Ulangan 8:8

8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

Ulangan 13:13

13:13 some evil people ¹  have departed from among you to entice the inhabitants of their cities, ²  saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods” (whom you have not known before). ³ 

Ulangan 28:38

The Curse of Reversed Status

28:38 “You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

Ulangan 30:11

Exhortation to Covenant Obedience

30:11 “This commandment I am giving ⁴  you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.

[13:13]  ¹ tn Heb “men, sons of Belial.” The Hebrew term בְּלִיַּעַל (bÿliyya’al) has the idea of worthlessness, without morals or scruples (HALOT 133-34 s.v.). Cf. NAB, NRSV “scoundrels”; TEV, CEV “worthless people”; NLT “worthless rabble.”

[13:13]  ² tc The LXX and Tg read “your” for the MT’s “their.”

[13:13]  ³ tn The translation understands the relative clause as a statement by Moses, not as part of the quotation from the evildoers. See also v. 2.

[30:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you.”