Deuteronomy 13:3

13:3 You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, ¹  for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him ²  with all your mind and being. ³ 

Deuteronomy 17:12

17:12 The person who pays no attention ⁴  to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 20:3

20:3 “Listen, Israel! Today you are moving forward to do battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted. Do not fear and tremble or be terrified because of them,

Deuteronomy 23:10

23:10 If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, ⁵  he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

Deuteronomy 26:3

26:3 You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “I declare today to the Lord your ⁶  God that I have come into the land that the Lord ⁷  promised ⁸  to our ancestors ⁹  to give us.”

Deuteronomy 31:20

31:20 For after I have brought them ¹⁰  to the land I promised to their ¹¹  ancestors – one flowing with milk and honey – and they ¹²  eat their fill ¹³  and become fat, then they ¹⁴  will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.

¹ tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

³ tn Heb “all your heart and soul” (so NRSV, CEV, NLT); or “heart and being” (NCV “your whole being”). See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

⁴ tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).

⁷ tn Heb “nocturnal happening.” The Hebrew term קָרֶה (qareh) merely means “to happen” so the phrase here is euphemistic (a “night happening”) for some kind of bodily emission such as excrement or semen. Such otherwise normal physical functions rendered one ritually unclean whether accidental or not. See Lev 15:16-18; 22:4.

¹⁰ tc For the MT reading “your God,” certain LXX mss have “my God,” a contextually superior rendition followed by some English versions (e.g., NAB, NASB, TEV). Perhaps the text reflects dittography of the kaf (כ) at the end of the word with the following preposition כִּי (ki).

¹¹ tc The Syriac adds “your God” to complete the usual formula.

¹² tn Heb “swore on oath.”

¹³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 15).

¹³ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

¹⁴ tn Heb “his.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “their.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

¹⁵ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

¹⁶ tn Heb “and are satisfied.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.