Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 12:8 
Context12:8 You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone 1 doing what seems best to him,
Deuteronomy 18:21
Context18:21 Now if you say to yourselves, 2 ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ 3 –
Deuteronomy 21:7
Context21:7 Then they must proclaim, “Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we 4 witnessed the crime. 5
Deuteronomy 29:8
Context29:8 Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
1 tn Heb “a man.”
2 tn Heb “in your heart.”
3 tn Heb “know the word which the Lord has not spoken.” The issue here is not understanding the meaning of the message, but distinguishing a genuine prophetic word from a false one.
4 tn Heb “our eyes.” This is a figure of speech known as synecdoche in which the part (the eyes) is put for the whole (the entire person).
5 tn Heb “seen”; the implied object (the crime committed) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
