Ulangan 4:14

4:14 Moreover, at that same time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess. ¹ 

Ulangan 6:7

6:7 and you must teach ²  them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, ³  as you lie down, and as you get up.

Ulangan 6:21

6:21 you must say to them, ⁴  “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way. ⁵ 

Ulangan 10:2

10:2 I will write on the tablets the same words ⁶  that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

Ulangan 11:10

11:10 For the land where you are headed ⁷  is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand ⁸  like a vegetable garden.

Ulangan 11:29

11:29 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are to possess, you must pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. ⁹ 

Ulangan 12:5

12:5 But you must seek only the place he ¹⁰  chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, ¹¹  and you must go there.

Ulangan 15:17

15:17 you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. ¹²  Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well).

Ulangan 16:2

16:2 You must sacrifice the Passover animal ¹³  (from the flock or the herd) to the Lord your God in the place where he ¹⁴  chooses to locate his name.

Ulangan 16:6

16:6 but you must sacrifice it ¹⁵  in the evening in ¹⁶  the place where he ¹⁷  chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

Ulangan 16:10

16:10 Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks ¹⁸  before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering ¹⁹  that you will bring, in proportion to how he ²⁰  has blessed you.

Ulangan 17:4

17:4 When it is reported to you and you hear about it, you must investigate carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing ²¹  is being done in Israel,

Ulangan 17:6

17:6 At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

Ulangan 17:11

17:11 You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you.

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 ²²  heart as fearful ²³  as his own.”

Ulangan 21:13

21:13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, ²⁴  and stay ²⁵  in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations ²⁶  with her and become her husband and she your wife.

Ulangan 21:20

21:20 They must declare to the elders ²⁷  of his city, “Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say – he is a glutton and drunkard.”

Ulangan 22:3

22:3 You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor ²⁸  has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved. ²⁹ 

Ulangan 23:10

23:10 If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, ³⁰  he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

Ulangan 24:15-16

24:15 You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

24:16 Fathers must not be put to death for what their children ³¹  do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

Ulangan 26:10

26:10 So now, look! I have brought the first of the ground’s produce that you, Lord, have given me.” Then you must set it down before the Lord your God and worship before him. ³² 

Ulangan 27:2

27:2 When you cross the Jordan River ³³  to the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must erect great stones and cover ³⁴  them with plaster.

Ulangan 29:29

29:29 Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants ³⁵  forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.

[4:14]  ¹ tn Heb “to which you are crossing over to possess it.”

[6:7]  ² tn Heb “repeat” (so NLT). If from the root I שָׁנַן (shanan), the verb means essentially to “engrave,” that is, “to teach incisively” (Piel); note NAB “Drill them into your children.” Cf. BDB 1041-42 s.v.

[6:7]  ³ tn Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”

[6:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “to your son.”

[6:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “by a strong hand.” The image is that of a warrior who, with weapon in hand, overcomes his enemies. The Lord is commonly depicted as a divine warrior in the Book of Deuteronomy (cf. 5:15; 7:8; 9:26; 26:8).

[10:2]  ⁶ sn The same words. The care with which the replacement copy must be made underscores the importance of verbal precision in relaying the Lord’s commandments.

[11:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “you are going there to possess it”; NASB “into which you are about to cross to possess it”; NRSV “that you are crossing over to occupy.”

[11:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “with your foot” (so NASB, NLT). There is a two-fold significance to this phrase. First, Egypt had no rain so water supply depended on human efforts at irrigation. Second, the Nile was the source of irrigation waters but those waters sometimes had to be pumped into fields and gardens by foot-power, perhaps the kind of machinery (Arabic shaduf) still used by Egyptian farmers (see C. Aldred, The Egyptians, 181). Nevertheless, the translation uses “by hand,” since that expression is the more common English idiom for an activity performed by manual labor.

[11:29]  ⁹ sn Mount Gerizim…Mount Ebal. These two mountains are near the ancient site of Shechem and the modern city of Nablus. The valley between them is like a great amphitheater with the mountain slopes as seating sections. The place was sacred because it was there that Abraham pitched his camp and built his first altar after coming to Canaan (Gen 12:6). Jacob also settled at Shechem for a time and dug a well from which Jesus once requested a drink of water (Gen 33:18-20; John 4:5-7). When Joshua and the Israelites finally brought Canaan under control they assembled at Shechem as Moses commanded and undertook a ritual of covenant reaffirmation (Josh 8:30-35; 24:1, 25). Half the tribes stood on Mt. Gerizim and half on Mt. Ebal and in antiphonal chorus pledged their loyalty to the Lord before Joshua and the Levites who stood in the valley below (Josh 8:33; cf. Deut 27:11-13).

[12:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[12:5]  ¹¹ tc Some scholars, on the basis of v. 11, emend the MT reading שִׁכְנוֹ (shikhno, “his residence”) to the infinitive construct לְשָׁכֵן (lÿshakhen, “to make [his name] to dwell”), perhaps with the 3rd person masculine singular sf לְשַׁכְּנוֹ (lÿshakÿno, “to cause it to dwell”). Though the presupposed nounשֵׁכֶן (shekhen) is nowhere else attested, the parallel here with שַׁמָּה (shammah, “there”) favors retaining the MT as it stands.

[15:17]  ¹² sn When the bondslave’s ear was drilled through to the door, the door in question was that of the master’s house. In effect, the bondslave is declaring his undying and lifelong loyalty to his creditor. The scar (or even hole) in the earlobe would testify to the community that the slave had surrendered independence and personal rights. This may be what Paul had in mind when he said “I bear on my body the marks of Jesus” (Gal 6:17).

[16:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “sacrifice the Passover” (so NASB). The word “animal” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[16:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in the previous verse.

[16:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the Passover.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.

[16:6]  ¹⁶ tc The MT reading אֶל (’el, “unto”) before “the place” should, following Smr, Syriac, Targums, and Vulgate, be omitted in favor of ב (bet; בַּמָּקוֹם, bammaqom), “in the place.”

[16:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[16:10]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew phrase חַג שָׁבֻעוֹת (khag shavu’ot) is otherwise known in the OT (Exod 23:16) as קָצִיר (qatsir, “harvest”) and in the NT as πεντηχοστή (penthcosth, “Pentecost”).

[16:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the sufficiency of the offering of your hand.”

[16:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[17:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “an abomination” (תּוֹעֵבָה); see note on the word “offensive” in v. 1.

[20:8]  ²² tn Heb “his brother’s.”

[20:8]  ²³ tn Heb “melted.”

[21:13]  ²⁴ tn Heb “she is to…remove the clothing of her captivity” (cf. NASB); NRSV “discard her captive’s garb.”

[21:13]  ²⁵ tn Heb “sit”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “remain.”

[21:13]  ²⁶ tn Heb “go unto,” a common Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations.

[21:20]  ²⁷ tc The LXX and Smr read “to the men,” probably to conform to this phrase in v. 21. However, since judicial cases were the responsibility of the elders in such instances (cf. Deut 19:12; 21:3, 6; 25:7-8) the reading of the MT is likely original and correct here.

[22:3]  ²⁸ tn Heb “your brother” (also in v. 4).

[22:3]  ²⁹ tn Heb “you must not hide yourself.”

[23:10]  ³⁰ tn Heb “nocturnal happening.” The Hebrew term קָרֶה (qareh) merely means “to happen” so the phrase here is euphemistic (a “night happening”) for some kind of bodily emission such as excrement or semen. Such otherwise normal physical functions rendered one ritually unclean whether accidental or not. See Lev 15:16-18; 22:4.

[24:16]  ³¹ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB; twice in this verse). Many English versions, including the KJV, read “children” here.

[26:10]  ³² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 26:2.

[27:2]  ³³ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[27:2]  ³⁴ tn Heb “plaster” (so KJV, ASV; likewise in v. 4). In the translation “cover” has been used for stylistic reasons.

[29:29]  ³⁵ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NIV, NRSV “children.”