Ulangan 5:3

5:3 He ¹  did not make this covenant with our ancestors ²  but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

Ulangan 12:23

12:23 However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself ³  – you must not eat the life with the meat!

Ulangan 28:21

28:21 The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases ⁴  until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

Ulangan 34:7

34:7 Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull ⁵  nor had his vitality ⁶  departed.

¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

² tn Heb “fathers.”

³ sn The blood is life itself. This is a figure of speech (metonymy) in which the cause or means (the blood) stands for the result or effect (life). That is, life depends upon the existence and circulation of blood, a truth known empirically but not scientifically tested and proved until the 17th century a.d. (cf. Lev 17:11).

⁴ tn Heb “will cause pestilence to cling to you.”

⁵ tn Or “dimmed.” The term could refer to dull appearance or to dimness caused by some loss of visual acuity.

⁶ tn Heb “sap.” That is, he was still in possession of his faculties or liveliness.