Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 3:2 
Context3:2 The Lord, however, said to me, “Don’t be afraid of him because I have already given him, his whole army, 1 and his land to you. You will do to him exactly what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon.”
Deuteronomy 7:8
Context7:8 Rather it is because of his 2 love 3 for you and his faithfulness to the promise 4 he solemnly vowed 5 to your ancestors 6 that the Lord brought you out with great power, 7 redeeming 8 you from the place of slavery, from the power 9 of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 25:7
Context25:7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she 10 must go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”
Deuteronomy 33:17
Context33:17 May the firstborn of his bull bring him honor,
and may his horns be those of a wild ox;
with them may he gore all peoples,
all the far reaches of the earth.
They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, 11
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
1 tn Heb “people.”
2 tn Heb “the
3 tn For the verb אָהַב (’ahav, “to love”) as a term of choice or election, see note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37.
4 tn Heb “oath.” This is a reference to the promises of the so-called “Abrahamic Covenant” (cf. Gen 15:13-16).
5 tn Heb “swore on oath.”
6 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 12, 13).
7 tn Heb “by a strong hand” (NAB similar); NLT “with such amazing power.”
8 sn Redeeming you from the place of slavery. The Hebrew verb translated “redeeming” (from the root פָּדָה, padah) has the idea of redemption by the payment of a ransom. The initial symbol of this was the Passover lamb, offered by Israel to the
9 tn Heb “hand” (so KJV, NRSV), a metaphor for power or domination.
10 tn Heb “want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister in law.” In the second instance the pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation to avoid redundancy.
11 sn Ephraim and Manasseh were the sons of Joseph who became founders of the two tribes into which Joseph’s descendants were split (Gen 48:19-20). Jacob’s blessing granted favored status to Ephraim; this is probably why Ephraim is viewed here as more numerous than Manasseh.
