and the “sons” the second generation, making grandsons the third and great-grandsons the fourth. The reference to a third and fourth generation is a way of emphasizing that the sinner’s punishment would last throughout his lifetime. In this culture, where men married and fathered children at a relatively young age, it would not be unusual for one to see his great-grandsons. In an Aramaic tomb inscription from Nerab dating to the seventh century b.c., Agbar observes that he was surrounded by “children of the fourth generation” as he lay on his death bed (see ANET 661). The language of the text differs from Exod 34:7, the sons are the first generation, the grandsons (literally, “sons of the sons”) the second, great-grandsons the third, and great-great-grandsons the fourth. One could argue that formulation in Deut 5:9 (see also Exod 20:50) is elliptical/abbreviated or that it suffers from textual corruption (the repetition of the words “sons” would invite accidental omission).
9 tn Heb “keep” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).
10 tn Heb “commandment.” The word מִצְוָה (mitsvah) again is in the singular, serving as a comprehensive term for the whole stipulation section of the book. See note on the word “commandments” in 5:31.
11 tn Heb “where you are going over to possess it” (so NASB); NRSV “that you are about to cross into and occupy.”
12 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).
13 tn Heb “according to all the words.”
14 tn Heb “the
15 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
16 tn Heb “according to the former writing.” See note on the phrase “the same words” in v. 2.
17 tn Heb “ten words.” The “Ten Commandments” are known in Hebrew as the “Ten Words,” which in Greek became the “Decalogue.”
18 tn Heb “the
19 tn Heb “the
20 tn Heb “the
21 sn These practices suggest overtones of pagan ritual, all of which the confessor denies having undertaken. In Canaan they were connected with fertility practices associated with harvest time. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 335-36.
22 tn Heb “the
23 tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”
24 tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”
25 tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.
tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”
26 tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”
27 tn Verses 39-42 appear to be a quotation of the
28 tn Heb “deliver from” (so NRSV, NLT).
29 tn Heb “judgment.” This is a metonymy, a figure of speech in which the effect (judgment) is employed as an instrument (sword, spear, or the like), the means, by which it is brought about.
30 tn The Hebrew term שָׂנֵא (sane’, “hate”) in this covenant context speaks of those who reject Yahweh’s covenant overtures, that is, who disobey its stipulations (see note on the word “rejecting” in Deut 5:9; also see Deut 7:10; 2 Chr 19:2; Ps 81:15; 139:20-21).
