Deuteronomy 2:37--3:1

2:37 However, you did not approach the land of the Ammonites, the Wadi Jabbok, ¹  the cities of the hill country, or any place else forbidden by the Lord our God.

Defeat of King Og of Bashan

3:1 Next we set out on ²  the route to Bashan, ³  but King Og of Bashan and his whole army ⁴  came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 5:21

5:21 You must not desire ⁶  another man’s ⁷  wife, nor should you crave his ⁸  house, his field, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, or anything else he owns.” ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 7:15

7:15 The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.

Deuteronomy 12:17

12:17 You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.

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. ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 14:6

14:6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud. ¹¹ 

Deuteronomy 21:6

21:6 and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse ¹²  must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. ¹³ 

Deuteronomy 21:21

21:21 Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out ¹⁴  wickedness from among you, and all Israel ¹⁵  will hear about it and be afraid.

Deuteronomy 28:33

28:33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

Deuteronomy 28:61

28:61 Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, ¹⁶  until you have perished.

¹ sn Wadi Jabbok. Now known as the Zerqa River, this is a major tributary of the Jordan that normally served as a boundary between Ammon and Gad (Deut 3:16).

² tn Heb “turned and went up.”

³ sn Bashan. This plateau country, famous for its oaks (Isa 2:13) and cattle (Deut 32:14; Amos 4:1), was north of Gilead along the Yarmuk River.

⁴ tn Heb “people.”

⁵ sn Edrei is probably modern Deràa, 60 mi (95 km) south of Damascus (see Num 21:33; Josh 12:4; 13:12, 31; also mentioned in Deut 1:4).

³ tn The Hebrew verb used here (חָמַד, khamad) is different from the one translated “crave” (אָוַה, ’avah) in the next line. The former has sexual overtones (“lust” or the like; cf. Song of Sol 2:3) whereas the latter has more the idea of a desire or craving for material things.

⁴ tn Heb “your neighbor’s.” See note on the term “fellow man” in v. 19.

⁵ tn Heb “your neighbor’s.” The pronoun is used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

⁴ sn Some see in this statement an argument for the deterrent effect of capital punishment (Deut 17:13; 19:20; 21:21).

⁵ tn The Hebrew text includes “among the animals.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “slain [one].”

⁷ tn Heb “wadi,” a seasonal watercourse through a valley.

⁷ 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.

⁸ 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.

⁸ tn The Hebrew term תּוֹרָה (torah) can refer either (1) to the whole Pentateuch or, more likely, (2) to the book of Deuteronomy or even (3) only to this curse section of the covenant text. “Scroll” better reflects the actual document, since “book” conveys the notion of a bound book with pages to the modern English reader. Cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “the book of this law”; NIV, NLT “this Book of the Law”; TEV “this book of God’s laws and teachings.”