Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 2:4 
Context2:4 Instruct 1 these people as follows: ‘You are about to cross the border of your relatives 2 the descendants of Esau, 3 who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid of you, so watch yourselves carefully.
Deuteronomy 2:21
Context2:21 They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites 4 in advance of the Ammonites, 5 so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.
Deuteronomy 2:25
Context2:25 This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth 6 with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.” 7
Deuteronomy 5:1
Context5:1 Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them: 8 “Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!
Deuteronomy 7:16
Context7:16 You must destroy 9 all the people whom the Lord your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship 10 their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
Deuteronomy 7:19
Context7:19 the great judgments 11 you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power 12 by which he 13 brought you out – thus the Lord your God will do to all the people you fear.
Deuteronomy 9:1
Context9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. 14
Deuteronomy 9:6
Context9:6 Understand, therefore, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is about to give you this good land as a possession, for you are a stubborn 15 people!
Deuteronomy 9:26
Context9:26 I prayed to him: 16 O, Lord God, 17 do not destroy your people, your valued property 18 that you have powerfully redeemed, 19 whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength. 20
Deuteronomy 13:13
Context13:13 some evil people 21 have departed from among you to entice the inhabitants of their cities, 22 saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods” (whom you have not known before). 23
Deuteronomy 15:11
Context15:11 There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open 24 your hand to your fellow Israelites 25 who are needy and poor in your land.
Deuteronomy 16:18
Context16:18 You must appoint judges and civil servants 26 for each tribe in all your villages 27 that the Lord your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly. 28
Deuteronomy 17:7
Context17:7 The witnesses 29 must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people 30 are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 17:16
Context17:16 Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, 31 for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.
Deuteronomy 18:3
Context18:3 This shall be the priests’ fair allotment 32 from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep – they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.
Deuteronomy 21:8
Context21:8 Do not blame 33 your people Israel whom you redeemed, O Lord, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.” 34 Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.
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 26:19
Context26:19 Then 35 he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. 36 You will 37 be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he has said.
Deuteronomy 27:15
Context27:15 ‘Cursed is the one 38 who makes a carved or metal image – something abhorrent 39 to the Lord, the work of the craftsman 40 – and sets it up in a secret place.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’ 41
Deuteronomy 28:33
Context28:33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.
Deuteronomy 28:36
Context28:36 The Lord will force you and your king 42 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 29:1
Context29:1 (28:69) 43 These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. 44
Deuteronomy 29:13
Context29:13 Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, 45 just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors 46 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 29:25
Context29:25 Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 31:12
Context31:12 Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 32:21
Context32:21 They have made me jealous 47 with false gods, 48
enraging me with their worthless gods; 49
so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, 50
with a nation slow to learn 51 I will enrage them.
Deuteronomy 32:25
Context32:25 The sword will make people childless outside,
and terror will do so inside;
they will destroy 52 both the young man and the virgin,
the infant and the gray-haired man.
Deuteronomy 32:36
Context32:36 The Lord will judge his people,
and will change his plans concerning 53 his servants;
when he sees that their power has disappeared,
and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.
Deuteronomy 33:7
Context33:7 And this is the blessing 54 to Judah. He said,
Listen, O Lord, to Judah’s voice,
and bring him to his people.
May his power be great,
and may you help him against his foes.
Deuteronomy 33:21
Context33:21 He has selected the best part for himself,
for the portion of the ruler 55 is set aside 56 there;
he came with the leaders 57 of the people,
he obeyed the righteous laws of the Lord
and his ordinances with Israel.
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.
1 tn Heb “command” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “charge the people as follows.”
2 tn Heb “brothers”; NAB “your kinsmen.”
3 sn The descendants of Esau (Heb “sons of Esau”; the phrase also occurs in 2:8, 12, 22, 29). These are the inhabitants of the land otherwise known as Edom, south and east of the Dead Sea. Jacob’s brother Esau had settled there after his bitter strife with Jacob (Gen 36:1-8). “Edom” means “reddish,” probably because of the red sandstone of the region, but also by popular etymology because Esau, at birth, was reddish (Gen 25:25).
4 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Rephaites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Ammonites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “under heaven” (so NIV, NRSV).
7 tn Heb “from before you.”
8 tn Heb “and Moses called to all Israel and he said to them”; NAB, NASB, NIV “Moses summoned (convened NRSV) all Israel.”
9 tn Heb “devour” (so NRSV); KJV, NAB, NASB “consume.” The verbal form (a perfect with vav consecutive) is understood here as having an imperatival or obligatory nuance (cf. the instructions and commands that follow). Another option is to take the statement as a continuation of the preceding conditional promises and translate “and you will destroy.”
10 tn Or “serve” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).
11 tn Heb “testings” (so NAB), a reference to the plagues. See note at 4:34.
12 tn Heb “the strong hand and outstretched arm.” See 4:34.
13 tn Heb “the
14 tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.
15 tn Heb “stiff-necked” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).
sn The Hebrew word translated stubborn means “stiff-necked.” The image is that of a draft animal that is unsubmissive to the rein or yoke and refuses to bend its neck to draw the load. This is an apt description of OT Israel (Exod 32:9; 33:3, 5; 34:9; Deut 9:13).
16 tn Heb “the
17 tn Heb “Lord
18 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.
19 tn Heb “you have redeemed in your greatness.”
20 tn Heb “by your strong hand.”
21 tn Heb “men, sons of Belial.” The Hebrew term בְּלִיַּעַל (bÿliyya’al) has the idea of worthlessness, without morals or scruples (HALOT 133-34 s.v.). Cf. NAB, NRSV “scoundrels”; TEV, CEV “worthless people”; NLT “worthless rabble.”
22 tc The LXX and Tg read “your” for the MT’s “their.”
23 tn The translation understands the relative clause as a statement by Moses, not as part of the quotation from the evildoers. See also v. 2.
24 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “make sure.”
25 tn Heb “your brother.”
26 tn The Hebrew term וְשֹׁטְרִים (vÿshoterim), usually translated “officers” (KJV, NCV) or “officials” (NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT), derives from the verb שֹׁטֵר (shoter, “to write”). The noun became generic for all types of public officials. Here, however, it may be appositionally epexegetical to “judges,” thus resulting in the phrase, “judges, that is, civil officers,” etc. Whoever the שֹׁטְרִים are, their task here consists of rendering judgments and administering justice.
27 tn Heb “gates.”
28 tn Heb “with judgment of righteousness”; ASV, NASB “with righteous judgment.”
29 tn Heb “the hand of the witnesses.” This means the two or three witnesses are to throw the first stones (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
30 tn Heb “the hand of all the people.”
31 tn Heb “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV).
32 tn Heb “judgment”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “the priest’s due.”
33 tn Heb “Atone for.”
34 tn Heb “and do not place innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel.”
35 tn Heb “so that.” Verses 18-19 are one sentence in the Hebrew text, but the translation divides it into three sentences for stylistic reasons. The first clause in verse 19 gives a result of the preceding clause. When Israel keeps God’s law, God will bless them with fame and honor (cf. NAB “he will then raise you high in praise and renown and glory”; NLT “And if you do, he will make you greater than any other nation”).
36 tn Heb “for praise and for a name and for glory.”
37 tn Heb “and to be.” A new sentence was started here for stylistic reasons.
38 tn Heb “man,” but in a generic sense here.
39 tn The Hebrew term translated here “abhorrent” (תּוֹעֵבָה, to’evah) speaks of attitudes and/or behaviors so vile as to be reprehensible to a holy God. See note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.
40 tn Heb “craftsman’s hands.”
41 tn Or “So be it!” The term is an affirmation expressing agreement with the words of the Levites.
42 tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”
43 sn Beginning with 29:1, the verse numbers through 29:29 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 29:1 ET = 28:69 HT, 29:2 ET = 29:1 HT, 29:3 ET = 29:2 HT, etc., through 29:29 ET = 29:28 HT. With 30:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
44 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (which some English versions substitute here for clarity, cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
45 tn Heb “in order to establish you today to him for a people and he will be to you for God.” Verses 10-13 are one long sentence in Hebrew. The translation divides this into two sentences for stylistic reasons.
46 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 25).
47 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.
48 tn Heb “what is not a god,” or a “nondeity.”
49 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!”).
50 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).
51 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.”
52 tn A verb is omitted here in the Hebrew text; for purposes of English style one suitable to the context is supplied.
53 tn The translation understands the verb in the sense of “be grieved, relent” (cf. HALOT 689 s.v. נחם hitp 2); cf. KJV, ASV “repent himself”; NLT “will change his mind.” Another option is to translate “will show compassion to” (see BDB 637 s.v. נחם); cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV.
54 tn The words “the blessing” are supplied in the translation for clarity and stylistic reasons.
55 tn The Hebrew term מְחֹקֵק (mÿkhoqeq; Poel participle of חָקַק, khaqaq, “to inscribe”) reflects the idea that the recorder of allotments (the “ruler”) is able to set aside for himself the largest and best. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 444-45.
56 tn Heb “covered in” (if from the root סָפַן, safan; cf. HALOT 764-65 s.v. ספן qal).
57 tn Heb “heads” (in the sense of chieftains).
