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 3:26
Context3:26 But the Lord was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he 3 said to me, “Enough of that! 4 Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.
Deuteronomy 5:5
Context5:5 (I was standing between the Lord and you at that time to reveal to you the message 5 of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:
Deuteronomy 5:29
Context5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey 6 all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
Deuteronomy 9:23
Context9:23 And when he 7 sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God 8 and would neither believe nor obey him.
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,” 9 you may do so as you wish. 10
Deuteronomy 28:11
Context28:11 The Lord will greatly multiply your children, 11 the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he 12 promised your ancestors 13 he would give you.
Deuteronomy 28:45
Context28:45 All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given 14 you.
Deuteronomy 28:56
Context28:56 Likewise, the most 15 tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, 16 will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,
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 tn Heb “the
4 tn Heb “much to you” (an idiom).
5 tn Or “word” (so KJV, NASB, NIV); NRSV “words.”
6 tn Heb “keep” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).
7 tn Heb “the
8 tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.
9 tn Heb “for my soul desires to eat meat.”
10 tn Heb “according to all the desire of your soul you may eat meat.”
11 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”
12 tn Heb “the
13 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).
14 tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”
15 tc The LXX adds σφόδρα (sfodra, “very”) to bring the description into line with v. 54.
16 tn Heb “delicateness and tenderness.”
