Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:39 
Context1:39 Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, 1 and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, 2 will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.
Deuteronomy 2:36
Context2:36 From Aroer, 3 which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi), 4 all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us – the Lord our God gave them all to us.
Deuteronomy 3:4
Context3:4 We captured all his cities at that time – there was not a town we did not take from them – sixty cities, all the region of Argob, 5 the dominion of Og in Bashan.
Deuteronomy 5:15
Context5:15 Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there by strength and power. 6 That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to observe 7 the Sabbath day.
Deuteronomy 5:26
Context5:26 Who is there from the entire human race 8 who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?
Deuteronomy 9:1
Context9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. 9
Deuteronomy 9:9
Context9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there 10 forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
Deuteronomy 12:6
Context12:6 And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, 11 your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
Deuteronomy 14:26
Context14:26 Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and enjoy it.
Deuteronomy 15:11
Context15:11 There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open 12 your hand to your fellow Israelites 13 who are needy and poor in your land.
Deuteronomy 16:4
Context16:4 There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land 14 for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning. 15
Deuteronomy 17:8
Context17:8 If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, 16 legal claim, 17 or assault 18 – matters of controversy in your villages 19 – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. 20
Deuteronomy 17:12
Context17:12 The person who pays no attention 21 to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 19:4
Context19:4 Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, 22 if he has accidentally killed another 23 without hating him at the time of the accident. 24
Deuteronomy 21:4
Context21:4 and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, 25 to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. 26 There at the wadi they are to break the heifer’s neck.
Deuteronomy 28:36
Context28:36 The Lord will force you and your king 27 whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.
Deuteronomy 28:55
Context28:55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict 28 you in your villages.
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, 29 because you will have disobeyed 30 the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 28:64
Context28:64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 31:26
Context31:26 “Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,
Deuteronomy 32:39
Context32:39 “See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, 31
“and there is no other god besides me.
I kill and give life,
I smash and I heal,
and none can resist 32 my power.
Deuteronomy 33:19
Context33:19 They will summon peoples to the mountain,
there they will sacrifice proper 33 sacrifices;
for they will enjoy 34 the abundance of the seas,
and the hidden treasures of the shores. 35
Deuteronomy 33:21
Context33:21 He has selected the best part for himself,
for the portion of the ruler 36 is set aside 37 there;
he came with the leaders 38 of the people,
he obeyed the righteous laws of the Lord
and his ordinances with Israel.
Deuteronomy 34:4
Context34:4 Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ 39 I have let you see it, 40 but you will not cross over there.”
1 tn Heb “would be a prey.”
2 sn Do not know good from bad. This is a figure of speech called a merism (suggesting a whole by referring to its extreme opposites). Other examples are the tree of “the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen 2:9), the boy who knows enough “to reject the wrong and choose the right” (Isa 7:16; 8:4), and those who “cannot tell their right hand from their left” (Jonah 4:11). A young child is characterized by lack of knowledge.
3 sn Aroer. Now known as àAraáir on the northern edge of the Arnon river, Aroer marked the southern limit of Moab and, later, of the allotment of the tribe of Reuben (Josh 13:9, 16).
4 tn Heb “the city in the wadi.” This enigmatic reference may refer to Ar or, more likely, to Aroer itself. Epexegetically the text might read, “From Aroer…, that is, the city in the wadi.” See D. L. Christensen, Deuteronomy 1–11 (WBC), 49.
5 sn Argob. This is a subdistrict of Bashan, perhaps north of the Yarmuk River. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 314.
6 tn Heb “by a strong hand and an outstretched arm,” the hand and arm symbolizing divine activity and strength. Cf. NLT “with amazing power and mighty deeds.”
7 tn Or “keep” (so KJV, NRSV).
8 tn Heb “who is there of all flesh.”
9 tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.
10 tn Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
11 tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”
12 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “make sure.”
13 tn Heb “your brother.”
14 tn Heb “leaven must not be seen among you in all your border.”
15 tn Heb “remain all night until the morning” (so KJV, ASV). This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.
16 tn Heb “between blood and blood.”
17 tn Heb “between claim and claim.”
18 tn Heb “between blow and blow.”
19 tn Heb “gates.”
20 tc Several Greek recensions add “to place his name there,” thus completing the usual formula to describe the central sanctuary (cf. Deut 12:5, 11, 14, 18; 16:6). However, the context suggests that the local Levitical towns, and not the central sanctuary, are in mind.
21 tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).
22 tn Heb “and this is the word pertaining to the one who kills who flees there and lives.”
23 tn Heb “who strikes his neighbor without knowledge.”
24 tn Heb “yesterday and a third (day)” (likewise in v. 6). The point is that there was no animosity between the two parties at the time of the accident and therefore no motive for the killing. Cf. NAB “had previously borne no malice”; NRSV “had not been at enmity before.”
25 tn The combination “a wadi with flowing water” is necessary because a wadi (נַחַל, nakhal) was ordinarily a dry stream or riverbed. For this ritual, however, a perennial stream must be chosen so that there would be fresh, rushing water.
26 sn The unworked heifer, fresh stream, and uncultivated valley speak of ritual purity – of freedom from human contamination.
27 tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”
28 tn Heb “besiege,” redundant with the noun “siege.”
29 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
30 tn Heb “have not listened to the voice of.”
31 tn Verses 39-42 appear to be a quotation of the
32 tn Heb “deliver from” (so NRSV, NLT).
33 tn Or “acceptable”; Heb “righteous” (so NASB).
34 tn Heb “suck.”
35 tn Heb “of the sand” (so NRSV, NLT); CEV “the sandy beach.”
36 tn The Hebrew term מְחֹקֵק (mÿkhoqeq; Poel participle of חָקַק, khaqaq, “to inscribe”) reflects the idea that the recorder of allotments (the “ruler”) is able to set aside for himself the largest and best. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 444-45.
37 tn Heb “covered in” (if from the root סָפַן, safan; cf. HALOT 764-65 s.v. ספן qal).
38 tn Heb “heads” (in the sense of chieftains).
39 tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).
40 tn The Hebrew text includes “with your eyes,” but this is redundant in English and is left untranslated.
