Deuteronomy 1:38

1:38 However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, ¹  will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land. ² 

Deuteronomy 4:11

4:11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it ³  and yet dark with a thick cloud. ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 18:5

18:5 For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand ⁵  and serve in his name ⁶  permanently.

Deuteronomy 19:17

19:17 then both parties to the controversy must stand before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges ⁷  who will be in office in those days.

Deuteronomy 27:12

27:12 “The following tribes ⁸  must stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

Deuteronomy 29:15

29:15 but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “the one who stands before you”; NAB “your aide”; TEV “your helper.”

² tn Heb “it”; the referent (the land) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “a mountain burning with fire as far as the heart of the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

⁴ tn Heb “darkness, cloud, and heavy cloud.”

⁵ tc Smr and some Greek texts add “before the Lord your God” to bring the language into line with a formula found elsewhere (Deut 10:8; 2 Chr 29:11). This reading is not likely to be original, however.

⁶ tn Heb “the name of the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁷ tn The appositional construction (“before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges”) indicates that these human agents represented the Lord himself, that is, they stood in his place (cf. Deut 16:18-20; 17:8-9).

⁹ tn The word “tribes” has been supplied here and in the following verse in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn This is interpreted by some English versions as a reference to generations not yet born (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).