Ulangan 20:20

20:20 However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, ¹  and you may use it to build siege works ²  against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.

Ulangan 20:19

20:19 If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, ³  you must not chop down its trees, ⁴  for you may eat fruit ⁵  from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it! ⁶ 

Ulangan 29:5

29:5 I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out ⁷  nor have your sandals ⁸  deteriorated.

Ulangan 23:1

Purity in Public Worship

23:1 A man with crushed ⁹  or severed genitals ¹⁰  may not enter the assembly of the Lord. ¹¹ 

Ulangan 4:16

4:16 I say this ¹²  so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,

Ulangan 20:8

20:8 In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s ¹³  heart as fearful ¹⁴  as his own.”

Ulangan 28:20

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you ¹⁵  in everything you undertake ¹⁶  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. ¹⁷ 

Ulangan 28:22

28:22 He ¹⁸  will afflict you with weakness, ¹⁹  fever, inflammation, infection, ²⁰  sword, ²¹  blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.

Ulangan 32:5

32:5 His people have been unfaithful ²²  to him;

they have not acted like his children ²³  – this is their sin. ²⁴ 

They are a perverse ²⁵  and deceitful generation.

Ulangan 32:24

32:24 They will be starved by famine,

eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; ²⁶ 

I will send the teeth of wild animals against them,

along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.

Ulangan 4:25

Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience

4:25 After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, ²⁷  if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind ²⁸  and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him, ²⁹ 

Ulangan 9:12

9:12 And he said to me, “Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.” ³⁰ 

Ulangan 22:19

22:19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ³¹  ruined the reputation ³²  of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Ulangan 28:63

28:63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he ³³  will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

Ulangan 31:29

31:29 For I know that after I die you will totally ³⁴  corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly ³⁵  before the Lord, inciting him to anger because of your actions.” ³⁶ 

[20:20]  ¹ tn Heb “however, a tree which you know is not a tree for food you may destroy and cut down.”

[20:20]  ² tn Heb “[an] enclosure.” The term מָצוֹר (matsor) may refer to encircling ditches or to surrounding stagings. See R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 238.

[20:19]  ³ tn Heb “to fight against it to capture it.”

[20:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “you must not destroy its trees by chopping them with an iron” (i.e., an ax).

[20:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “you may eat from them.” The direct object is not expressed; the word “fruit” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[20:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “to go before you in siege.”

[29:5]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text includes “on you.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[29:5]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text includes “from on your feet.”

[23:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “bruised by crushing,” which many English versions take to refer to crushed testicles (NAB, NRSV, NLT); TEV “who has been castrated.”

[23:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “cut off with respect to the penis”; KJV, ASV “hath his privy member cut off”; English versions vary in their degree of euphemism here; cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV, NLT “penis”; NASB “male organ”; NCV “sex organ”; CEV “private parts”; NIV “emasculated by crushing or cutting.”

[23:1]  ¹¹ sn The Hebrew term translated “assembly” (קָהָל, qahal) does not refer here to the nation as such but to the formal services of the tabernacle or temple. Since emasculated or other sexually abnormal persons were commonly associated with pagan temple personnel, the thrust here may be primarily polemical in intent. One should not read into this anything having to do with the mentally and physically handicapped as fit to participate in the life and ministry of the church.

[4:16]  ¹² tn The words “I say this” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text v. 16 is subordinated to “Be careful” in v. 15, but this makes for an unduly long sentence in English.

[20:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “his brother’s.”

[20:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “melted.”

[28:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

[28:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

[28:20]  ¹⁷ 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.”

[28:22]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “The Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:22]  ¹⁹ tn Or perhaps “consumption” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV). The term is from a verbal root that indicates a weakening of one’s physical strength (cf. NAB “wasting”; NIV, NLT “wasting disease”).

[28:22]  ²⁰ tn Heb “hot fever”; NIV “scorching heat.”

[28:22]  ²¹ tn Or “drought” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[32:5]  ²² tc The 3rd person masculine singular שָׁחַת (shakhat) is rendered as 3rd person masculine plural by Smr, a reading supported by the plural suffix on מוּם (mum, “defect”) as well as the plural of בֵּן (ben, “sons”).

[32:5]  tn Heb “have acted corruptly” (so NASB, NIV, NLT); NRSV “have dealt falsely.”

[32:5]  ²³ tn Heb “(they are) not his sons.”

[32:5]  ²⁴ tn Heb “defect” (so NASB). This highly elliptical line suggests that Israel’s major fault was its failure to act like God’s people; in fact, they acted quite the contrary.

[32:5]  ²⁵ tn Heb “twisted,” “crooked.” See Ps 18:26.

[32:24]  ²⁶ tn The Hebrew term קֶטֶב (qetev) is probably metaphorical here for the sting of a disease (HALOT 1091-92 s.v.).

[4:25]  ²⁷ tn Heb “have grown old in the land,” i.e., been there for a long time.

[4:25]  ²⁸ tn Heb “a form of anything.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, TEV “an idol.”

[4:25]  ²⁹ tn The infinitive construct is understood here as indicating the result, not the intention, of their actions.

[9:12]  ³⁰ tc Heb “a casting.” The MT reads מַסֵּכָה (massekhah, “a cast thing”) but some mss and Smr add עֵגֶל (’egel, “calf”), “a molten calf” or the like (Exod 32:8). Perhaps Moses here omits reference to the calf out of contempt for it.

[22:19]  ³¹ tn Heb “for he”; the referent (the man who made the accusation) has been specified in the translation to avoid confusion with the young woman’s father, the last-mentioned male.

[22:19]  ³² tn Heb “brought forth a bad name.”

[28:63]  ³³ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[31:29]  ³⁴ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “totally.”

[31:29]  ³⁵ tn Heb “do the evil.”

[31:29]  ³⁶ tn Heb “the work of your hands.”