Ulangan 1:8

1:8 Look! I have already given the land to you. ¹  Go, occupy the territory that I, ²  the Lord, promised ³  to give to your ancestors ⁴  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.” ⁵ 

Ulangan 2:21-22

2:21 They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites ⁶  in advance of the Ammonites, ⁷  so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place. 2:22 This is exactly what he did for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when he destroyed the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their area to this very day.

Ulangan 2:24

2:24 Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, ⁸  and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

Ulangan 2:28

2:28 Sell me food for cash ⁹  so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. ¹⁰  Just allow me to go through on foot,

Ulangan 2:30

2:30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our ¹¹  God had made him obstinate ¹²  and stubborn ¹³  so that he might deliver him over to you ¹⁴  this very day.

Ulangan 3:6

3:6 We put all of these under divine judgment ¹⁵  just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, ¹⁶  including women and children.

Ulangan 3:13

3:13 The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. ¹⁷  (All the region of Argob, ¹⁸  that is, all Bashan, is called the land of Rephaim.

Ulangan 3:28

3:28 Commission ¹⁹  Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, because he will lead these people over and will enable them to inherit the land you will see.”

Ulangan 4:5

4:5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in ²⁰  the land you are about to enter and possess.

Ulangan 5:29

5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey ²¹  all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

Ulangan 7:10

7:10 but who pays back those who hate ²²  him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore ²³  those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve!

Ulangan 8:7

8:7 For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, ²⁴  springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

Ulangan 9:19

9:19 For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger ²⁵  that threatened to destroy you. But he ²⁶  listened to me this time as well.

Ulangan 10:11

10:11 Then he ²⁷  said to me, “Get up, set out leading ²⁸  the people so they may go and possess ²⁹  the land I promised to give to their ancestors.” ³⁰ 

Ulangan 11:2

11:2 Bear in mind today that I am not speaking ³¹  to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments ³²  of the Lord your God, which revealed ³³  his greatness, strength, and power. ³⁴ 

Ulangan 11:19

11:19 Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, ³⁵  as you lie down, and as you get up.

Ulangan 11:30

11:30 Are they not across the Jordan River, ³⁶  toward the west, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal ³⁷  near the oak ³⁸  of Moreh?

Ulangan 12:14

12:14 for you may do so ³⁹  only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas – there you may do everything I am commanding you. ⁴⁰ 

Ulangan 14:8

14:8 Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, ⁴¹  it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

Ulangan 15:12

Release of Debt Slaves

15:12 If your fellow Hebrew ⁴²  – whether male or female ⁴³  – is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant ⁴⁴  go free. ⁴⁵ 

Ulangan 18:9-10

Provision for Prophetism

18:9 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations. 18:10 There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, ⁴⁶  anyone who practices divination, ⁴⁷  an omen reader, ⁴⁸  a soothsayer, ⁴⁹  a sorcerer, ⁵⁰ 

Ulangan 18:20

18:20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized ⁵¹  him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

Ulangan 19:1

Laws Concerning Manslaughter

19:1 When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he ⁵²  is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

Ulangan 19:14

Laws Concerning Witnesses

19:14 You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, ⁵³  which will have been defined ⁵⁴  in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you. ⁵⁵ 

Ulangan 22:4

22:4 When you see ⁵⁶  your neighbor’s donkey or ox fallen along the road, do not ignore it; ⁵⁷  instead, you must be sure ⁵⁸  to help him get the animal on its feet again. ⁵⁹ 

Ulangan 24:15

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.

Ulangan 24:20

24:20 When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; ⁶⁰  the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

Ulangan 25:1

25:1 If controversy arises between people, ⁶¹  they should go to court for judgment. When the judges ⁶²  hear the case, they shall exonerate ⁶³  the innocent but condemn ⁶⁴  the guilty.

Ulangan 26:18

26:18 And today the Lord has declared you to be his special people (as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

Ulangan 27:2-3

27:2 When you cross the Jordan River ⁶⁵  to the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must erect great stones and cover ⁶⁶  them with plaster. 27:3 Then you must inscribe on them all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, ⁶⁷  said to you.

Ulangan 28:20

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you ⁶⁸  in everything you undertake ⁶⁹  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. ⁷⁰ 

Ulangan 28:47

The Curse of Military Siege

28:47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

Ulangan 28:51

28:51 They ⁷¹  will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, ⁷²  or lambs of your flocks ⁷³  until they have destroyed you.

Ulangan 28:53

28:53 You will then eat your own offspring, ⁷⁴  the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege ⁷⁵  by which your enemies will constrict you.

Ulangan 31:6

31:6 Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or tremble before them, for the Lord your God is the one who is going with you. He will not fail you or abandon you!”

Ulangan 31:8

31:8 The Lord is indeed going before you – he will be with you; he will not fail you or abandon you. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”

Ulangan 32:22

32:22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger,

and it burns to lowest Sheol; ⁷⁶ 

it consumes the earth and its produce,

and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

Ulangan 32:27

32:27 But I fear the reaction ⁷⁷  of their enemies,

for ⁷⁸  their adversaries would misunderstand

and say, “Our power is great, ⁷⁹ 

and the Lord has not done all this!”’

Ulangan 33:8

Blessing on Levi

33:8 Of Levi he said:

Your Thummim and Urim ⁸⁰  belong to your godly one, ⁸¹ 

whose authority you challenged at Massah, ⁸² 

and with whom you argued at the waters of Meribah. ⁸³ 

Ulangan 33:20

Blessing on Gad

33:20 Of Gad he said:

Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad.

Like a lioness he will dwell;

he will tear at an arm – indeed, a scalp. ⁸⁴ 

[1:8]  ¹ tn Heb “I have placed before you the land.”

[1:8]  ² tn Heb “the Lord.” Since the Lord is speaking, it is preferable for clarity to supply the first person pronoun in the translation.

[1:8]  ³ tn Heb “swore” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). This refers to God’s promise, made by solemn oath, to give the patriarchs the land.

[1:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 11, 21, 35).

[1:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “their seed after them.”

[2:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Rephaites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Ammonites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:24]  ⁸ sn Heshbon is the name of a prominent site (now Tell Hesba„n, about 7.5 mi [12 km] south southwest of Amman, Jordan). Sihon made it his capital after having driven Moab from the area and forced them south to the Arnon (Num 21:26-30). Heshbon is also mentioned in Deut 1:4.

[2:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “silver.”

[2:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and water for silver give to me so that I may drink.”

[2:30]  ¹¹ tc The translation follows the LXX in reading the first person pronoun. The MT, followed by many English versions, has a second person masculine singular pronoun, “your.”

[2:30]  ¹² tn Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”

[2:30]  ¹³ tn Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”

[2:30]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “into your hand.”

[3:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “we put them under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). See note at 2:34.

[3:6]  sn The divine curse. See note on this phrase in Deut 2:34.

[3:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “city of men.”

[3:13]  ¹⁷ sn Half the tribe of Manasseh. The tribe of Manasseh split into clans, with half opting to settle in Bashan and the other half in Canaan (cf. Num 32:39-42; Josh 17:1-13).

[3:13]  ¹⁸ sn Argob. See note on this term in v. 4.

[3:28]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “command”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “charge Joshua.”

[4:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).

[5:29]  ²¹ tn Heb “keep” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[7:10]  ²² tn For the term “hate” as synonymous with rejection or disobedience see note on the word “reject” in Deut 5:9 (cf. NRSV “reject”).

[7:10]  ²³ tn Heb “he will not hesitate concerning.”

[8:7]  ²⁴ tn Or “wadis.”

[9:19]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” Although many English versions translate as two terms, this construction is a hendiadys which serves to intensify the emotion (cf. NAB, TEV “fierce anger”).

[9:19]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

[10:11]  ²⁷ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

[10:11]  ²⁸ tn Heb “before” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, NRSV “at the head of.”

[10:11]  ²⁹ tn After the imperative these subordinated jussive forms (with prefixed vav) indicate purpose or result.

[10:11]  ³⁰ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 15, 22).

[11:2]  ³¹ tn Heb “that not.” The words “I am speaking” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[11:2]  ³² tn Heb “who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the Lord.” The collocation of the verbs “know” and “see” indicates that personal experience (knowing by seeing) is in view. The term translated “discipline” (KJV, ASV “chastisement”) may also be rendered “instruction,” but vv. 2b-6 indicate that the referent of the term is the various acts of divine judgment the Israelites had witnessed.

[11:2]  ³³ tn The words “which revealed” have been supplied in the translation to show the logical relationship between the terms that follow and the divine judgments. In the Hebrew text the former are in apposition to the latter.

[11:2]  ³⁴ tn Heb “his strong hand and his stretched-out arm.”

[11:19]  ³⁵ tn Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”

[11:30]  ³⁶ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[11:30]  ³⁷ sn Gilgal. From a Hebrew verb root גָלַל (galal, “to roll”) this place name means “circle” or “rolling,” a name given because God had “rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you” (Josh 5:9). It is perhaps to be identified with Khirbet el-Metjir, 1.2 mi (2 km) northeast of OT Jericho.

[11:30]  ³⁸ tc The MT plural “oaks” (אֵלוֹנֵי, ’eloney) should probably be altered (with many Greek texts) to the singular “oak” (אֵלוֹן, ’elon; cf. NRSV) in line with the only other occurrence of the phrase (Gen 12:6). The Syriac, Tg. Ps.-J. read mmrá, confusing this place with the “oaks of Mamre” near Hebron (Gen 13:18). Smr also appears to confuse “Moreh” with “Mamre” (reading mwr’, a combined form), adding the clarification mwl shkm (“near Shechem”) apparently to distinguish it from Mamre near Hebron.

[12:14]  ³⁹ tn Heb “offer burnt offerings.” The expression “do so” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[12:14]  ⁴⁰ sn This injunction to worship in a single and central sanctuary – one limited and appropriate to the thrice-annual festival celebrations (see Exod 23:14-17; 34:22-24; Lev 23:4-36; Deut 16:16-17) – marks a departure from previous times when worship was carried out at local shrines (cf. Gen 8:20; 12:7; 13:18; 22:9; 26:25; 35:1, 3, 7; Exod 17:15). Apart from the corporate worship of the whole theocratic community, however, worship at local altars would still be permitted as in the past (Deut 16:21; Judg 6:24-27; 13:19-20; 1 Sam 7:17; 10:5, 13; 2 Sam 24:18-25; 1 Kgs 18:30).

[14:8]  ⁴¹ tc The MT lacks (probably by haplography) the phrase וְשֹׁסַע שֶׁסַע פַּרְסָה (vÿshosa’ shesa’ parsah, “and is clovenfooted,” i.e., “has parted hooves”), a phrase found in the otherwise exact parallel in Lev 11:7. The LXX and Smr attest the longer reading here. The meaning is, however, clear without it.

[15:12]  ⁴² sn Elsewhere in the OT, the Israelites are called “Hebrews” (עִבְרִי, ’ivriy) by outsiders, rarely by themselves (cf. Gen 14:13; 39:14, 17; 41:12; Exod 1:15, 16, 19; 2:6, 7, 11, 13; 1 Sam 4:6; Jonah 1:9). Thus, here and in the parallel passage in Exod 21:2-6 the term עִבְרִי may designate non-Israelites, specifically a people well-known throughout the ancient Near East as ’apiru or habiru. They lived a rather vagabond lifestyle, frequently hiring themselves out as laborers or mercenary soldiers. While accounting nicely for the surprising use of the term here in an Israelite law code, the suggestion has against it the unlikelihood that a set of laws would address such a marginal people so specifically (as opposed to simply calling them aliens or the like). More likely עִבְרִי is chosen as a term to remind Israel that when they were “Hebrews,” that is, when they were in Egypt, they were slaves. Now that they are free they must not keep their fellow Israelites in economic bondage. See v. 15.

[15:12]  ⁴³ tn Heb “your brother, a Hebrew (male) or Hebrew (female).”

[15:12]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “him.” The singular pronoun occurs throughout the passage.

[15:12]  ⁴⁵ tn The Hebrew text includes “from you.”

[18:10]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “who passes his son or his daughter through the fire.” The expression “pass…through the fire” is probably a euphemism for human sacrifice (cf. NAB, NIV, TEV, NLT). See also Deut 12:31.

[18:10]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “a diviner of divination” (קֹסֵם קְסָמִים, qosem qÿsamim). This was a means employed to determine the future or the outcome of events by observation of various omens and signs (cf. Num 22:7; 23:23; Josh 13:22; 1 Sam 6:2; 15:23; 28:8; etc.). See M. Horsnell, NIDOTTE 3:945-51.

[18:10]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “one who causes to appear” (מְעוֹנֵן, mÿ’onen). Such a practitioner was thought to be able to conjure up spirits or apparitions (cf. Lev 19:26; Judg 9:37; 2 Kgs 21:6; Isa 2:6; 57:3; Jer 27:9; Mic 5:11).

[18:10]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “a seeker of omens” (מְנַחֵשׁ, mÿnakhesh). This is a subset of divination, one illustrated by the use of a “divining cup” in the story of Joseph (Gen 44:5).

[18:10]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “a doer of sorcery” (מְכַשֵּׁף, mikhashef). This has to do with magic or the casting of spells in order to manipulate the gods or the powers of nature (cf. Lev 19:26-31; 2 Kgs 17:15b-17; 21:1-7; Isa 57:3, 5; etc.). See M. Horsnell, NIDOTTE 2:735-38.

[18:20]  ⁵¹ tn Or “commanded” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[19:1]  ⁵² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[19:14]  ⁵³ tn Heb “border.” Cf. NRSV “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker.”

[19:14]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “which they set off from the beginning.”

[19:14]  ⁵⁵ tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.” This phrase has been left untranslated to avoid redundancy.

[22:4]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “you must not see.” See note at 22:1.

[22:4]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “and (must not) hide yourself from them.”

[22:4]  ⁵⁸ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “be sure.”

[22:4]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “help him to lift them up.” In keeping with English style the singular is used in the translation, and the referent (“the animal”) has been specified for clarity.

[24:20]  ⁶⁰ tn Heb “knock down after you.”

[25:1]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “men.”

[25:1]  ⁶² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the judges) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:1]  ⁶³ tn Heb “declare to be just”; KJV, NASB “justify the righteous”; NAB, NIV “acquitting the innocent.”

[25:1]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “declare to be evil”; NIV “condemning the guilty (+ party NAB).”

[27:2]  ⁶⁵ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[27:2]  ⁶⁶ tn Heb “plaster” (so KJV, ASV; likewise in v. 4). In the translation “cover” has been used for stylistic reasons.

[27:3]  ⁶⁷ tn Heb “fathers.”

[28:20]  ⁶⁸ tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

[28:20]  ⁶⁹ tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

[28:20]  ⁷⁰ tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.

[28:20]  tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”

[28:51]  ⁷¹ tn Heb “it” (so NRSV), a collective singular referring to the invading nation (several times in this verse and v. 52).

[28:51]  ⁷² tn Heb “increase of herds.”

[28:51]  ⁷³ tn Heb “growth of flocks.”

[28:53]  ⁷⁴ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”

[28:53]  ⁷⁵ tn Heb “siege and stress.”

[32:22]  ⁷⁶ tn Or “to the lowest depths of the earth”; cf. NAB “to the depths of the nether world”; NIV “to the realm of death below”; NLT “to the depths of the grave.”

[32:22]  sn Sheol refers here not to hell and hell-fire – a much later concept – but to the innermost parts of the earth, as low down as one could get. The parallel with “the foundations of the mountains” makes this clear (cf. Pss 9:17; 16:10; 139:8; Isa 14:9, 15; Amos 9:2).

[32:27]  ⁷⁷ tn Heb “anger.”

[32:27]  ⁷⁸ tn Heb “lest.”

[32:27]  ⁷⁹ tn Heb “Our hand is high.” Cf. NAB “Our own hand won the victory.”

[33:8]  ⁸⁰ sn Thummim and Urim. These terms, whose meaning is uncertain, refer to sacred stones carried in a pouch on the breastplate of the high priest and examined on occasion as a means of ascertaining God’s will or direction. See Exod 28:30; Lev 8:8; Num 27:21; 1 Sam 28:6. See also C. Van Dam, NIDOTTE 1:329-31.

[33:8]  ⁸¹ tn Heb “godly man.” The reference is probably to Moses as representative of the whole tribe of Levi.

[33:8]  ⁸² sn Massah means “testing” in Hebrew; the name is a wordplay on what took place there. Cf. Exod 17:7; Deut 6:16; 9:22; Ps 95:8-9.

[33:8]  ⁸³ sn Meribah means “contention, argument” in Hebrew; this is another wordplay on the incident that took place there. Cf. Num 20:13, 24; Ps 106:32.

[33:20]  ⁸⁴ tn Heb “forehead,” picturing Gad attacking prey.