Ulangan 7:16

Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism

7:16 You must destroy ¹  all the people whom the Lord your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship ²  their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Ulangan 8:19

8:19 Now if you forget the Lord your God at all ³  and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.

Ulangan 10:20

10:20 Revere the Lord your God, serve him, be loyal to him and take oaths only in his name.

Ulangan 11:13

11:13 Now, if you pay close attention ⁴  to my commandments that I am giving you today and love ⁵  the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being, ⁶ 

Ulangan 12:28

12:28 Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Ulangan 13:18

13:18 Thus you must obey the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving ⁷  you today and doing what is right ⁸  before him. ⁹ 

Ulangan 15:17

15:17 you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. ¹⁰  Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well).

Ulangan 17:2

17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ¹¹  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ¹²  and breaks his covenant

Ulangan 17:5

17:5 you must bring to your city gates ¹³  that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death. ¹⁴ 

Ulangan 17:10

17:10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

Ulangan 18:12

18:12 Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord and because of these detestable things ¹⁵  the Lord your God is about to drive them out ¹⁶  from before you.

Ulangan 18:14

18:14 Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.

Ulangan 24:18

24:18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this.

Ulangan 28:14

28:14 But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving ¹⁷  you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship ¹⁸  them.

Ulangan 28:47

The Curse of Military Siege

28:47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

Ulangan 29:1

Narrative Interlude

29:1 (28:69) ¹⁹  These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. ²⁰ 

[7:16]  ¹ tn Heb “devour” (so NRSV); KJV, NAB, NASB “consume.” The verbal form (a perfect with vav consecutive) is understood here as having an imperatival or obligatory nuance (cf. the instructions and commands that follow). Another option is to take the statement as a continuation of the preceding conditional promises and translate “and you will destroy.”

[7:16]  ² tn Or “serve” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).

[8:19]  ³ tn Heb “if forgetting, you forget.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis; the translation indicates this with the words “at all” (cf. KJV).

[11:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “if hearing, you will hear.” The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute to emphasize the verbal idea. The translation renders this emphasis with the word “close.”

[11:13]  ⁵ tn Again, the Hebrew term אָהַב (’ahav) draws attention to the reciprocation of divine love as a condition or sign of covenant loyalty (cf. Deut 6:5).

[11:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[13:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

[13:18]  ⁸ tc The LXX and Smr add “and good” to bring the phrase in line with a familiar cliché (cf. Deut 6:18; Josh 9:25; 2 Kgs 10:3; 2 Chr 14:1; etc.). This is an unnecessary and improper attempt to force a text into a preconceived mold.

[13:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord your God.” See note on the word “him” in v. 3.

[15:17]  ¹⁰ sn When the bondslave’s ear was drilled through to the door, the door in question was that of the master’s house. In effect, the bondslave is declaring his undying and lifelong loyalty to his creditor. The scar (or even hole) in the earlobe would testify to the community that the slave had surrendered independence and personal rights. This may be what Paul had in mind when he said “I bear on my body the marks of Jesus” (Gal 6:17).

[17:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:2]  ¹² tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

[17:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”

[18:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “these abhorrent things.” The repetition is emphatic. For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, the same term used earlier in the verse has been translated “detestable” here.

[18:12]  ¹⁶ tn The translation understands the Hebrew participial form as having an imminent future sense here.

[28:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “from all the words which I am commanding.”

[28:14]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “in order to serve.”

[29:1]  ¹⁹ sn Beginning with 29:1, the verse numbers through 29:29 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 29:1 ET = 28:69 HT, 29:2 ET = 29:1 HT, 29:3 ET = 29:2 HT, etc., through 29:29 ET = 29:28 HT. With 30:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[29:1]  ²⁰ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (which some English versions substitute here for clarity, cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).