Deuteronomy 6:18

6:18 Do whatever is proper ¹  and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he ²  promised your ancestors,

Deuteronomy 18:20

18:20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized ³  him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

Deuteronomy 28:20

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you ⁴  in everything you undertake ⁵  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 28:48

28:48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty ⁷  you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They ⁸  will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 32:43

32:43 Cry out, O nations, with his people,

for he will avenge his servants’ blood;

he will take vengeance against his enemies,

and make atonement for his land and people.

Deuteronomy 33:8

Blessing on Levi

33:8 Of Levi he said:

Your Thummim and Urim ⁹  belong to your godly one, ¹⁰ 

whose authority you challenged at Massah, ¹¹ 

and with whom you argued at the waters of Meribah. ¹² 

¹ tn Heb “upright.”

² tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on the word “his” in v. 17.

³ tn Or “commanded” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

⁵ tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

⁶ tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

⁷ tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.

⁷ tn Heb “lack of everything.”

⁸ tn Heb “he” (also later in this verse). The pronoun is a collective singular referring to the enemies (cf. CEV, NLT). Many translations understand the singular pronoun to refer to the Lord (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV).

⁹ sn Thummim and Urim. These terms, whose meaning is uncertain, refer to sacred stones carried in a pouch on the breastplate of the high priest and examined on occasion as a means of ascertaining God’s will or direction. See Exod 28:30; Lev 8:8; Num 27:21; 1 Sam 28:6. See also C. Van Dam, NIDOTTE 1:329-31.

¹⁰ tn Heb “godly man.” The reference is probably to Moses as representative of the whole tribe of Levi.

¹¹ sn Massah means “testing” in Hebrew; the name is a wordplay on what took place there. Cf. Exod 17:7; Deut 6:16; 9:22; Ps 95:8-9.

¹² sn Meribah means “contention, argument” in Hebrew; this is another wordplay on the incident that took place there. Cf. Num 20:13, 24; Ps 106:32.