Ulangan 4:9

Reminder of the Horeb Covenant

4:9 Again, however, pay very careful attention, ¹  lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

Ulangan 13:16

13:16 You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza ²  and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin ³  forever – it must never be rebuilt again.

Ulangan 29:20

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger ⁴  will rage ⁵  against that man; all the curses ⁶  written in this scroll will fall upon him ⁷  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. ⁸ 

Ulangan 31:14

The Commissioning of Joshua

31:14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The day of your death is near. Summon Joshua and present yourselves in the tent ⁹  of meeting ¹⁰  so that I can commission him.” ¹¹  So Moses and Joshua presented themselves in the tent of meeting.

[4:9]  ¹ tn Heb “watch yourself and watch your soul carefully.”

[13:16]  ² tn Heb “street.”

[13:16]  ³ 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”).

[29:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

[29:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

[29:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

[29:20]  ⁷ tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

[29:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

[31:14]  ⁹ tc The LXX reads “by the door of the tent” in line with v. 10 but also, perhaps, as a reflection of its tendency to avoid over-familiarity with Yahweh and his transcendence.

[31:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “tent of assembly” (מוֹעֵד אֹהֶל, ’ohel mo’ed); this is not always the same as the tabernacle, which is usually called מִשְׁכָּן (mishkan, “dwelling-place”), a reference to its being invested with God’s presence. The “tent of meeting” was erected earlier than the tabernacle and was the place where Yahweh occasionally appeared, especially to Moses (cf. Exod 18:7-16; 33:7-11; Num 11:16, 24, 26; 12:4).

[31:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I will command him.”