Deuteronomy 3:22

3:22 Do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God will personally fight for you.”

Deuteronomy 4:24

4:24 For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God. ¹ 

Deuteronomy 10:19

10:19 So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 15:13

15:13 If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

Deuteronomy 19:16

19:16 If a false ²  witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime, ³ 

Deuteronomy 22:13

Purity in the Marriage Relationship

22:13 Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, ⁴  and then rejects ⁵  her,

Deuteronomy 23:22

23:22 If you refrain from making a vow, it will not be sinful.

Deuteronomy 24:6

24:6 One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security. ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 30:14

30:14 For the thing is very near you – it is in your mouth and in your mind ⁷  so that you can do it.

Deuteronomy 32:3

32:3 For I will proclaim the name ⁸  of the Lord;

you must acknowledge the greatness of our God.

Deuteronomy 32:9

32:9 For the Lord’s allotment is his people,

Jacob is his special possession. ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 32:28

32:28 They are a nation devoid of wisdom,

and there is no understanding among them.

¹ tn The juxtaposition of the Hebrew terms אֵשׁ (’esh, “fire”) and קַנָּא (qanna’, “jealous”) is interesting in light of Deut 6:15 where the Lord is seen as a jealous God whose anger bursts into a destructive fire. For God to be “jealous” means that his holiness and uniqueness cannot tolerate pretended or imaginary rivals. It is not petty envy but response to an act of insubordination that must be severely judged (see H. Peels, NIDOTTE 3:937-40).

¹ tn Heb “violent” (חָמָס, khamas). This is a witness whose motivation from the beginning is to do harm to the accused and who, therefore, resorts to calumny and deceit. See I. Swart and C. VanDam, NIDOTTE 2:177-80.

² tn Or “rebellion.” Rebellion against God’s law is in view (cf. NAB “of a defection from the law”).

¹ tn Heb “goes to her,” a Hebrew euphemistic idiom for sexual relations.

² tn Heb “hate.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15. Cf. NAB “comes to dislike”; NASB “turns against”; TEV “decides he doesn’t want.”

¹ sn Taking millstones as security on a loan would amount to taking the owner’s own life in pledge, since the millstones were the owner’s means of earning a living and supporting his family.

¹ tn Heb “heart.”

¹ tc Smr and Tg read “in the name.”

¹ tc Heb “the portion of his inheritance.” The LXX and Smr add “Israel” and BHS suggests the reconstruction: “The Lord’s allotment is Jacob, the portion of his inheritance is Israel” (cf. NAB). While providing good parallelism, it destroys a fine chiastic structure: “allotment” (a), “his people” (b), “Jacob (b’), and “inheritance” (a’).