Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:8 
Context1:8 Look! I have already given the land to you. 1 Go, occupy the territory that I, 2 the Lord, promised 3 to give to your ancestors 4 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.” 5
Deuteronomy 2:5
Context2:5 Do not be hostile toward them, because I am not giving you any of their land, not even a footprint, for I have given Mount Seir 6 as an inheritance for Esau.
Deuteronomy 2:24
Context2:24 Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, 7 and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!
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 3:21
Context3:21 I also commanded Joshua at the same time, “You have seen everything the Lord your God did to these two kings; he 8 will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going. 9
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 10 the land you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 4:9
Context4:9 Again, however, pay very careful attention, 11 lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.
Deuteronomy 5:26
Context5:26 Who is there from the entire human race 12 who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?
Deuteronomy 8:2
Context8:2 Remember the whole way by which he 13 has brought you these forty years through the desert 14 so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
Deuteronomy 9:23
Context9:23 And when he 15 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 16 and would neither believe nor obey him.
Deuteronomy 9:26
Context9:26 I prayed to him: 17 O, Lord God, 18 do not destroy your people, your valued property 19 that you have powerfully redeemed, 20 whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength. 21
Deuteronomy 11:2
Context11:2 Bear in mind today that I am not speaking 22 to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments 23 of the Lord your God, which revealed 24 his greatness, strength, and power. 25
Deuteronomy 11:28
Context11:28 and the curse if you pay no attention 26 to his 27 commandments and turn from the way I am setting before 28 you today to pursue 29 other gods you have not known.
Deuteronomy 12:6
Context12:6 And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, 30 your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
Deuteronomy 12:12
Context12:12 You shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages 31 (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you). 32
Deuteronomy 12:17
Context12:17 You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.
Deuteronomy 12:31
Context12:31 You must not worship the Lord your God the way they do! 33 For everything that is abhorrent 34 to him, 35 everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!
Deuteronomy 13:2
Context13:2 and the sign or wonder should come to pass concerning what he said to you, namely, “Let us follow other gods” – gods whom you have not previously known – “and let us serve them.”
Deuteronomy 13:6
Context13:6 Suppose your own full brother, 36 your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods 37 that neither you nor your ancestors 38 have previously known, 39
Deuteronomy 13:17
Context13:17 You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. 40 Then the Lord will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.
Deuteronomy 15:18
Context15:18 You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice 41 the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
Deuteronomy 18:1
Context18:1 The Levitical priests 42 – indeed, the entire tribe of Levi – will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the Lord and of his inheritance. 43
Deuteronomy 18:20
Context18:20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized 44 him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.
Deuteronomy 18:22
Context18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my 45 name and the prediction 46 is not fulfilled, 47 then I have 48 not spoken it; 49 the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”
Deuteronomy 19:14
Context19:14 You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, 50 which will have been defined 51 in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 52
Deuteronomy 21:13-14
Context21:13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, 53 and stay 54 in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations 55 with her and become her husband and she your wife. 21:14 If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go 56 where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell 57 her; 58 you must not take advantage of 59 her, since you have already humiliated 60 her.
Deuteronomy 22:7
Context22:7 You must be sure 61 to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.
Deuteronomy 23:13
Context23:13 You must have a spade among your other equipment and when you relieve yourself 62 outside you must dig a hole with the spade 63 and then turn and cover your excrement. 64
Deuteronomy 25:15
Context25:15 You must have an accurate and correct 65 stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.
Deuteronomy 26:3
Context26:3 You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “I declare today to the Lord your 66 God that I have come into the land that the Lord 67 promised 68 to our ancestors 69 to give us.”
Deuteronomy 26:15
Context26:15 Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors – a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Deuteronomy 28:20
Context28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you 70 in everything you undertake 71 until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. 72
Deuteronomy 28:36
Context28:36 The Lord will force you and your king 73 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 28:48
Context28:48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty 74 you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They 75 will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.
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, 76 because you will have disobeyed 77 the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 28:64-66
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. 28:65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 28:66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. 78
Deuteronomy 29:19
Context29:19 When such a person 79 hears the words of this oath he secretly 80 blesses himself 81 and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” 82 This will destroy 83 the watered ground with the parched. 84
Deuteronomy 30:3
Context30:3 the Lord your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he 85 has scattered you.
Deuteronomy 30:19
Context30:19 Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!
Deuteronomy 31:13
Context31:13 Then their children, who have not known this law, 86 will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
Deuteronomy 31:23
Context31:23 and the Lord 87 commissioned Joshua son of Nun, “Be strong and courageous, for you will take the Israelites to the land I have promised them, and I will be with you.” 88
Deuteronomy 32:21
Context32:21 They have made me jealous 89 with false gods, 90
enraging me with their worthless gods; 91
so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, 92
with a nation slow to learn 93 I will enrage them.
Deuteronomy 33:9
Context33:9 He said to his father and mother, “I have not seen him,” 94
and he did not acknowledge his own brothers
or know his own children,
for they kept your word,
and guarded your covenant.
Deuteronomy 33:29
Context33:29 You have joy, Israel! Who is like you?
You are a people delivered by the Lord,
your protective shield
and your exalted sword.
May your enemies cringe before you;
may you trample on their backs.
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.’ 95 I have let you see it, 96 but you will not cross over there.”
1 tn Heb “I have placed before you the land.”
2 tn Heb “the
3 tn Heb “swore” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). This refers to God’s promise, made by solemn oath, to give the patriarchs the land.
4 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 11, 21, 35).
5 tn Heb “their seed after them.”
6 sn Mount Seir is synonymous with Edom.
7 sn Heshbon is the name of a prominent site (now Tell Hesba„n, about 7.5 mi [12 km] south southwest of Amman, Jordan). Sihon made it his capital after having driven Moab from the area and forced them south to the Arnon (Num 21:26-30). Heshbon is also mentioned in Deut 1:4.
8 tn Heb “the
9 tn Heb “which you are crossing over there.”
10 tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).
11 tn Heb “watch yourself and watch your soul carefully.”
12 tn Heb “who is there of all flesh.”
13 tn Heb “the
14 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.
15 tn Heb “the
16 tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.
17 tn Heb “the
18 tn Heb “Lord
19 tn Heb “your inheritance”; NLT “your special (very own NRSV) possession.” Israel is compared to landed property that one would inherit from his ancestors and pass on to his descendants.
20 tn Heb “you have redeemed in your greatness.”
21 tn Heb “by your strong hand.”
22 tn Heb “that not.” The words “I am speaking” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
23 tn Heb “who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the Lord.” The collocation of the verbs “know” and “see” indicates that personal experience (knowing by seeing) is in view. The term translated “discipline” (KJV, ASV “chastisement”) may also be rendered “instruction,” but vv. 2b-6 indicate that the referent of the term is the various acts of divine judgment the Israelites had witnessed.
24 tn The words “which revealed” have been supplied in the translation to show the logical relationship between the terms that follow and the divine judgments. In the Hebrew text the former are in apposition to the latter.
25 tn Heb “his strong hand and his stretched-out arm.”
26 tn Heb “do not listen to,” that is, do not obey.
27 tn Heb “the commandments of the
28 tn Heb “am commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).
29 tn Heb “walk after”; NIV “by following”; NLT “by worshiping.” This is a violation of the first commandment, the most serious of the covenant violations (Deut 5:6-7).
30 tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”
31 tn Heb “within your gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “who belongs to your community.”
32 sn They have no allotment or inheritance with you. See note on the word “inheritance” in Deut 10:9.
33 tn Heb “you must not do thus to/for the
34 tn See note on this term at Deut 7:25.
35 tn Heb “every abomination of the
36 tn Heb “your brother, the son of your mother.” In a polygamous society it was not rare to have half brothers and sisters by way of a common father and different mothers.
37 tn In the Hebrew text these words are in the form of a brief quotation: “entice you secretly saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods.’”
38 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 17).
39 tn Heb “which you have not known, you or your fathers.” (cf. KJV, ASV; on “fathers” cf. v. 18).
40 tn Or “anything that has been put under the divine curse”; Heb “anything of the ban” (cf. NASB). See note on the phrase “divine judgment” in Deut 2:34.
41 tn The Hebrew term מִשְׁנֶה (mishneh, “twice”) could mean “equivalent to” (cf. NRSV) or, more likely, “double” (cf. NAB, NIV, NLT). The idea is that a hired worker would put in only so many hours per day whereas a bondslave was available around the clock.
42 tn The MT places the terms “priests” and “Levites” in apposition, thus creating an epexegetical construction in which the second term qualifies the first, i.e., “Levitical priests.” This is a way of asserting their legitimacy as true priests. The Syriac renders “to the priest and to the Levite,” making a distinction between the two, but one that is out of place here.
43 sn Of his inheritance. This is a figurative way of speaking of the produce of the land the
44 tn Or “commanded” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).
45 tn Heb “the
46 tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”
47 tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”
48 tn Heb “the
49 tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”
50 tn Heb “border.” Cf. NRSV “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker.”
51 tn Heb “which they set off from the beginning.”
52 tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.” This phrase has been left untranslated to avoid redundancy.
53 tn Heb “she is to…remove the clothing of her captivity” (cf. NASB); NRSV “discard her captive’s garb.”
54 tn Heb “sit”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “remain.”
55 tn Heb “go unto,” a common Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations.
56 sn Heb “send her off.” The Hebrew term שִׁלַּחְתָּה (shillakhtah) is a somewhat euphemistic way of referring to divorce, the matter clearly in view here (cf. Deut 22:19, 29; 24:1, 3; Jer 3:1; Mal 2:16). This passage does not have the matter of divorce as its principal objective, so it should not be understood as endorsing divorce generally. It merely makes the point that if grounds for divorce exist (see Deut 24:1-4), and then divorce ensues, the husband could in no way gain profit from it.
57 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates by the words “in any case.”
58 tn The Hebrew text includes “for money.” This phrase has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
59 tn Or perhaps “must not enslave her” (cf. ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); Heb “[must not] be tyrannical over.”
60 sn You have humiliated her. Since divorce was considered rejection, the wife subjected to it would “lose face” in addition to the already humiliating event of having become a wife by force (21:11-13). Furthermore, the Hebrew verb translated “humiliated” here (עָנָה, ’anah), commonly used to speak of rape (cf. Gen 34:2; 2 Sam 13:12, 14, 22, 32; Judg 19:24), likely has sexual overtones as well. The woman may not be enslaved or abused after the divorce because it would be double humiliation (see also E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy [NAC], 291).
61 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “be sure.”
62 tn Heb “sit.” This expression is euphemistic.
63 tn Heb “with it”; the referent (the spade mentioned at the beginning of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
64 tn Heb “what comes from you,” a euphemism.
65 tn Or “just”; Heb “righteous.”
66 tc For the MT reading “your God,” certain LXX
67 tc The Syriac adds “your God” to complete the usual formula.
68 tn Heb “swore on oath.”
69 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 15).
70 tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”
71 tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”
72 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.”
73 tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”
74 tn Heb “lack of everything.”
75 tn Heb “he” (also later in this verse). The pronoun is a collective singular referring to the enemies (cf. CEV, NLT). Many translations understand the singular pronoun to refer to the
76 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
77 tn Heb “have not listened to the voice of.”
78 tn Heb “you will not be confident in your life.” The phrase “from one day to the next” is implied by the following verse.
79 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the subject of the warning in v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
80 tn Heb “in his heart.”
81 tn Or “invokes a blessing on himself.” A formalized word of blessing is in view, the content of which appears later in the verse.
82 tn Heb “heart.”
83 tn Heb “thus destroying.” For stylistic reasons the translation begins a new sentence here.
84 tn Heb “the watered with the parched.” The word “ground” is implied. The exact meaning of the phrase is uncertain although it appears to be figurative. This appears to be a proverbial observation employing a figure of speech (a merism) suggesting totality. That is, the Israelite who violates the letter and even spirit of the covenant will harm not only himself but everything he touches – “the watered and the parched.” Cf. CEV “you will cause the rest of Israel to be punished along with you.”
85 tn Heb “the
86 tn The phrase “this law” is not in the Hebrew text, but English style requires an object for the verb here. Other translations also supply the object which is otherwise implicit (cf. NIV “who do not know this law”; TEV “who have never heard the Law of the Lord your God”).
87 tn Heb “he.” Since the pronoun could be taken to refer to Moses, the referent has been specified as “the
88 tc The LXX reads, “as the
89 sn They have made me jealous. The “jealousy” of God is not a spirit of pettiness prompted by his insecurity, but righteous indignation caused by the disloyalty of his people to his covenant grace (see note on the word “God” in Deut 4:24). The jealousy of Israel, however (see next line), will be envy because of God’s lavish attention to another nation. This is an ironic wordplay. See H. Peels, NIDOTTE 3:938-39.
90 tn Heb “what is not a god,” or a “nondeity.”
91 tn Heb “their empty (things).” The Hebrew term used here to refer pejoratively to the false gods is הֶבֶל (hevel, “futile” or “futility”), used frequently in Ecclesiastes (e.g., Eccl 1:1, “Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher, “Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”).
92 tn Heb “what is not a people,” or a “nonpeople.” The “nonpeople” (לֹא־עָם, lo’-’am) referred to here are Gentiles who someday would become God’s people in the fullest sense (cf. Hos 1:9; 2:23).
93 tn Heb “a foolish nation” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV); NIV “a nation that has no understanding”; NLT “I will provoke their fury by blessing the foolish Gentiles.”
94 sn This statement no doubt alludes to the Levites’ destruction of their own fellow tribesmen following the golden calf incident (Exod 32:25-29).
95 tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).
96 tn The Hebrew text includes “with your eyes,” but this is redundant in English and is left untranslated.
