Ulangan 1:21

1:21 Look, he ¹  has placed the land in front of you! ²  Go up, take possession of it, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”

Ulangan 1:24

1:24 They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, ³  which they scouted out.

Ulangan 9:13

9:13 Moreover, he said to me, “I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn ⁴  lot!

Ulangan 13:2

13:2 and the sign or wonder should come to pass concerning what he said to you, namely, “Let us follow other gods” – gods whom you have not previously known – “and let us serve them.”

Ulangan 14:22

The Offering of Tribute

14:22 You must be certain to tithe ⁵  all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.

Ulangan 18:15

18:15 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you – from your fellow Israelites; ⁶  you must listen to him.

Ulangan 30:11

Exhortation to Covenant Obedience

30:11 “This commandment I am giving ⁷  you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.

Ulangan 32:32

32:32 For their vine is from the stock ⁸  of Sodom,

and from the fields of Gomorrah. ⁹ 

Their grapes contain venom,

their clusters of grapes are bitter.

Ulangan 32:40

32:40 For I raise up my hand to heaven,

and say, ‘As surely as I live forever,

Ulangan 33:26

General Praise and Blessing

33:26 There is no one like God, O Jeshurun, ¹⁰ 

who rides through the sky ¹¹  to help you,

on the clouds in majesty.

[1:21]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun (“he”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid repetition.

[1:21]  ² tn Or “has given you the land” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[1:24]  ³ tn Or “the Wadi Eshcol” (so NAB).

[1:24]  sn The Eshcol Valley is a verdant valley near Hebron, still famous for its viticulture (cf. Num 13:22-23). The Hebrew name “Eshcol” means “trestle,” that is, the frame on which grape vines grow.

[9:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “stiff-necked.” See note on the word “stubborn” in 9:6.

[14:22]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, indicated in the translation by the words “be certain.”

[18:15]  ⁶ tc The MT expands here on the usual formula by adding “from among you” (cf. Deut 17:15; 18:18; Smr; a number of Greek texts). The expansion seems to be for the purpose of emphasis, i.e., the prophet to come must be not just from Israel but an Israelite by blood.

[18:15]  tn “from your brothers,” but not referring to actual siblings. Cf. NAB “from among your own kinsmen”; NASB “from your countrymen”; NRSV “from among your own people.” A similar phrase occurs in v. 17.

[30:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you.”

[32:32]  ⁸ tn Heb “vine.”

[32:32]  ⁹ sn Sodom…Gomorrah. The term “vine” is a reference to the pagan deities which, the passage says, find their ultimate source in Sodom and Gomorrah, that is, in the soil of perversion exemplified by these places (cf. Gen 18:20; 19:4-28; Isa 1:10; 3:9; Jer 23:14; Lam 4:6; Ezek 16:44-52; Matt 10:15; 11:23-24).

[33:26]  ¹⁰ sn Jeshurun is a term of affection referring to Israel, derived from the Hebrew verb יָשַׁר (yashar, “be upright”). See note on the term in Deut 32:15.

[33:26]  ¹¹ tn Or “(who) rides (on) the heavens” (cf. NIV, NRSV, NLT). This title depicts Israel’s God as sovereign over the elements of the storm (cf. Ps 68:33). The use of the phrase here may be polemical; Moses may be asserting that Israel’s God, not Baal (called the “rider of the clouds” in the Ugaritic myths), is the true divine king (cf. v. 5) who controls the elements of the storm, grants agricultural prosperity, and delivers his people from their enemies. See R. B. Chisholm, Jr., “The Polemic against Baalism in Israel’s Early History and Literature,” BSac 151 (1994): 275.