Deuteronomy 1:30

1:30 The Lord your God is about to go ¹  ahead of you; he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt ² 

Deuteronomy 5:33

5:33 Walk just as he ³  has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long ⁴  in the land you are going to possess.

Deuteronomy 8:15

8:15 and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents ⁵  and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow ⁶  from a flint rock and

Deuteronomy 10:11

10:11 Then he ⁷  said to me, “Get up, set out leading ⁸  the people so they may go and possess ⁹  the land I promised to give to their ancestors.” ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 13:2

13:2 and the sign or wonder should come to pass concerning what he said to you, namely, “Let us follow other gods” – gods whom you have not previously known – “and let us serve them.”

Deuteronomy 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.

Deuteronomy 13:13

13:13 some evil people ¹¹  have departed from among you to entice the inhabitants of their cities, ¹²  saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods” (whom you have not known before). ¹³ 

Deuteronomy 14:25

14:25 you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, ¹⁴  and travel to the place the Lord your God chooses for himself.

Deuteronomy 17:3

17:3 by serving other gods and worshiping them – the sun, ¹⁵  moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship. ¹⁶ 

Deuteronomy 20:6-7

20:6 Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it. 20:7 Or who among you ¹⁷  has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

Deuteronomy 26:17

26:17 Today you have declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

Deuteronomy 28:9

28:9 The Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments ¹⁸  and obey him. ¹⁹ 

Deuteronomy 28:14

28:14 But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving ²⁰  you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship ²¹  them.

Deuteronomy 29:5

29:5 I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out ²²  nor have your sandals ²³  deteriorated.

Deuteronomy 29:26

29:26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. ²⁴ 

Deuteronomy 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!”

Deuteronomy 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!”

¹ tn The Hebrew participle indicates imminent future action here, though some English versions treat it as a predictive future (“will go ahead of you,” NCV; cf. also TEV, CEV).

² tn Heb “according to all which he did for you in Egypt before your eyes.”

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

⁴ tn Heb “may prolong your days”; NAB “may have long life”; TEV “will continue to live.”

⁵ tn Heb “flaming serpents”; KJV, NASB “fiery serpents”; NAB “saraph serpents.” This figure of speech (metonymy) probably describes the venomous and painful results of snakebite. The feeling from such an experience would be like a burning fire (שָׂרָף, saraf).

⁶ tn Heb “the one who brought out for you water.” In the Hebrew text this continues the preceding sentence, but the translation begins a new sentence here for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

⁸ tn Heb “before” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, NRSV “at the head of.”

⁹ tn After the imperative these subordinated jussive forms (with prefixed vav) indicate purpose or result.

¹⁰ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 15, 22).

⁹ tn Heb “men, sons of Belial.” The Hebrew term בְּלִיַּעַל (bÿliyya’al) has the idea of worthlessness, without morals or scruples (HALOT 133-34 s.v.). Cf. NAB, NRSV “scoundrels”; TEV, CEV “worthless people”; NLT “worthless rabble.”

¹⁰ tc The LXX and Tg read “your” for the MT’s “their.”

¹¹ tn The translation understands the relative clause as a statement by Moses, not as part of the quotation from the evildoers. See also v. 2.

¹¹ tn Heb “bind the silver in your hand.”

¹³ tc The MT reads “and to the sun,” thus including the sun, the moon, and other heavenly spheres among the gods. However, Theodotion and Lucian read “or to the sun,” suggesting perhaps that the sun and the other heavenly bodies are not in the category of actual deities.

¹⁴ tn Heb “which I have not commanded you.” The words “to worship” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁵ tn Heb “Who [is] the man.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in the previous verse.

¹⁸ tn Heb “and walk in his ways” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

¹⁹ tn Heb “from all the words which I am commanding.”

²⁰ tn Heb “in order to serve.”

²¹ tn The Hebrew text includes “on you.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

²² tn The Hebrew text includes “from on your feet.”

²³ tn Heb “did not assign to them”; NASB, NRSV “had not allotted to them.”