Deuteronomy 3:18

Instructions to the Transjordanian Tribes

3:18 At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites ¹  equipped for battle.

Deuteronomy 5:24

5:24 You said, “The Lord our God has shown us his great glory ²  and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us ³  that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.

Deuteronomy 7:24

7:24 He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. ⁴  Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

Deuteronomy 21:17

21:17 Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved ⁵  wife as firstborn and give him the double portion ⁶  of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power ⁷  – to him should go the right of the firstborn.

Deuteronomy 33:7

Blessing on Judah

33:7 And this is the blessing ⁸  to Judah. He said,

Listen, O Lord, to Judah’s voice,

and bring him to his people.

May his power be great,

and may you help him against his foes.

¹ tn Heb “your brothers, the sons of Israel.”

² tn Heb “his glory and his greatness.”

³ tn Heb “this day we have seen.”

³ tn Heb “you will destroy their name from under heaven” (cf. KJV); NRSV “blot out their name from under heaven.”

⁴ tn See note on the word “other” in v. 15.

⁵ tn Heb “measure of two.” The Hebrew expression פִּי שְׁנַיִם (piy shÿnayim) suggests a two-thirds split; that is, the elder gets two parts and the younger one part. Cf. 2 Kgs 2:9; Zech 13:8. The practice is implicit in Isaac’s blessing of Jacob (Gen 25:31-34) and Jacob’s blessing of Ephraim (Gen 48:8-22).

⁶ tn Heb “his generative power” (אוֹן, ’on; cf. HALOT 22 s.v.). Cf. NAB “the first fruits of his manhood”; NRSV “the first issue of his virility.”

⁵ tn The words “the blessing” are supplied in the translation for clarity and stylistic reasons.