Ulangan 1:7

1:7 Get up now, ¹  resume your journey, heading for ²  the Amorite hill country, to all its areas ³  including the arid country, ⁴  the highlands, the Shephelah, ⁵  the Negev, ⁶  and the coastal plain – all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.

Ulangan 2:12

2:12 Previously the Horites ⁷  lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the Lord gave them.) ⁸ 

Ulangan 5:14

5:14 but the seventh day is the Sabbath ⁹  of the Lord your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, ¹⁰  so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.

Ulangan 11:6

11:6 or what he did to Dathan and Abiram, ¹¹  sons of Eliab the Reubenite, ¹²  when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp ¹³  and swallowed them, their families, ¹⁴  their tents, and all the property they brought with them. ¹⁵ 

Ulangan 12:11

12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing ¹⁶  everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, ¹⁷  and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. ¹⁸ 

Ulangan 13:4

13:4 You must follow the Lord your God and revere only him; and you must observe his commandments, obey him, serve him, and remain loyal to him.

Ulangan 17:8

Appeal to a Higher Court

17:8 If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, ¹⁹  legal claim, ²⁰  or assault ²¹  – matters of controversy in your villages ²²  – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. ²³ 

Ulangan 26:19

26:19 Then ²⁴  he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. ²⁵  You will ²⁶  be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he has said.

Ulangan 28:1

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ²⁷  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ²⁸  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

Ulangan 28:12

28:12 The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; ²⁹  you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.

Ulangan 28:36

28:36 The Lord will force you and your king ³⁰  whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

Ulangan 28:67

28:67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.

Ulangan 29:23

29:23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger. ³¹ 

[1:7]  ¹ tn Heb “turn”; NAB “Leave here”; NIV, TEV “Break camp.”

[1:7]  ² tn Heb “go (to).”

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “its dwelling places.”

[1:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Arabah” (so ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “lowlands” (so TEV) or “steppes”; NIV, CEV, NLT “the western foothills.”

[1:7]  sn The Shephelah is the geographical region between the Mediterranean coastal plain and the Judean hill country.

[1:7]  ⁶ sn The Hebrew term Negev means literally “desert” or “south” (so KJV, ASV). It refers to the area south of Beer Sheba and generally west of the Arabah Valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.

[2:12]  ⁷ sn Horites. Most likely these are the same as the well-known people of ancient Near Eastern texts described as Hurrians. They were geographically widespread and probably non-Semitic. Genesis speaks of them as the indigenous peoples of Edom that Esau expelled (Gen 36:8-19, 31-43) and also as among those who confronted the kings of the east (Gen 14:6).

[2:12]  ⁸ tn Most modern English versions, beginning with the ASV (1901), regard vv. 10-12 as parenthetical to the narrative.

[5:14]  ⁹ tn There is some degree of paronomasia (wordplay) here: “the seventh (הַשְּׁבִיעִי, hashÿvi’i) day is the Sabbath (שַׁבָּת, shabbat).” Otherwise, the words have nothing in common, since “Sabbath” is derived from the verb שָׁבַת (shavat, “to cease”).

[5:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in your gates”; NRSV, CEV “in your towns”; TEV “in your country.”

[11:6]  ¹¹ sn Dathan and Abiram. These two (along with others) had challenged Moses’ leadership in the desert with the result that the earth beneath them opened up and they and their families disappeared (Num 16:1-3, 31-35).

[11:6]  ¹² tn Or “the descendant of Reuben”; Heb “son of Reuben.”

[11:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “in the midst of all Israel” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV); NASB “among all Israel.” In the Hebrew text these words appear at the end of the verse, but they are logically connected with the verbs. To make this clear the translation places the phrase after the first verb.

[11:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “their houses,” referring to all who lived in their household. Cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “households.”

[11:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and all the substance which was at their feet.”

[12:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and it will be (to) the place where the Lord your God chooses to cause his name to dwell you will bring.”

[12:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”

[12:11]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[17:8]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “between blood and blood.”

[17:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “between claim and claim.”

[17:8]  ²¹ tn Heb “between blow and blow.”

[17:8]  ²² tn Heb “gates.”

[17:8]  ²³ 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.

[26:19]  ²⁴ tn Heb “so that.” Verses 18-19 are one sentence in the Hebrew text, but the translation divides it into three sentences for stylistic reasons. The first clause in verse 19 gives a result of the preceding clause. When Israel keeps God’s law, God will bless them with fame and honor (cf. NAB “he will then raise you high in praise and renown and glory”; NLT “And if you do, he will make you greater than any other nation”).

[26:19]  ²⁵ tn Heb “for praise and for a name and for glory.”

[26:19]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and to be.” A new sentence was started here for stylistic reasons.

[28:1]  ²⁷ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

[28:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

[28:12]  ²⁹ tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”

[28:36]  ³⁰ tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”

[29:23]  ³¹ tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” This construction is a hendiadys intended to intensify the emotion.