Ulangan 1:20-21

1:20 Then I said to you, “You have come to the Amorite hill country which the Lord our God is about to give ¹  us. 1:21 Look, he ²  has placed the land in front of you! ³  Go up, take possession of it, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”

Ulangan 1:35

1:35 “Not a single person ⁴  of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

Ulangan 2:34

2:34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them ⁵  under divine judgment, ⁶  including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

Ulangan 4:22

4:22 So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that ⁷  good land.

Ulangan 5:3

5:3 He ⁸  did not make this covenant with our ancestors ⁹  but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

Ulangan 5:10

5:10 but I show covenant faithfulness ¹⁰  to the thousands ¹¹  who choose ¹²  me and keep my commandments.

Ulangan 9:2

9:2 They include the Anakites, ¹³  a numerous ¹⁴  and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, “Who is able to resist the Anakites?”

Ulangan 12:22-23

12:22 Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them. 12:23 However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself ¹⁵  – you must not eat the life with the meat!

Ulangan 17:3

17:3 by serving other gods and worshiping them – the sun, ¹⁶  moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship. ¹⁷ 

Ulangan 22:14

22:14 accusing her of impropriety ¹⁸  and defaming her reputation ¹⁹  by saying, “I married this woman but when I had sexual relations ²⁰  with her I discovered she was not a virgin!”

Ulangan 24:13

24:13 You must by all means ²¹  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 ²²  deed by the Lord your God.

Ulangan 25:2-3

25:2 Then, ²³  if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, ²⁴  the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves. ²⁵  25:3 The judge ²⁶  may sentence him to forty blows, ²⁷  but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite ²⁸  with contempt.

Ulangan 25:15

25:15 You must have an accurate and correct ²⁹  stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.

Ulangan 26:7

26:7 So we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and he ³⁰  heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

Ulangan 27:4

27:4 So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal ³¹  these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.

Ulangan 27:6

27:6 You must build the altar of the Lord your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.

Ulangan 28:59

28:59 then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

Ulangan 31:11

31:11 when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them ³²  within their hearing.

Ulangan 34:12

34:12 and he displayed great power ³³  and awesome might in view of all Israel. ³⁴ 

[1:20]  ¹ tn The Hebrew participle has an imminent future sense here, although many English versions treat it as a present tense (“is giving us,” NAB, NIV, NRSV) or a predictive future (“will give us,” NCV).

[1:21]  ² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun (“he”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid repetition.

[1:21]  ³ tn Or “has given you the land” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[1:35]  ⁴ tn Heb “Not a man among these men.”

[2:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “every city of men.” This apparently identifies the cities as inhabited.

[2:34]  ⁶ tn Heb “under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). The verb employed is חָרַם (kharam, usually in the Hiphil) and the associated noun is חֵרֶם (kherem). See J. Naudé, NIDOTTE, 2:276-77, and, for a more thorough discussion, Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible, 28-77.

[2:34]  sn Divine judgment refers to God’s designation of certain persons, places, and things as objects of his special wrath and judgment because, in his omniscience, he knows them to be impure and hopelessly unrepentant.

[4:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “this.” The translation uses “that” to avoid confusion; earlier in the verse Moses refers to Transjordan as “this land.”

[5:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[5:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “fathers.”

[5:10]  ¹⁰ tn This theologically rich term (חֶסֶד, khesed) describes God’s loyalty to those who keep covenant with him. Sometimes it is used synonymously with בְּרִית (bÿrit, “covenant”; Deut 7:9), and sometimes interchangeably with it (Deut 7:12). See H.-J. Zobel, TDOT 5:44-64.

[5:10]  ¹¹ tc By a slight emendation (לַאֲלּוּפִים [la’allufim] for לַאֲלָפִים [la’alafim]) “clans” could be read in place of the MT reading “thousands.” However, no ms or versional evidence exists to support this emendation.

[5:10]  tn Another option is to understand this as referring to “thousands (of generations) of those who love me” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). See Deut 7:9.

[5:10]  ¹² tn Heb “love.” See note on the word “reject” in v. 9.

[9:2]  ¹³ sn Anakites. See note on this term in Deut 1:28.

[9:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “great and tall.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “strong,” NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

[12:23]  ¹⁵ sn The blood is life itself. This is a figure of speech (metonymy) in which the cause or means (the blood) stands for the result or effect (life). That is, life depends upon the existence and circulation of blood, a truth known empirically but not scientifically tested and proved until the 17th century a.d. (cf. Lev 17:11).

[17:3]  ¹⁶ tc The MT reads “and to the sun,” thus including the sun, the moon, and other heavenly spheres among the gods. However, Theodotion and Lucian read “or to the sun,” suggesting perhaps that the sun and the other heavenly bodies are not in the category of actual deities.

[17:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “which I have not commanded you.” The words “to worship” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[22:14]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “deeds of things”; NRSV “makes up charges against her”; NIV “slanders her.”

[22:14]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “brings against her a bad name”; NIV “gives her a bad name.”

[22:14]  ²⁰ tn Heb “drew near to her.” This is another Hebrew euphemism for having sexual relations.

[24:13]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “by all means.”

[24:13]  ²² tn Or “righteous” (so NIV, NLT).

[25:2]  ²³ tn Heb “and it will be.”

[25:2]  ²⁴ tn Heb “if the evil one is a son of smiting.”

[25:2]  ²⁵ tn Heb “according to his wickedness, by number.”

[25:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the judge) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:3]  ²⁷ tn Heb “Forty blows he may strike him”; however, since the judge is to witness the punishment (v. 2) it is unlikely the judge himself administered it.

[25:3]  ²⁸ tn Heb “your brothers” but not limited only to an actual sibling; cf. NAB) “your kinsman”; NRSV, NLT “your neighbor.”

[25:15]  ²⁹ tn Or “just”; Heb “righteous.”

[26:7]  ³⁰ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 26:2.

[27:4]  ³¹ tc Smr reads “Mount Gerizim” for the MT reading “Mount Ebal” to justify the location of the Samaritan temple there in the postexilic period. This reading is patently self-serving and does not reflect the original. In the NT when the Samaritan woman of Sychar referred to “this mountain” as the place of worship for her community she obviously had Gerizim in mind (cf. John 4:20).

[31:11]  ³² tn Heb “before all Israel.”

[34:12]  ³³ tn Heb “strong hand.”

[34:12]  ³⁴ tn The Hebrew text of v. 12 reads literally, “with respect to all the strong hand and with respect to all the awesome greatness which Moses did before the eyes of all Israel.”