Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 5:5 
Context5:5 (I was standing between the Lord and you at that time to reveal to you the message 1 of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:
Deuteronomy 5:11
Context5:11 You must not make use of the name of the Lord your God for worthless purposes, 2 for the Lord will not exonerate anyone who abuses his name that way. 3
Deuteronomy 5:15
Context5:15 Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there by strength and power. 4 That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to observe 5 the Sabbath day.
Deuteronomy 9:18
Context9:18 Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.
Deuteronomy 17:2
Context17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages 6 that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God 7 and breaks his covenant
Deuteronomy 26:3
Context26:3 You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “I declare today to the Lord your 8 God that I have come into the land that the Lord 9 promised 10 to our ancestors 11 to give us.”
Deuteronomy 26:10
Context26:10 So now, look! I have brought the first of the ground’s produce that you, Lord, have given me.” Then you must set it down before the Lord your God and worship before him. 12
Deuteronomy 28:1
Context28:1 “If you indeed 13 obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving 14 you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.
Deuteronomy 29:20
Context29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger 15 will rage 16 against that man; all the curses 17 written in this scroll will fall upon him 18 and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. 19
Deuteronomy 31:3
Context31:3 As for the Lord your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the Lord has said.
1 tn Or “word” (so KJV, NASB, NIV); NRSV “words.”
2 tn Heb “take up the name of the Lord your God to emptiness”; KJV “take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” The idea here is not cursing or profanity in the modern sense of these terms but rather the use of the divine Name for unholy, mundane purposes, that is, for meaningless (the Hebrew term is שָׁוְא) and empty ends. In ancient Israel this would include using the Lord’s name as a witness in vows one did not intend to keep.
3 tn Heb “who takes up his name to emptiness.”
4 tn Heb “by a strong hand and an outstretched arm,” the hand and arm symbolizing divine activity and strength. Cf. NLT “with amazing power and mighty deeds.”
5 tn Or “keep” (so KJV, NRSV).
6 tn Heb “gates.”
7 tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the
8 tc For the MT reading “your God,” certain LXX
9 tc The Syriac adds “your God” to complete the usual formula.
10 tn Heb “swore on oath.”
11 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 15).
12 tn Heb “the
13 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”
14 tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).
15 tn Heb “the wrath of the
16 tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”
17 tn Heb “the entire oath.”
18 tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”
19 tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”
