Genesis 7:11

7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep ¹  burst open and the floodgates of the heavens ²  were opened.

Deuteronomy 28:12

28:12 The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; ³  you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.

Deuteronomy 28:2

28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance ⁴  if you obey the Lord your God:

Deuteronomy 7:2

7:2 and he ⁵  delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate ⁶  them. Make no treaty ⁷  with them and show them no mercy!

Deuteronomy 7:19

7:19 the great judgments ⁸  you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power ⁹  by which he ¹⁰  brought you out – thus the Lord your God will do to all the people you fear.

¹ tn The Hebrew term תְּהוֹם (tÿhom, “deep”) refers to the watery deep, the salty ocean – especially the primeval ocean that surrounds and underlies the earth (see Gen 1:2).

² sn On the prescientific view of the sky reflected here, see L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World (AnBib), 46.

³ tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”

⁴ tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”

⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁶ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive absolute before the finite verb emphasizes the statement. The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. Cf. ASV “shalt (must NRSV) utterly destroy them”; CEV “must destroy them without mercy.”

⁷ tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”

⁸ tn Heb “testings” (so NAB), a reference to the plagues. See note at 4:34.

⁹ tn Heb “the strong hand and outstretched arm.” See 4:34.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.