Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 3:20 
Context3:20 You must fight 1 until the Lord gives your countrymen victory 2 as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”
Deuteronomy 4:10
Context4:10 You 3 stood before the Lord your God at Horeb and he 4 said to me, “Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. 5 Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”
Deuteronomy 5:16
Context5:16 Honor 6 your father and your mother just as the Lord your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he 7 is about to give you.
Deuteronomy 7:8
Context7:8 Rather it is because of his 8 love 9 for you and his faithfulness to the promise 10 he solemnly vowed 11 to your ancestors 12 that the Lord brought you out with great power, 13 redeeming 14 you from the place of slavery, from the power 15 of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 9:5
Context9:5 It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, 16 that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he 17 made on oath to your ancestors, 18 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 9:12
Context9:12 And he said to me, “Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.” 19
Deuteronomy 11:6
Context11:6 or what he did to Dathan and Abiram, 20 sons of Eliab the Reubenite, 21 when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp 22 and swallowed them, their families, 23 their tents, and all the property they brought with them. 24
Deuteronomy 11:17
Context11:17 Then the anger of the Lord will erupt 25 against you and he will close up the sky 26 so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed 27 from the good land that the Lord 28 is about to give you.
Deuteronomy 12:18
Context12:18 Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he 29 chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites 30 in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor. 31
Deuteronomy 14:21
Context14:21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages 32 and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. 33
Deuteronomy 14:23
Context14:23 In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, 34 your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.
Deuteronomy 15:9
Context15:9 Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude 35 be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite 36 and you do not lend 37 him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you and you will be regarded as having sinned. 38
Deuteronomy 16:16
Context16:16 Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him 39 empty-handed.
Deuteronomy 22:17
Context22:17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out 40 before the city’s elders.
Deuteronomy 22:24
Context22:24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated 41 his neighbor’s fiancée; 42 in this way you will purge 43 evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 23:14
Context23:14 For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat 44 your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent 45 among you and turn away from you.
Deuteronomy 25:7
Context25:7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she 46 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 25:19
Context25:19 So when the Lord your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he 47 is giving you as an inheritance, 48 you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven 49 – do not forget! 50
Deuteronomy 26:2
Context26:2 you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he 51 chooses to locate his name. 52
Deuteronomy 30:9
Context30:9 The Lord your God will make the labor of your hands 53 abundantly successful and multiply your children, 54 the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the Lord your God will once more 55 rejoice over you to make you prosperous 56 just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,
Deuteronomy 30:20
Context30:20 I also call on you 57 to love the Lord your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually 58 in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
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, 59
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
1 tn The words “you must fight” are not present in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “gives your brothers rest.”
3 tn The text begins with “(the) day (in) which.” In the Hebrew text v. 10 is subordinate to v. 11, but for stylistic reasons the translation treats v. 10 as an independent clause, necessitating the omission of the subordinating temporal phrase at the beginning of the verse.
4 tn Heb “the
5 tn Heb “my words.” See v. 13; in Hebrew the “ten commandments” are the “ten words.”
6 tn The imperative here means, literally, “regard as heavy” (כַּבֵּד, kabbed). The meaning is that great importance must be ascribed to parents by their children.
7 tn Heb “the
8 tn Heb “the
9 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.
10 tn Heb “oath.” This is a reference to the promises of the so-called “Abrahamic Covenant” (cf. Gen 15:13-16).
11 tn Heb “swore on oath.”
12 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 12, 13).
13 tn Heb “by a strong hand” (NAB similar); NLT “with such amazing power.”
14 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
15 tn Heb “hand” (so KJV, NRSV), a metaphor for power or domination.
16 tn Heb “uprightness of your heart” (so NASB, NRSV). The Hebrew word צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah, “righteousness”), though essentially synonymous here with יֹשֶׁר (yosher, “uprightness”), carries the idea of conformity to an objective standard. The term יֹשֶׁר has more to do with an inner, moral quality (cf. NAB, NIV “integrity”). Neither, however, was grounds for the
17 tn Heb “the
18 tn Heb “fathers.”
19 tc Heb “a casting.” The MT reads מַסֵּכָה (massekhah, “a cast thing”) but some
20 sn Dathan and Abiram. These two (along with others) had challenged Moses’ leadership in the desert with the result that the earth beneath them opened up and they and their families disappeared (Num 16:1-3, 31-35).
21 tn Or “the descendant of Reuben”; Heb “son of Reuben.”
22 tn Heb “in the midst of all Israel” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV); NASB “among all Israel.” In the Hebrew text these words appear at the end of the verse, but they are logically connected with the verbs. To make this clear the translation places the phrase after the first verb.
23 tn Heb “their houses,” referring to all who lived in their household. Cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “households.”
24 tn Heb “and all the substance which was at their feet.”
25 tn Heb “will become hot”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “will be kindled”; NAB “will flare up”; NIV, NLT “will burn.”
26 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
27 tn Or “be destroyed”; NAB, NIV “will soon perish.”
28 tn Heb “the
29 tn Heb “the
30 tn See note at Deut 12:12.
31 tn Heb “in all the sending forth of your hands.”
32 tn Heb “gates” (also in vv. 27, 28, 29).
33 sn Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. This strange prohibition – one whose rationale is unclear but probably related to pagan ritual – may seem out of place here but actually is not for the following reasons: (1) the passage as a whole opens with a prohibition against heathen mourning rites (i.e., death, vv. 1-2) and closes with what appear to be birth and infancy rites. (2) In the other two places where the stipulation occurs (Exod 23:19 and Exod 34:26) it similarly concludes major sections. (3) Whatever the practice signified it clearly was abhorrent to the
34 tn This refers to wine in the early stages of fermentation. In its later stages it becomes wine (יַיִן, yayin) in its mature sense.
35 tn Heb “your eye.”
36 tn Heb “your needy brother.”
37 tn Heb “give” (likewise in v. 10).
38 tn Heb “it will be a sin to you.”
39 tn Heb “the
40 tn Heb “they will spread the garment.”
41 tn Heb “humbled.”
42 tn Heb “wife.”
43 tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.
44 tn Heb “give [over] your enemies.”
45 tn Heb “nakedness of a thing”; NLT “any shameful thing.” The expression עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers specifically to sexual organs and, by extension, to any function associated with them. There are some aspects of human life that are so personal and private that they ought not be publicly paraded. Cultically speaking, even God is offended by such impropriety (cf. Gen 9:22-23; Lev 18:6-12, 16-19; 20:11, 17-21). See B. Seevers, NIDOTTE 3:528-30.
46 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.
47 tn Heb “ the
48 tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.”
49 tn Or “from beneath the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
50 sn This command is fulfilled in 1 Sam 15:1-33.
51 tn Heb “the
52 sn The place where he chooses to locate his name. This is a circumlocution for the central sanctuary, first the tabernacle and later the Jerusalem temple. See Deut 12:1-14 and especially the note on the word “you” in v. 14.
53 tc The MT reads “hand” (singular). Most versions read the plural.
54 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV); NRSV “of your body.”
55 tn Heb “return and.” The Hebrew verb is used idiomatically here to indicate the repetition of the following action.
56 tn The Hebrew text includes “for good.”
57 tn The words “I also call on you” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text vv. 19-20 are one long sentence, which the translation divides into two.
58 tn Heb “he is your life and the length of your days to live.”
59 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.
