Ulangan 1:7

1:7 Get up now, ¹  resume your journey, heading for ²  the Amorite hill country, to all its areas ³  including the arid country, ⁴  the highlands, the Shephelah, ⁵  the Negev, ⁶  and the coastal plain – all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.

Ulangan 1:28

1:28 What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage ⁷  by describing people who are more numerous ⁸  and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven ⁹  itself! Moreover, they said they saw ¹⁰  Anakites ¹¹  there.”

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 ¹²  to the descendants of Lot ¹³  as their possession.

Ulangan 2:19

2:19 But when you come close to the Ammonites, do not harass or provoke them because I am not giving you any of the Ammonites’ land as your possession; I have already given it to Lot’s descendants ¹⁴  as their possession.

Ulangan 3:20

3:20 You must fight ¹⁵  until the Lord gives your countrymen victory ¹⁶  as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”

Ulangan 4:19

4:19 When you look up ¹⁷  to the sky ¹⁸  and see the sun, moon, and stars – the whole heavenly creation ¹⁹  – you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, ²⁰  for the Lord your God has assigned ²¹  them to all the people ²²  of the world. ²³ 

Ulangan 4:21

4:21 But the Lord became angry with me because of you and vowed that I would never cross the Jordan nor enter the good land that he ²⁴  is about to give you. ²⁵ 

Ulangan 4:26

4:26 I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you ²⁶  today that you will surely and swiftly be removed ²⁷  from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be ²⁸  annihilated.

Ulangan 4:36

4:36 From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words. ²⁹ 

Ulangan 7:8-9

7:8 Rather it is because of his ³⁰  love ³¹  for you and his faithfulness to the promise ³²  he solemnly vowed ³³  to your ancestors ³⁴  that the Lord brought you out with great power, ³⁵  redeeming ³⁶  you from the place of slavery, from the power ³⁷  of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 7:9 So realize that the Lord your God is the true God, ³⁸  the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully ³⁹  with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Ulangan 9:4-5

9:4 Do not think to yourself after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, “Because of my own righteousness the Lord has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you. 9:5 It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, ⁴⁰  that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he ⁴¹  made on oath to your ancestors, ⁴²  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Ulangan 9:18

9:18 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.

Ulangan 10:12

An Exhortation to Love Both God and People

10:12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, ⁴³  to obey all his commandments, ⁴⁴  to love him, to serve him ⁴⁵  with all your mind and being, ⁴⁶ 

Ulangan 12:30

12:30 After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.”

Ulangan 18:18

18:18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

Ulangan 21:16

21:16 In the day he divides his inheritance ⁴⁷  he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other ⁴⁸  wife’s son who is actually the firstborn.

Ulangan 22:17

22:17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out ⁴⁹  before the city’s elders.

Ulangan 26:17

26:17 Today you have declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

Ulangan 26:19

26:19 Then ⁵⁰  he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. ⁵¹  You will ⁵²  be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he has said.

Ulangan 28:15

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

28:15 “But if you ignore ⁵³  the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: ⁵⁴ 

Ulangan 28:25

Curses by Defeat and Deportation

28:25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror ⁵⁵  to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Ulangan 30:16

30:16 What ⁵⁶  I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess. ⁵⁷ 

Ulangan 30:19

30:19 Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!

Ulangan 32:43

32:43 Cry out, O nations, with his people,

for he will avenge his servants’ blood;

he will take vengeance against his enemies,

and make atonement for his land and people.

[1:7]  ¹ tn Heb “turn”; NAB “Leave here”; NIV, TEV “Break camp.”

[1:7]  ² tn Heb “go (to).”

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “its dwelling places.”

[1:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Arabah” (so ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “lowlands” (so TEV) or “steppes”; NIV, CEV, NLT “the western foothills.”

[1:7]  sn The Shephelah is the geographical region between the Mediterranean coastal plain and the Judean hill country.

[1:7]  ⁶ sn The Hebrew term Negev means literally “desert” or “south” (so KJV, ASV). It refers to the area south of Beer Sheba and generally west of the Arabah Valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.

[1:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “have caused our hearts to melt.”

[1:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “greater.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “stronger,” NAB, NIV, NRSV; “bigger,” NASB).

[1:28]  ⁹ tn Or “as the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[1:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “we have seen.”

[1:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the sons of the Anakim.”

[1:28]  sn Anakites were giant people (Num 13:33; Deut 2:10, 21; 9:2) descended from a certain Anak whose own forefather Arba founded the city of Kiriath Arba, i.e., Hebron (Josh 21:11).

[2:9]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ 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.

[2:19]  ¹⁴ sn Lot’s descendants. See note on this phrase in Deut 2:9.

[3:20]  ¹⁵ tn The words “you must fight” are not present in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[3:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “gives your brothers rest.”

[4:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “lest you lift up your eyes.” In the Hebrew text vv. 16-19 are subordinated to “Be careful” in v. 15, but this makes for an unduly long sentence in English.

[4:19]  ¹⁸ tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[4:19]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “all the host of heaven.”

[4:19]  ²⁰ tn In the Hebrew text the verbal sequence in v. 19 is “lest you look up…and see…and be seduced…and worship them…and serve them.” However, the first two actions are not prohibited in and of themselves. The prohibition pertains to the final three actions. The first two verbs describe actions that are logically subordinate to the following actions and can be treated as temporal or circumstantial: “lest, looking up…and seeing…, you are seduced.” See Joüon 2:635 §168.h.

[4:19]  ²¹ tn Or “allotted.”

[4:19]  ²² tn Or “nations.”

[4:19]  ²³ tn Heb “under all the heaven.”

[4:19]  sn The OT views the heavenly host as God’s council, which surrounds his royal throne ready to do his bidding (see 1 Kgs 22:19). God has given this group, sometimes called the “sons of God” (cf. Job 1:6; 38:7; Ps 89:6), jurisdiction over the nations. See Deut 32:8 (LXX). Some also see this assembly as the addressee in Ps 82. While God delegated his council to rule over the nations, he established a theocratic government over Israel and ruled directly over his chosen people via the Mosaic covenant. See v. 20, as well as Deut 32:9.

[4:21]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 4:3.

[4:21]  ²⁵ tn The Hebrew text includes “(as) an inheritance,” or “(as) a possession.”

[4:26]  ²⁶ sn I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you. This stock formula introduces what is known form-critically as a רִיב (riv) or controversy pattern. It is commonly used in the ancient Near Eastern world in legal contexts and in the OT as a forensic or judicial device to draw attention to Israel’s violation of the Lord’s covenant with them (see Deut 30:19; Isa 1:2; 3:13; Jer 2:9). Since court proceedings required the testimony of witnesses, the Lord here summons heaven and earth (that is, all creation) to testify to his faithfulness, Israel’s disobedience, and the threat of judgment.

[4:26]  ²⁷ tn Or “be destroyed”; KJV “utterly perish”; NLT “will quickly disappear”; CEV “you won’t have long to live.”

[4:26]  ²⁸ tn Or “be completely” (so NCV, TEV). It is not certain here if the infinitive absolute indicates the certainty of the following action (cf. NIV) or its degree.

[4:36]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and his words you heard from the midst of the fire.”

[7:8]  ³⁰ tn Heb “the Lord’s.” See note on “He” in 7:6.

[7:8]  ³¹ 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]  ³² tn Heb “oath.” This is a reference to the promises of the so-called “Abrahamic Covenant” (cf. Gen 15:13-16).

[7:8]  ³³ tn Heb “swore on oath.”

[7:8]  ³⁴ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 12, 13).

[7:8]  ³⁵ tn Heb “by a strong hand” (NAB similar); NLT “with such amazing power.”

[7:8]  ³⁶ 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]  ³⁷ tn Heb “hand” (so KJV, NRSV), a metaphor for power or domination.

[7:9]  ³⁸ tn Heb “the God.” The article here expresses uniqueness; cf. TEV “is the only God”; NLT “is indeed God.”

[7:9]  ³⁹ tn Heb “who keeps covenant and loyalty.” The syndetic construction of בְּרִית (bÿrit) and חֶסֶד (khesed) should be understood not as “covenant” plus “loyalty” but as an adverbial construction in which חֶסֶד (“loyalty”) modifies the verb שָׁמַר (shamar, “keeps”).

[9:5]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “uprightness of your heart” (so NASB, NRSV). The Hebrew word צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah, “righteousness”), though essentially synonymous here with יֹשֶׁר (yosher, “uprightness”), carries the idea of conformity to an objective standard. The term יֹשֶׁר has more to do with an inner, moral quality (cf. NAB, NIV “integrity”). Neither, however, was grounds for the Lord’s favor. As he states in both vv. 4-5, the main reason he allowed Israel to take this land was the sinfulness of the Canaanites who lived there (cf. Gen 15:16).

[9:5]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

[9:5]  ⁴² tn Heb “fathers.”

[10:12]  ⁴³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

[10:12]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “to walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV); NAB “follow his ways exactly”; NLT “to live according to his will.”

[10:12]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

[10:12]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being”; NCV “with your whole being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[21:16]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “when he causes his sons to inherit what is his.”

[21:16]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “the hated.”

[22:17]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “they will spread the garment.”

[26:19]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “so that.” Verses 18-19 are one sentence in the Hebrew text, but the translation divides it into three sentences for stylistic reasons. The first clause in verse 19 gives a result of the preceding clause. When Israel keeps God’s law, God will bless them with fame and honor (cf. NAB “he will then raise you high in praise and renown and glory”; NLT “And if you do, he will make you greater than any other nation”).

[26:19]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “for praise and for a name and for glory.”

[26:19]  ⁵² tn Heb “and to be.” A new sentence was started here for stylistic reasons.

[28:15]  ⁵³ tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”

[28:15]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”

[28:25]  ⁵⁵ tc The meaningless MT reading זַעֲוָה (za’avah) is clearly a transposition of the more commonly attested Hebrew noun זְוָעָה (zÿva’ah, “terror”).

[30:16]  ⁵⁶ tc A number of LXX mss insert before this verse, “if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,” thus translating אֲשֶׁר (’asher) as “which” and the rest as “I am commanding you today, to love,” etc., “then you will live,” etc.

[30:16]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “which you are going there to possess it.” This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.