Deuteronomy 1:35

1:35 “Not a single person ¹  of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

Deuteronomy 4:25

Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience

4:25 After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, ²  if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind ³  and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him, ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 13:11

13:11 Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you. ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 17:7

17:7 The witnesses ⁶  must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people ⁷  are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 21:21

21:21 Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out ⁸  wickedness from among you, and all Israel ⁹  will hear about it and be afraid.

Deuteronomy 24:7

24:7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, ¹⁰  and regards him as mere property ¹¹  and sells him, that kidnapper ¹²  must die. In this way you will purge ¹³  evil from among you.

¹ tn Heb “Not a man among these men.”

² tn Heb “have grown old in the land,” i.e., been there for a long time.

³ tn Heb “a form of anything.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, TEV “an idol.”

⁴ tn The infinitive construct is understood here as indicating the result, not the intention, of their actions.

³ sn Some see in this statement an argument for the deterrent effect of capital punishment (Deut 17:13; 19:20; 21:21).

⁴ tn Heb “the hand of the witnesses.” This means the two or three witnesses are to throw the first stones (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

⁵ tn Heb “the hand of all the people.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew term בִּעַרְתָּה (bi’artah), here and elsewhere in such contexts (cf. Deut 13:5; 17:7, 12; 19:19; 21:9), suggests God’s anger which consumes like fire (thus בָעַר, ba’ar, “to burn”). See H. Ringgren, TDOT 2:203-4.

⁶ tc Some LXX traditions read הַנִּשְׁאָרִים (hannish’arim, “those who remain”) for the MT’s יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra’el, “Israel”), understandable in light of Deut 19:20. However, the more difficult reading found in the MT is more likely original.

⁶ tn Heb “from his brothers, from the sons of Israel.” The terms “brothers” and “sons of Israel” are in apposition; the second defines the first more specifically.

⁷ tn Or “and enslaves him.”

⁸ tn Heb “that thief.”

⁹ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the word “purge” in Deut 19:19.