Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:41 
Context1:41 Then you responded to me and admitted, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will now go up and fight as the Lord our God has told us to do.” So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.
Deuteronomy 3:20
Context3:20 You must fight 1 until the Lord gives your countrymen victory 2 as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”
Deuteronomy 4:10
Context4:10 You 3 stood before the Lord your God at Horeb and he 4 said to me, “Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. 5 Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”
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 6 has told you.
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 12:11
Context12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing 9 everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, 10 and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. 11
Deuteronomy 14:21
Context14:21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages 12 and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. 13
Deuteronomy 16:16
Context16:16 Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him 14 empty-handed.
Deuteronomy 23:14
Context23:14 For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat 15 your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent 16 among you and turn away from you.
Deuteronomy 24:4
Context24:4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry 17 her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. 18 You must not bring guilt on the land 19 which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
1 tn The words “you must fight” are not present in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “gives your brothers rest.”
3 tn The text begins with “(the) day (in) which.” In the Hebrew text v. 10 is subordinate to v. 11, but for stylistic reasons the translation treats v. 10 as an independent clause, necessitating the omission of the subordinating temporal phrase at the beginning of the verse.
4 tn Heb “the
5 tn Heb “my words.” See v. 13; in Hebrew the “ten commandments” are the “ten words.”
6 tn Heb “the
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 “and it will be (to) the place where the Lord your God chooses to cause his name to dwell you will bring.”
10 tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”
11 tn Heb “the
12 tn Heb “gates” (also in vv. 27, 28, 29).
13 sn Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. This strange prohibition – one whose rationale is unclear but probably related to pagan ritual – may seem out of place here but actually is not for the following reasons: (1) the passage as a whole opens with a prohibition against heathen mourning rites (i.e., death, vv. 1-2) and closes with what appear to be birth and infancy rites. (2) In the other two places where the stipulation occurs (Exod 23:19 and Exod 34:26) it similarly concludes major sections. (3) Whatever the practice signified it clearly was abhorrent to the
14 tn Heb “the
15 tn Heb “give [over] your enemies.”
16 tn Heb “nakedness of a thing”; NLT “any shameful thing.” The expression עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers specifically to sexual organs and, by extension, to any function associated with them. There are some aspects of human life that are so personal and private that they ought not be publicly paraded. Cultically speaking, even God is offended by such impropriety (cf. Gen 9:22-23; Lev 18:6-12, 16-19; 20:11, 17-21). See B. Seevers, NIDOTTE 3:528-30.
17 tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”
18 sn The issue here is not divorce and its grounds per se but prohibition of remarriage to a mate whom one has previously divorced.
19 tn Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).
