Ulangan 2:4

2:4 Instruct ¹  these people as follows: ‘You are about to cross the border of your relatives ²  the descendants of Esau, ³  who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid of you, so watch yourselves carefully.

Ulangan 19:2

19:2 you must set apart for yourselves three cities ⁴  in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.

Ulangan 23:24-25

23:24 When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please, ⁵  but you must not take away any in a container. ⁶  23:25 When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, ⁷  but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor’s ripe grain.

Ulangan 31:3

31:3 As for the Lord your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the Lord has said.

Ulangan 32:25

32:25 The sword will make people childless outside,

and terror will do so inside;

they will destroy ⁸  both the young man and the virgin,

the infant and the gray-haired man.

Ulangan 32:41

32:41 I will sharpen my lightning-like sword,

and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; ⁹ 

I will execute vengeance on my foes,

and repay those who hate me! ¹⁰ 

Ulangan 34:9

The Epitaph of Moses

34:9 Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had placed his hands on him; ¹¹  and the Israelites listened to him and did just what the Lord had commanded Moses.

[2:4]  ¹ tn Heb “command” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “charge the people as follows.”

[2:4]  ² tn Heb “brothers”; NAB “your kinsmen.”

[2:4]  ³ sn The descendants of Esau (Heb “sons of Esau”; the phrase also occurs in 2:8, 12, 22, 29). These are the inhabitants of the land otherwise known as Edom, south and east of the Dead Sea. Jacob’s brother Esau had settled there after his bitter strife with Jacob (Gen 36:1-8). “Edom” means “reddish,” probably because of the red sandstone of the region, but also by popular etymology because Esau, at birth, was reddish (Gen 25:25).

[19:2]  ⁴ sn These three cities, later designated by Joshua, were Kedesh of Galilee, Shechem, and Hebron (Josh 20:7-9).

[23:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “grapes according to your appetite, your fullness.”

[23:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “in your container”; NAB, NIV “your basket.”

[23:25]  ⁷ sn For the continuation of these practices into NT times see Matt 12:1-8; Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5.

[32:25]  ⁸ tn A verb is omitted here in the Hebrew text; for purposes of English style one suitable to the context is supplied.

[32:41]  ⁹ tn Heb “judgment.” This is a metonymy, a figure of speech in which the effect (judgment) is employed as an instrument (sword, spear, or the like), the means, by which it is brought about.

[32:41]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term שָׂנֵא (sane’, “hate”) in this covenant context speaks of those who reject Yahweh’s covenant overtures, that is, who disobey its stipulations (see note on the word “rejecting” in Deut 5:9; also see Deut 7:10; 2 Chr 19:2; Ps 81:15; 139:20-21).

[34:9]  ¹¹ sn See Num 27:18.