Ulangan 4:9

Reminder of the Horeb Covenant

4:9 Again, however, pay very careful attention, ¹  lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

Ulangan 5:22

The Narrative of the Sinai Revelation and Israel’s Response

5:22 The Lord said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. ²  Then he inscribed the words ³  on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Ulangan 14:7

14:7 However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. ⁴  (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

Ulangan 14:21

14:21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages ⁵  and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. ⁶ 

Ulangan 18:22

18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my ⁷  name and the prediction ⁸  is not fulfilled, ⁹  then I have ¹⁰  not spoken it; ¹¹  the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”

Ulangan 24:5

24:5 When a man is newly married, he need not go into ¹²  the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to ¹³  the wife he has married.

Ulangan 28:29

28:29 You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; ¹⁴  you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.

[4:9]  ¹ tn Heb “watch yourself and watch your soul carefully.”

[5:22]  ² tn Heb “and he added no more” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NLT “This was all he said at that time.”

[5:22]  ³ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the words spoken by the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:7]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term שָׁפָן (shafan) may refer to the “coney” (cf. KJV, NIV) or hyrax (“rock badger,” cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).

[14:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “gates” (also in vv. 27, 28, 29).

[14:21]  ⁶ sn Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. This strange prohibition – one whose rationale is unclear but probably related to pagan ritual – may seem out of place here but actually is not for the following reasons: (1) the passage as a whole opens with a prohibition against heathen mourning rites (i.e., death, vv. 1-2) and closes with what appear to be birth and infancy rites. (2) In the other two places where the stipulation occurs (Exod 23:19 and Exod 34:26) it similarly concludes major sections. (3) Whatever the practice signified it clearly was abhorrent to the Lord and fittingly concludes the topic of various breaches of purity and holiness as represented by the ingestion of unclean animals (vv. 3-21). See C. M. Carmichael, “On Separating Life and Death: An Explanation of Some Biblical Laws,” HTR 69 (1976): 1-7; J. Milgrom, “You Shall Not Boil a Kid In Its Mother’s Milk,” BRev 1 (1985): 48-55; R. J. Ratner and B. Zuckerman, “In Rereading the ‘Kid in Milk’ Inscriptions,” BRev 1 (1985): 56-58; and M. Haran, “Seething a Kid in its Mother’s Milk,” JJS 30 (1979): 23-35.

[18:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Lord’s.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

[18:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”

[18:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”

[18:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord has.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

[18:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”

[24:5]  ¹² tn Heb “go out with.”

[24:5]  ¹³ tc For the MT’s reading Piel שִׂמַּח (simmakh, “bring joy to”), the Syriac and others read שָׂמַח (samakh, “enjoy”).

[28:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “you will not cause your ways to prosper.”