Ulangan 2:9

2:9 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass Moab and provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as your territory. This is because I have given Ar ¹  to the descendants of Lot ²  as their possession.

Ulangan 7:8

7:8 Rather it is because of his ³  love ⁴  for you and his faithfulness to the promise ⁵  he solemnly vowed ⁶  to your ancestors ⁷  that the Lord brought you out with great power, ⁸  redeeming ⁹  you from the place of slavery, from the power ¹⁰  of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Ulangan 10:1

The Opportunity to Begin Again

10:1 At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark. ¹¹ 

Ulangan 13:16

13:16 You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza ¹²  and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin ¹³  forever – it must never be rebuilt again.

Ulangan 21:21

21:21 Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out ¹⁴  wickedness from among you, and all Israel ¹⁵  will hear about it and be afraid.

Ulangan 22:21

22:21 the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing ¹⁶  in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge ¹⁷  evil from among you.

Ulangan 22:24

22:24 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 ¹⁸  his neighbor’s fiancée; ¹⁹  in this way you will purge ²⁰  evil from among you.

Ulangan 23:14

23:14 For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat ²¹  your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent ²²  among you and turn away from you.

Ulangan 26:14

26:14 I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; ²³  I have obeyed you ²⁴  and have done everything you have commanded me.

Ulangan 31:12

31:12 Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.

[2:9]  ¹ sn Ar was a Moabite city on the Arnon River east of the Dead Sea. It is mentioned elsewhere in the “Book of the Wars of Yahweh” (Num 21:15; cf. 21:28; Isa 15:1). Here it is synonymous with the whole land of Moab.

[2:9]  ² sn The descendants of Lot. Following the destruction of the cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, as God’s judgment, Lot fathered two sons by his two daughters, namely, Moab and Ammon (Gen 19:30-38). Thus, these descendants of Lot in and around Ar were the Moabites.

[7:8]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord’s.” See note on “He” in 7:6.

[7:8]  ⁴ 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.

[7:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “oath.” This is a reference to the promises of the so-called “Abrahamic Covenant” (cf. Gen 15:13-16).

[7:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “swore on oath.”

[7:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 12, 13).

[7:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “by a strong hand” (NAB similar); NLT “with such amazing power.”

[7:8]  ⁹ 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 Lord as ransom in exchange for deliverance from bondage and death (Exod 12:1-14). Later, the firstborn sons of Israel, represented by the Levites, became the ransom (Num 3:11-13). These were all types of the redemption effected by the death of Christ who described his atoning work as “a ransom for many” (Matt 20:28; cf. 1 Pet 1:18).

[7:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “hand” (so KJV, NRSV), a metaphor for power or domination.

[10:1]  ¹¹ tn Or “chest” (so NIV, CEV); NLT “sacred chest”; TEV “wooden box.” This chest was made of acacia wood; it is later known as the ark of the covenant.

[13:16]  ¹² tn Heb “street.”

[13:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “mound”; NAB “a heap of ruins.” The Hebrew word תֵּל (tel) refers to this day to a ruin represented especially by a built-up mound of dirt or debris (cf. Tel Aviv, “mound of grain”).

[21:21]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew term בִּעַרְתָּה (bi’artah), here and elsewhere in such contexts (cf. Deut 13:5; 17:7, 12; 19:19; 21:9), suggests God’s anger which consumes like fire (thus בָעַר, ba’ar, “to burn”). See H. Ringgren, TDOT 2:203-4.

[21:21]  ¹⁵ tc Some LXX traditions read הַנִּשְׁאָרִים (hannish’arim, “those who remain”) for the MT’s יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra’el, “Israel”), understandable in light of Deut 19:20. However, the more difficult reading found in the MT is more likely original.

[22:21]  ¹⁶ tn The Hebrew term נְבָלָה (nÿvalah) means more than just something stupid. It refers to a moral lapse so serious as to jeopardize the whole covenant community (cf. Gen 34:7; Judg 19:23; 20:6, 10; Jer 29:23). See C. Pan, NIDOTTE 3:11-13. Cf. NAB “she committed a crime against Israel.”

[22:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “burn.” See note on Deut 21:21.

[22:24]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “humbled.”

[22:24]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “wife.”

[22:24]  ²⁰ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

[23:14]  ²¹ tn Heb “give [over] your enemies.”

[23:14]  ²² 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.

[26:14]  ²³ sn These practices suggest overtones of pagan ritual, all of which the confessor denies having undertaken. In Canaan they were connected with fertility practices associated with harvest time. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 335-36.

[26:14]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the Lord my God.” See note on “he” in 26:2.