Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 2:7 
Context2:7 All along the way I, the Lord your God, 1 have blessed your every effort. 2 I have 3 been attentive to 4 your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have 5 been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”
Deuteronomy 3:18
Context3:18 At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites 6 equipped for battle.
Deuteronomy 9:26
Context9:26 I prayed to him: 7 O, Lord God, 8 do not destroy your people, your valued property 9 that you have powerfully redeemed, 10 whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength. 11
Deuteronomy 11:21
Context11:21 so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself. 12
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 13 (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you). 14
Deuteronomy 12:27
Context12:27 You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your other sacrifices 15 you must pour out on his 16 altar while you eat the meat.
Deuteronomy 15:7
Context15:7 If a fellow Israelite 17 from one of your villages 18 in the land that the Lord your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive 19 to his impoverished condition. 20
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 21 your hand to your fellow Israelites 22 who are needy and poor in your land.
Deuteronomy 17:2
Context17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages 23 that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God 24 and breaks his covenant
Deuteronomy 17:15
Context17:15 you must select without fail 25 a king whom the Lord your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens 26 you must appoint a king – you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites. 27
Deuteronomy 19:3
Context19:3 You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent 28 of your land that the Lord your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.
Deuteronomy 23:25
Context23:25 When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, 29 but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor’s ripe grain.
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 28:53
Context28:53 You will then eat your own offspring, 30 the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege 31 by which your enemies will constrict you.
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 The Hebrew text does not have the first person pronoun; it has been supplied for purposes of English style (the Lord is speaking here).
2 tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”
3 tn Heb “he has.” This has been converted to first person in the translation in keeping with English style.
4 tn Heb “known” (so ASV, NASB); NAB “been concerned about.”
5 tn Heb “the
6 tn Heb “your brothers, the sons of Israel.”
7 tn Heb “the
8 tn Heb “Lord
9 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.
10 tn Heb “you have redeemed in your greatness.”
11 tn Heb “by your strong hand.”
12 tn Heb “like the days of the heavens upon the earth,” that is, forever.
13 tn Heb “within your gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “who belongs to your community.”
14 sn They have no allotment or inheritance with you. See note on the word “inheritance” in Deut 10:9.
15 sn These other sacrifices would be so-called peace or fellowship offerings whose ritual required a different use of the blood from that of burnt (sin and trespass) offerings (cf. Lev 3; 7:11-14, 19-21).
16 tn Heb “on the altar of the
17 tn Heb “one of your brothers” (so NASB); NAB “one of your kinsmen”; NRSV “a member of your community.” See the note at v. 2.
18 tn Heb “gates.”
19 tn Heb “withdraw your hand.” Cf. NIV “hardhearted or tightfisted” (NRSV and NLT similar).
20 tn Heb “from your needy brother.”
21 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “make sure.”
22 tn Heb “your brother.”
23 tn Heb “gates.”
24 tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the
25 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, indicated in the translation by the words “without fail.”
26 tn Heb “your brothers,” but not referring to siblings (cf. NIV “your brother Israelites”; NLT “a fellow Israelite”). The same phrase also occurs in v. 20.
27 tn Heb “your brothers.” See the preceding note on “fellow citizens.”
28 tn Heb “border.”
29 sn For the continuation of these practices into NT times see Matt 12:1-8; Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5.
30 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”
31 tn Heb “siege and stress.”
