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 4:19
Context4:19 When you look up 1 to the sky 2 and see the sun, moon, and stars – the whole heavenly creation 3 – you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, 4 for the Lord your God has assigned 5 them to all the people 6 of the world. 7
Deuteronomy 4:32
Context4:32 Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind 8 on the earth, and ask 9 from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.
Deuteronomy 4:34
Context4:34 Or has God 10 ever before tried to deliver 11 a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, 12 signs, wonders, war, strength, power, 13 and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
Deuteronomy 5:16
Context5:16 Honor 14 your father and your mother just as the Lord your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he 15 is about to give you.
Deuteronomy 5:24
Context5:24 You said, “The Lord our God has shown us his great glory 16 and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us 17 that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.
Deuteronomy 8:18
Context8:18 You must remember the Lord your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, 18 even as he has to this day.
Deuteronomy 9:28
Context9:28 Otherwise the people of the land 19 from which you brought us will say, “The Lord was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the desert.” 20
Deuteronomy 12:21
Context12:21 If the place he 21 chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he 22 has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages 23 just as you wish.
Deuteronomy 15:2
Context15:2 This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; 24 he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, 25 for it is to be recognized as “the Lord’s cancellation of debts.”
Deuteronomy 15:9
Context15:9 Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude 26 be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite 27 and you do not lend 28 him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you and you will be regarded as having sinned. 29
Deuteronomy 21:17
Context21:17 Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved 30 wife as firstborn and give him the double portion 31 of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power 32 – to him should go the right of the firstborn.
Deuteronomy 22:17
Context22:17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out 33 before the city’s elders.
Deuteronomy 22:21
Context22:21 the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing 34 in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge 35 evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 24:4
Context24:4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry 36 her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. 37 You must not bring guilt on the land 38 which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 28:52
Context28:52 They will besiege all of your villages 39 until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
1 tn Heb “lest you lift up your eyes.” In the Hebrew text vv. 16-19 are subordinated to “Be careful” in v. 15, but this makes for an unduly long sentence in English.
2 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
3 tn Heb “all the host of heaven.”
4 tn In the Hebrew text the verbal sequence in v. 19 is “lest you look up…and see…and be seduced…and worship them…and serve them.” However, the first two actions are not prohibited in and of themselves. The prohibition pertains to the final three actions. The first two verbs describe actions that are logically subordinate to the following actions and can be treated as temporal or circumstantial: “lest, looking up…and seeing…, you are seduced.” See Joüon 2:635 §168.h.
5 tn Or “allotted.”
6 tn Or “nations.”
7 tn Heb “under all the heaven.”
sn The OT views the heavenly host as God’s council, which surrounds his royal throne ready to do his bidding (see 1 Kgs 22:19). God has given this group, sometimes called the “sons of God” (cf. Job 1:6; 38:7; Ps 89:6), jurisdiction over the nations. See Deut 32:8 (LXX). Some also see this assembly as the addressee in Ps 82. While God delegated his council to rule over the nations, he established a theocratic government over Israel and ruled directly over his chosen people via the Mosaic covenant. See v. 20, as well as Deut 32:9.
8 tn The Hebrew term אָדָם (’adam) may refer either to Adam or, more likely, to “man” in the sense of the human race (“mankind,” “humankind”). The idea here seems more universal in scope than reference to Adam alone would suggest.
9 tn The verb is not present in the Hebrew text but has been supplied in the translation for clarification. The challenge has both temporal and geographical dimensions. The people are challenged to (1) inquire about the entire scope of past history and (2) conduct their investigation on a worldwide scale.
10 tn The translation assumes the reference is to Israel’s God in which case the point is this: God’s intervention in Israel’s experience is unique in the sense that he has never intervened in such power for any other people on earth. The focus is on the uniqueness of Israel’s experience. Some understand the divine name here in a generic sense, “a god,” or “any god.” In this case God’s incomparability is the focus (cf. v. 35, where this theme is expressed).
11 tn Heb “tried to go to take for himself.”
12 tn Heb “by testings.” The reference here is the judgments upon Pharaoh in the form of plagues. See Deut 7:19 (cf. v. 18) and 29:3 (cf. v. 2).
13 tn Heb “by strong hand and by outstretched arm.”
14 tn The imperative here means, literally, “regard as heavy” (כַּבֵּד, kabbed). The meaning is that great importance must be ascribed to parents by their children.
15 tn Heb “the
16 tn Heb “his glory and his greatness.”
17 tn Heb “this day we have seen.”
18 tc Smr and Lucian add “Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” the standard way of rendering this almost stereotypical formula (cf. Deut 1:8; 6:10; 9:5, 27; 29:13; 30:20; 34:4). The MT’s harder reading presumptively argues for its originality, however.
19 tc The MT reads only “the land.” Smr supplies עַם (’am, “people”) and LXX and its dependents supply “the inhabitants of the land.” The truncated form found in the MT is adequate to communicate the intended meaning; the words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity.
20 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, NLT).
21 tn Heb “the
22 tn Heb “the
23 tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in your own community.”
24 tn Heb “his neighbor,” used idiomatically to refer to another person.
25 tn Heb “his neighbor and his brother.” The words “his brother” may be a scribal gloss identifying “his neighbor” (on this idiom, see the preceding note) as a fellow Israelite (cf. v. 3). In this case the conjunction before “his brother” does not introduce a second category, but rather has the force of “that is.”
26 tn Heb “your eye.”
27 tn Heb “your needy brother.”
28 tn Heb “give” (likewise in v. 10).
29 tn Heb “it will be a sin to you.”
30 tn See note on the word “other” in v. 15.
31 tn Heb “measure of two.” The Hebrew expression פִּי שְׁנַיִם (piy shÿnayim) suggests a two-thirds split; that is, the elder gets two parts and the younger one part. Cf. 2 Kgs 2:9; Zech 13:8. The practice is implicit in Isaac’s blessing of Jacob (Gen 25:31-34) and Jacob’s blessing of Ephraim (Gen 48:8-22).
32 tn Heb “his generative power” (אוֹן, ’on; cf. HALOT 22 s.v.). Cf. NAB “the first fruits of his manhood”; NRSV “the first issue of his virility.”
33 tn Heb “they will spread the garment.”
34 tn The Hebrew term נְבָלָה (nÿvalah) means more than just something stupid. It refers to a moral lapse so serious as to jeopardize the whole covenant community (cf. Gen 34:7; Judg 19:23; 20:6, 10; Jer 29:23). See C. Pan, NIDOTTE 3:11-13. Cf. NAB “she committed a crime against Israel.”
35 tn Heb “burn.” See note on Deut 21:21.
36 tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”
37 sn The issue here is not divorce and its grounds per se but prohibition of remarriage to a mate whom one has previously divorced.
38 tn Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).
