Ulangan 20:9

20:9 Then, when the officers have finished speaking, ¹  they must appoint unit commanders ²  to lead the troops.

Ulangan 1:15

1:15 So I chose ³  as your tribal leaders wise and well-known men, placing them over you as administrators of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and also as other tribal officials.

Ulangan 33:21

33:21 He has selected the best part for himself,

for the portion of the ruler ⁴  is set aside ⁵  there;

he came with the leaders ⁶  of the people,

he obeyed the righteous laws of the Lord

and his ordinances with Israel.

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.” ⁷ 

Ulangan 1:38

1:38 However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, ⁸  will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land. ⁹ 

Ulangan 32:12

32:12 The Lord alone was guiding him, ¹⁰ 

no foreign god was with him.

Ulangan 33:5

33:5 The Lord ¹¹  was king over Jeshurun, ¹² 

when the leaders of the people assembled,

the tribes of Israel together. ¹³ 

Ulangan 3:28

3:28 Commission ¹⁴  Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, because he will lead these people over and will enable them to inherit the land you will see.”

Ulangan 31:3

31:3 As for the Lord your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the Lord has said.

Ulangan 8:15

8:15 and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents ¹⁵  and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow ¹⁶  from a flint rock and

Ulangan 1:13

1:13 Select wise and practical ¹⁷  men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders.”

Ulangan 1:30

1:30 The Lord your God is about to go ¹⁸  ahead of you; he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt ¹⁹ 

Ulangan 10:11

10:11 Then he ²⁰  said to me, “Get up, set out leading ²¹  the people so they may go and possess ²²  the land I promised to give to their ancestors.” ²³ 

Ulangan 29:5

29:5 I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out ²⁴  nor have your sandals ²⁵  deteriorated.

Ulangan 31:2

31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, ²⁶  and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’

Ulangan 31:28

31:28 Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

Ulangan 8:2

8:2 Remember the whole way by which he ²⁷  has brought you these forty years through the desert ²⁸  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Ulangan 31:7

31:7 Then Moses called out to Joshua ²⁹  in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will accompany these people to the land that the Lord promised to give their ancestors, ³⁰  and you will enable them to inherit it.

Ulangan 1:9

1:9 I also said to you at that time, “I am no longer able to sustain you by myself.

Ulangan 21:2

21:2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse. ³¹ 

Ulangan 27:1

The Assembly at Shechem

27:1 Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Pay attention to all the commandments ³²  I am giving ³³  you today.

Ulangan 5:23

5:23 Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.

Ulangan 19:12

19:12 The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger ³⁴  to die.

Ulangan 29:10

29:10 You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, ³⁵  your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

Ulangan 31:9

The Deposit of the Covenant Text

31:9 Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all Israel’s elders.

Ulangan 3:18

Instructions to the Transjordanian Tribes

3:18 At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites ³⁶  equipped for battle.

Ulangan 20:5

20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, ³⁷  “Who among you ³⁸  has built a new house and not dedicated ³⁹  it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else ⁴⁰  dedicate it.

Ulangan 28:13

28:13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his ⁴¹  commandments which I am urging ⁴²  you today to be careful to do.

Ulangan 31:23

31:23 and the Lord ⁴³  commissioned Joshua son of Nun, “Be strong and courageous, for you will take the Israelites to the land I have promised them, and I will be with you.” ⁴⁴ 

Ulangan 33:16

33:16 with the harvest of the earth and its fullness

and the pleasure of him who resided in the burning bush. ⁴⁵ 

May blessing rest on Joseph’s head,

and on the top of the head of the one set apart ⁴⁶  from his brothers.

[20:9]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text includes “to the people,” but this phrase has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[20:9]  ² tn Heb “princes of hosts.”

[1:15]  ³ tn Or “selected”; Heb “took.”

[33:21]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term מְחֹקֵק (mÿkhoqeq; Poel participle of חָקַק, khaqaq, “to inscribe”) reflects the idea that the recorder of allotments (the “ruler”) is able to set aside for himself the largest and best. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 444-45.

[33:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “covered in” (if from the root סָפַן, safan; cf. HALOT 764-65 s.v. ספן qal).

[33:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “heads” (in the sense of chieftains).

[9:12]  ⁷ 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.

[1:38]  ⁸ tn Heb “the one who stands before you”; NAB “your aide”; TEV “your helper.”

[1:38]  ⁹ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the land) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:12]  ¹⁰ tn The distinctive form of the suffix on this verb form indicates that the verb is an imperfect, not a preterite. As such it draws attention to God’s continuing guidance during the period in view.

[33:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he was king.” The present translation avoids the sudden shift in person and the mistaken impression that Moses is the referent by specifying the referent as “the Lord.”

[33:5]  ¹² sn Jeshurun is a term of affection referring to Israel, derived from the Hebrew verb יָשַׁר (yashar, “be upright”). See note on the term in Deut 32:15.

[33:5]  ¹³ sn The following blessing is given to the tribes in order, although the tribe of Simeon is curiously missing from the list.

[3:28]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “command”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “charge Joshua.”

[8:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “flaming serpents”; KJV, NASB “fiery serpents”; NAB “saraph serpents.” This figure of speech (metonymy) probably describes the venomous and painful results of snakebite. The feeling from such an experience would be like a burning fire (שָׂרָף, saraf).

[8:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the one who brought out for you water.” In the Hebrew text this continues the preceding sentence, but the translation begins a new sentence here for stylistic reasons.

[1:13]  ¹⁷ tn The Hebrew verb נְבֹנִים (nÿvonim, from בִּין [bin]) is a Niphal referring to skill or intelligence (see T. Fretheim, NIDOTTE 1:652-53).

[1:30]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew participle indicates imminent future action here, though some English versions treat it as a predictive future (“will go ahead of you,” NCV; cf. also TEV, CEV).

[1:30]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “according to all which he did for you in Egypt before your eyes.”

[10:11]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

[10:11]  ²¹ tn Heb “before” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, NRSV “at the head of.”

[10:11]  ²² tn After the imperative these subordinated jussive forms (with prefixed vav) indicate purpose or result.

[10:11]  ²³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 15, 22).

[29:5]  ²⁴ tn The Hebrew text includes “on you.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[29:5]  ²⁵ tn The Hebrew text includes “from on your feet.”

[31:2]  ²⁶ tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”

[8:2]  ²⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:2]  ²⁸ tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.

[31:7]  ²⁹ tn The Hebrew text includes “and said to him.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[31:7]  ³⁰ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 20).

[21:2]  ³¹ tn Heb “surrounding the slain [one].”

[27:1]  ³² tn Heb “the whole commandment.” See note at 5:31.

[27:1]  ³³ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 10).

[19:12]  ³⁴ tn The גֹאֵל הַדָּם (go’el haddam, “avenger of blood”) would ordinarily be a member of the victim’s family who, after due process of law, was invited to initiate the process of execution (cf. Num 35:16-28). See R. Hubbard, NIDOTTE 1:789-94.

[29:10]  ³⁵ tc Heb “your heads, your tribes.” The Syriac presupposes either “heads of your tribes” or “your heads, your judges,” etc. (reading שֹׁפְטֵכֶם [shofÿtekhem] for שִׁבְטֵיכֶם [shivtekhem]). Its comparative difficulty favors the originality of the MT reading. Cf. KJV “your captains of your tribes”; NRSV “the leaders of your tribes”; NLT “your tribal leaders.”

[3:18]  ³⁶ tn Heb “your brothers, the sons of Israel.”

[20:5]  ³⁷ tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).

[20:5]  ³⁸ tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).

[20:5]  ³⁹ tn The Hebrew term חָנַךְ (khanakh) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form (חָנֻכָּה, khanukah) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar (2 Chr 7:9) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).

[20:5]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “another man.”

[28:13]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:13]  ⁴² tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”

[31:23]  ⁴³ tn Heb “he.” Since the pronoun could be taken to refer to Moses, the referent has been specified as “the Lord” in the translation for clarity. See also the note on the word “you” later in this verse.

[31:23]  ⁴⁴ tc The LXX reads, “as the Lord promised them, and he will be with you.” This relieves the problem of Moses apparently promising to be with Joshua as the MT reads on the surface (“I will be with you”). However, the reading of the LXX is clearly an attempt to clarify an existing obscurity and therefore is unlikely to reflect the original.

[33:16]  ⁴⁵ tn The expression “him who resided in the bush” is frequently understood as a reference to the appearance of the Lord to Moses at Sinai from a burning bush (so NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT; cf. Exod 2:2-6; 3:2, 4). To make this reference clear the word “burning” is supplied in the translation.

[33:16]  ⁴⁶ sn This apparently refers to Joseph’s special status among his brothers as a result of his being chosen by God to save the family from the famine and to lead Egypt.