Ulangan 1:27

1:27 You complained among yourselves privately ¹  and said, “Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

Ulangan 1:43

1:43 I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord ²  and recklessly went up to the hill country.

Ulangan 3:27

3:27 Go up to the top of Pisgah and take a good look to the west, north, south, and east, ³  for you will not be allowed to cross the Jordan.

Ulangan 4:12-13

4:12 Then the Lord spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything – only a voice was heard. ⁴  4:13 And he revealed to you the covenant ⁵  he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, ⁶  writing them on two stone tablets.

Ulangan 4:23

4:23 Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he ⁷  has forbidden ⁸  you.

Ulangan 6:15

6:15 for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land. ⁹ 

Ulangan 7:15

7:15 The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.

Ulangan 11:2

11:2 Bear in mind today that I am not speaking ¹⁰  to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments ¹¹  of the Lord your God, which revealed ¹²  his greatness, strength, and power. ¹³ 

Ulangan 12:3

12:3 You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, ¹⁴  burn up their sacred Asherah poles, ¹⁵  and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

Ulangan 15:10

15:10 You must by all means lend ¹⁶  to him and not be upset by doing it, ¹⁷  for because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.

Ulangan 15:14

15:14 You must supply them generously ¹⁸  from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress – as the Lord your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

Ulangan 17:10-11

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. 17:11 You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you.

Ulangan 18:1

Provision for Priests and Levites

18:1 The Levitical priests ¹⁹  – indeed, the entire tribe of Levi – will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the Lord and of his inheritance. ²⁰ 

Ulangan 20:14

20:14 However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city – all its plunder – you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.

Ulangan 23:17

Purity in Cultic Personnel

23:17 There must never be a sacred prostitute ²¹  among the young women ²²  of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute ²³  among the young men ²⁴  of Israel.

Ulangan 28:8

28:8 The Lord will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do – yes, he will bless you in the land he ²⁵  is giving you.

Ulangan 28:20

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you ²⁶  in everything you undertake ²⁷  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. ²⁸ 

Ulangan 30:5

30:5 Then he ²⁹  will bring you to the land your ancestors ³⁰  possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

Ulangan 32:20

32:20 He said, “I will reject them, ³¹ 

I will see what will happen to them;

for they are a perverse generation,

children ³²  who show no loyalty.

Ulangan 32:35

32:35 I will get revenge and pay them back

at the time their foot slips;

for the day of their disaster is near,

and the impending judgment ³³  is rushing upon them!”

Ulangan 33:3

33:3 Surely he loves the people; ³⁴ 

all your holy ones ³⁵  are in your power. ³⁶ 

And they sit ³⁷  at your feet,

each receiving ³⁸  your words.

[1:27]  ¹ tn Heb “in your tents,” that is, privately.

[1:43]  ² tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.” See note at 1:26.

[3:27]  ³ tn Heb “lift your eyes to the west, north, south, and east and see with your eyes.” The translation omits the repetition of “your eyes” for stylistic reasons.

[4:12]  ⁴ tn The words “was heard” are supplied in the translation to avoid the impression that the voice was seen.

[4:13]  ⁵ sn This is the first occurrence of the word בְּרִית (bÿrit, “covenant”) in the Book of Deuteronomy but it appears commonly hereafter (4:23, 31; 5:2, 3; 7:9, 12; 8:18; 9:9, 10, 11, 15; 10:2, 4, 5, 8; 17:2; 29:1, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 21, 25; 31:9, 16, 20, 25, 26; 33:9). Etymologically, it derives from the notion of linking or yoking together. See M. Weinfeld, TDOT 2:255.

[4:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “the ten words.”

[4:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 4:3.

[4:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “commanded.”

[6:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you and destroy you from upon the surface of the ground.” Cf. KJV, ASV “from off the face of the earth.”

[11:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “that not.” The words “I am speaking” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[11:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the Lord.” The collocation of the verbs “know” and “see” indicates that personal experience (knowing by seeing) is in view. The term translated “discipline” (KJV, ASV “chastisement”) may also be rendered “instruction,” but vv. 2b-6 indicate that the referent of the term is the various acts of divine judgment the Israelites had witnessed.

[11:2]  ¹² tn The words “which revealed” have been supplied in the translation to show the logical relationship between the terms that follow and the divine judgments. In the Hebrew text the former are in apposition to the latter.

[11:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “his strong hand and his stretched-out arm.”

[12:3]  ¹⁴ sn Sacred pillars. These are the stelae (stone pillars; the Hebrew term is מַצֵּבֹת, matsevot) associated with Baal worship, perhaps to mark a spot hallowed by an alleged visitation of the gods. See also Deut 7:5.

[12:3]  ¹⁵ sn Sacred Asherah poles. The Hebrew term (plural) is אֲשֵׁרִים (’asherim). See note on the word “(leafy) tree” in v. 2, and also Deut 7:5.

[15:10]  ¹⁶ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “by all means.”

[15:10]  ¹⁷ tc Heb “your heart must not be grieved in giving to him.” The LXX and Orig add, “you shall surely lend to him sufficient for his need,” a suggestion based on the same basic idea in v. 8. Such slavish adherence to stock phrases is without warrant in most cases, and certainly here.

[15:14]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “generously.”

[18:1]  ¹⁹ tn The MT places the terms “priests” and “Levites” in apposition, thus creating an epexegetical construction in which the second term qualifies the first, i.e., “Levitical priests.” This is a way of asserting their legitimacy as true priests. The Syriac renders “to the priest and to the Levite,” making a distinction between the two, but one that is out of place here.

[18:1]  ²⁰ sn Of his inheritance. This is a figurative way of speaking of the produce of the land the Lord will give to his people. It is the Lord’s inheritance, but the Levites are allowed to eat it since they themselves have no inheritance among the other tribes of Israel.

[23:17]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew term translated “sacred prostitute” here (קְדֵשָׁה [qÿdeshah], from קַדֵשׁ [qadesh, “holy”]; cf. NIV “shrine prostitute”; NASB “cult prostitute”; NRSV, TEV, NLT “temple prostitute”) refers to the pagan fertility cults that employed female and male prostitutes in various rituals designed to evoke agricultural and even human fecundity (cf. Gen 38:21-22; 1 Kgs 14:24; 15:12; 22:47; 2 Kgs 23:7; Hos 4:14). The Hebrew term for a regular, noncultic (i.e., “secular”) female prostitute is זוֹנָה (zonah).

[23:17]  ²² tn Heb “daughters.”

[23:17]  ²³ tn The male cultic prostitute was called קָדֵשׁ (qadesh; see note on the phrase “sacred prostitute” earlier in this verse). The colloquial Hebrew term for a “secular” male prostitute (i.e., a sodomite) is the disparaging epithet כֶּלֶב (kelev, “dog”) which occurs in the following verse (cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB).

[23:17]  ²⁴ tn Heb “sons.”

[28:8]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” Because English would not typically reintroduce the proper name following a relative pronoun (“he will bless…the Lord your God is giving”), the pronoun (“he”) has been employed here in the translation.

[28:20]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

[28:20]  ²⁷ tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

[28:20]  ²⁸ tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.

[28:20]  tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”

[30:5]  ²⁹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.

[30:5]  ³⁰ tn Heb “fathers” (also later in this verse and in vv. 9, 20).

[32:20]  ³¹ tn Heb “I will hide my face from them.”

[32:20]  ³² tn Heb “sons” (so NAB, NASB); TEV “unfaithful people.”

[32:35]  ³³ tn Heb “prepared things,” “impending things.” See BDB 800 s.v. עָתִיד.

[33:3]  ³⁴ tc Heb “peoples.” The apparent plural form is probably a misunderstood singular (perhaps with a pronominal suffix) with enclitic mem (ם). See HALOT 838 s.v. עַם B.2.

[33:3]  ³⁵ tc Heb “his holy ones.” The third person masculine singular suffix of the Hebrew MT is problematic in light of the second person masculine singular suffix on בְּיָדֶךָ (bÿyadekha, “your hands”). The LXX versions by Lucian and Origen read, therefore, “the holy ones.” The LXX version by Theodotion and the Vulgate, however, presuppose third masculine singular suffix on בְּיָדָיו (bÿyadayv, “his hands”), and thus retain “his holy ones.” The efforts to bring pronominal harmony into the line is commendable but unnecessary given the Hebrew tendency to be untroubled by such grammatical inconsistencies. However, the translation harmonizes the first pronoun with the second so that the referent (the Lord) is clear.

[33:3]  ³⁶ tn Heb “hands.” For the problem of the pronoun see note on the term “holy ones” earlier in this verse.

[33:3]  ³⁷ tn The Hebrew term תֻּכּוּ (tuku, probably Pual perfect of תָּכָה, takhah) is otherwise unknown. The present translation is based on the reference to feet and, apparently, receiving instruction in God’s words (cf. KJV, ASV). Other options are as follows: NIV “At your feet they all bow down” (cf. NCV, CEV); NLT “They follow in your steps” (cf. NAB, NASB); NRSV “they marched at your heels.”

[33:3]  ³⁸ tn The singular verbal form in the Hebrew text (lit. “he lifts up”) is understood in a distributive manner, focusing on the action of each individual within the group.