Ulangan 13:3

13:3 You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, ¹  for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him ²  with all your mind and being. ³ 

Ulangan 20:20

20:20 However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, ⁴  and you may use it to build siege works ⁵  against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.

Ulangan 31:13

31:13 Then their children, who have not known this law, ⁶  will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

[13:3]  ¹ tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

[13:3]  ² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[13:3]  ³ tn Heb “all your heart and soul” (so NRSV, CEV, NLT); or “heart and being” (NCV “your whole being”). See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[20:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “however, a tree which you know is not a tree for food you may destroy and cut down.”

[20:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “[an] enclosure.” The term מָצוֹר (matsor) may refer to encircling ditches or to surrounding stagings. See R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 238.

[31:13]  ⁶ tn The phrase “this law” is not in the Hebrew text, but English style requires an object for the verb here. Other translations also supply the object which is otherwise implicit (cf. NIV “who do not know this law”; TEV “who have never heard the Law of the Lord your God”).