Deuteronomy 8:19

8:19 Now if you forget the Lord your God at all ¹  and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.

Deuteronomy 11:28

11:28 and the curse if you pay no attention ²  to his ³  commandments and turn from the way I am setting before ⁴  you today to pursue ⁵  other gods you have not known.

Deuteronomy 13:6

False Prophets in the Family

13:6 Suppose your own full brother, ⁶  your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods ⁷  that neither you nor your ancestors ⁸  have previously known, ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 18:20

18:20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized ¹⁰  him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

Deuteronomy 20:5

20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, ¹¹  “Who among you ¹²  has built a new house and not dedicated ¹³  it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else ¹⁴  dedicate it.

Deuteronomy 28:36

28:36 The Lord will force you and your king ¹⁵  whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

Deuteronomy 28:64

28:64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 31:20

31:20 For after I have brought them ¹⁶  to the land I promised to their ¹⁷  ancestors – one flowing with milk and honey – and they ¹⁸  eat their fill ¹⁹  and become fat, then they ²⁰  will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.

¹ tn Heb “if forgetting, you forget.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis; the translation indicates this with the words “at all” (cf. KJV).

² tn Heb “do not listen to,” that is, do not obey.

³ tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁴ tn Heb “am commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

⁵ tn Heb “walk after”; NIV “by following”; NLT “by worshiping.” This is a violation of the first commandment, the most serious of the covenant violations (Deut 5:6-7).

³ tn Heb “your brother, the son of your mother.” In a polygamous society it was not rare to have half brothers and sisters by way of a common father and different mothers.

⁴ tn In the Hebrew text these words are in the form of a brief quotation: “entice you secretly saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods.’”

⁵ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 17).

⁶ tn Heb “which you have not known, you or your fathers.” (cf. KJV, ASV; on “fathers” cf. v. 18).

⁴ tn Or “commanded” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

⁵ tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).

⁶ tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).

⁷ tn The Hebrew term חָנַךְ (khanakh) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form (חָנֻכָּה, khanukah) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar (2 Chr 7:9) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).

⁸ tn Heb “another man.”

⁶ tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”

⁷ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

⁸ tn Heb “his.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “their.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

⁹ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and are satisfied.”

¹¹ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.