Ulangan 1:15

1:15 So I chose ¹  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 8:15

8:15 and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents ²  and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow ³  from a flint rock and

Ulangan 9:4

9:4 Do not think to yourself after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, “Because of my own righteousness the Lord has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

Ulangan 11:4

11:4 or what he did to the army of Egypt, including their horses and chariots, when he made the waters of the Red Sea ⁴  overwhelm them while they were pursuing you and he ⁵  annihilated them. ⁶ 

Ulangan 12:31

12:31 You must not worship the Lord your God the way they do! ⁷  For everything that is abhorrent ⁸  to him, ⁹  everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!

Ulangan 15:9

15:9 Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude ¹⁰  be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite ¹¹  and you do not lend ¹²  him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you and you will be regarded as having sinned. ¹³ 

Ulangan 17:8

Appeal to a Higher Court

17:8 If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, ¹⁴  legal claim, ¹⁵  or assault ¹⁶  – matters of controversy in your villages ¹⁷  – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. ¹⁸ 

Ulangan 21:16

21:16 In the day he divides his inheritance ¹⁹  he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other ²⁰  wife’s son who is actually the firstborn.

Ulangan 21:23

21:23 his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury ²¹  him that same day, for the one who is left exposed ²²  on a tree is cursed by God. ²³  You must not defile your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Ulangan 22:19

22:19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ²⁴  ruined the reputation ²⁵  of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Ulangan 26:12

Presentation of the Third-year Tithe

26:12 When you finish tithing all ²⁶  your income in the third year (the year of tithing), you must give it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows ²⁷  so that they may eat to their satisfaction in your villages. ²⁸ 

Ulangan 26:15

26:15 Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors – a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Ulangan 28:15

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

28:15 “But if you ignore ²⁹  the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: ³⁰ 

Ulangan 31:29

31:29 For I know that after I die you will totally ³¹  corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly ³²  before the Lord, inciting him to anger because of your actions.” ³³ 

Ulangan 33:17

33:17 May the firstborn of his bull bring him honor,

and may his horns be those of a wild ox;

with them may he gore all peoples,

all the far reaches of the earth.

They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, ³⁴ 

and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

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

[8:15]  ² 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]  ³ 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.

[11:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “Reed Sea.” “Reed Sea” (or “Sea of Reeds”) is a more accurate rendering of the Hebrew expression יָם סוּף (yam suf), traditionally translated “Red Sea.” See note on the term “Red Sea” in Exod 13:18.

[11:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[11:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the Lord destroyed them to this day” (cf. NRSV); NLT “he has kept them devastated to this very day.” The translation uses the verb “annihilated” to indicate the permanency of the action.

[12:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “you must not do thus to/for the Lord your God.”

[12:31]  ⁸ tn See note on this term at Deut 7:25.

[12:31]  ⁹ tn Heb “every abomination of the Lord.” See note on the word “his” in v. 27.

[15:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “your eye.”

[15:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your needy brother.”

[15:9]  ¹² tn Heb “give” (likewise in v. 10).

[15:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “it will be a sin to you.”

[17:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “between blood and blood.”

[17:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “between claim and claim.”

[17:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “between blow and blow.”

[17:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:8]  ¹⁸ tc Several Greek recensions add “to place his name there,” thus completing the usual formula to describe the central sanctuary (cf. Deut 12:5, 11, 14, 18; 16:6). However, the context suggests that the local Levitical towns, and not the central sanctuary, are in mind.

[21:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “when he causes his sons to inherit what is his.”

[21:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the hated.”

[21:23]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates by “make certain.”

[21:23]  ²² tn Heb “hung,” but this could convey the wrong image in English (hanging with a rope as a means of execution). Cf. NCV “anyone whose body is displayed on a tree.”

[21:23]  ²³ sn The idea behind the phrase cursed by God seems to be not that the person was impaled because he was cursed but that to leave him exposed there was to invite the curse of God upon the whole land. Why this would be so is not clear, though the rabbinic idea that even a criminal is created in the image of God may give some clue (thus J. H. Tigay, Deuteronomy [JPSTC], 198). Paul cites this text (see Gal 3:13) to make the point that Christ, suspended from a cross, thereby took upon himself the curse associated with such a display of divine wrath and judgment (T. George, Galatians [NAC], 238-39).

[22:19]  ²⁴ tn Heb “for he”; the referent (the man who made the accusation) has been specified in the translation to avoid confusion with the young woman’s father, the last-mentioned male.

[22:19]  ²⁵ tn Heb “brought forth a bad name.”

[26:12]  ²⁶ tn Heb includes “the tithes of.” This has not been included in the translation to avoid redundancy.

[26:12]  ²⁷ tn The terms “Levite, resident foreigner, orphan, and widow” are collective singulars in the Hebrew text (also in v. 13).

[26:12]  ²⁸ tn Heb “gates.”

[28:15]  ²⁹ tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”

[28:15]  ³⁰ tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”

[31:29]  ³¹ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “totally.”

[31:29]  ³² tn Heb “do the evil.”

[31:29]  ³³ tn Heb “the work of your hands.”

[33:17]  ³⁴ sn Ephraim and Manasseh were the sons of Joseph who became founders of the two tribes into which Joseph’s descendants were split (Gen 48:19-20). Jacob’s blessing granted favored status to Ephraim; this is probably why Ephraim is viewed here as more numerous than Manasseh.