Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 5:22 
Context5:22 The Lord said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. 1 Then he inscribed the words 2 on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
Deuteronomy 9:28
Context9:28 Otherwise the people of the land 3 from which you brought us will say, “The Lord was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the desert.” 4
Deuteronomy 12:21
Context12:21 If the place he 5 chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he 6 has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages 7 just as you wish.
Deuteronomy 15:2
Context15:2 This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; 8 he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, 9 for it is to be recognized as “the Lord’s cancellation of debts.”
Deuteronomy 21:17
Context21:17 Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved 10 wife as firstborn and give him the double portion 11 of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power 12 – to him should go the right of the firstborn.
Deuteronomy 22:19
Context22:19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation 13 ruined the reputation 14 of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
Deuteronomy 24:13
Context24:13 You must by all means 15 return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just 16 deed by the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 26:5
Context26:5 Then you must affirm before the Lord your God, “A wandering 17 Aramean 18 was my ancestor, 19 and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, 20 but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.
1 tn Heb “and he added no more” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NLT “This was all he said at that time.”
2 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the words spoken by the
3 tc The MT reads only “the land.” Smr supplies עַם (’am, “people”) and LXX and its dependents supply “the inhabitants of the land.” The truncated form found in the MT is adequate to communicate the intended meaning; the words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, NLT).
5 tn Heb “the
6 tn Heb “the
7 tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in your own community.”
8 tn Heb “his neighbor,” used idiomatically to refer to another person.
9 tn Heb “his neighbor and his brother.” The words “his brother” may be a scribal gloss identifying “his neighbor” (on this idiom, see the preceding note) as a fellow Israelite (cf. v. 3). In this case the conjunction before “his brother” does not introduce a second category, but rather has the force of “that is.”
10 tn See note on the word “other” in v. 15.
11 tn Heb “measure of two.” The Hebrew expression פִּי שְׁנַיִם (piy shÿnayim) suggests a two-thirds split; that is, the elder gets two parts and the younger one part. Cf. 2 Kgs 2:9; Zech 13:8. The practice is implicit in Isaac’s blessing of Jacob (Gen 25:31-34) and Jacob’s blessing of Ephraim (Gen 48:8-22).
12 tn Heb “his generative power” (אוֹן, ’on; cf. HALOT 22 s.v.). Cf. NAB “the first fruits of his manhood”; NRSV “the first issue of his virility.”
13 tn Heb “for he”; the referent (the man who made the accusation) has been specified in the translation to avoid confusion with the young woman’s father, the last-mentioned male.
14 tn Heb “brought forth a bad name.”
15 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “by all means.”
16 tn Or “righteous” (so NIV, NLT).
17 tn Though the Hebrew term אָבַד (’avad) generally means “to perish” or the like (HALOT 2-3 s.v.; BDB 1-2 s.v.; cf. KJV “a Syrian ready to perish”), a meaning “to go astray” or “to be lost” is also attested. The ambivalence in the Hebrew text is reflected in the versions where LXX Vaticanus reads ἀπέβαλεν (apebalen, “lose”) for a possibly metathesized reading found in Alexandrinus, Ambrosianus, ἀπέλαβεν (apelaben, “receive”); others attest κατέλειπεν (kateleipen, “leave, abandon”). “Wandering” seems to suit best the contrast with the sedentary life Israel would enjoy in Canaan (v. 9) and is the meaning followed by many English versions.
18 sn A wandering Aramean. This is a reference to Jacob whose mother Rebekah was an Aramean (Gen 24:10; 25:20, 26) and who himself lived in Aram for at least twenty years (Gen 31:41-42).
19 tn Heb “father.”
20 tn Heb “sojourned there few in number.” The words “with a household” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarity.
