Leviticus 10:11

10:11 and to teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them through ¹  Moses.”

Deuteronomy 33:10

33:10 They will teach Jacob your ordinances

and Israel your law;

they will offer incense as a pleasant odor,

and a whole offering on your altar.

Deuteronomy 33:2

33:2 He said:

A Historical Review

The Lord came from Sinai

and revealed himself ²  to Israel ³  from Seir.

He appeared in splendor ⁴  from Mount Paran,

and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. ⁵ 

With his right hand he gave a fiery law ⁶  to them.

Deuteronomy 17:7-9

17:7 The witnesses ⁷  must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people ⁸  are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Appeal to a Higher Court

17:8 If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, ⁹  legal claim, ¹⁰  or assault ¹¹  – matters of controversy in your villages ¹²  – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. ¹³  17:9 You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.

Deuteronomy 30:1

The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation

30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses ¹⁴  I have set before you, you will reflect upon them ¹⁵  in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.

Malachi 2:7

2:7 For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him ¹⁶  because he is the messenger of the Lord who rules over all.

¹ tn Heb “by the hand of” (so KJV).

² tn Or “rose like the sun” (NCV, TEV).

³ tc Heb “to him.” The LXX reads “to us” (לָנוּ [lanu] for לָמוֹ [lamo]), the reading of the MT is acceptable since it no doubt has in mind Israel as a collective singular.

⁴ tn Or “he shone forth” (NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

⁵ tc With slight alteration (מִמְרִבַת קָדֵשׁ [mimrivat qadesh] for the MT’s מֵרִבְבֹת קֹדֶשׁ [merivvot qodesh]) the translation would be “from Meribah Kadesh” (cf. NAB, NLT; see Deut 32:51). However, the language of holy war in the immediate context favors the reading of the MT, which views the Lord as accompanied by angelic hosts.

⁶ tc The mispointed Hebrew term אֵשְׁדָּת (’eshdat) should perhaps be construed as אֵשְׁהַת (’eshhat) with Smr.

⁷ tn Heb “the hand of the witnesses.” This means the two or three witnesses are to throw the first stones (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

⁸ tn Heb “the hand of all the people.”

⁹ tn Heb “between blood and blood.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “between claim and claim.”

¹¹ tn Heb “between blow and blow.”

¹² tn Heb “gates.”

¹³ tc Several Greek recensions add “to place his name there,” thus completing the usual formula to describe the central sanctuary (cf. Deut 12:5, 11, 14, 18; 16:6). However, the context suggests that the local Levitical towns, and not the central sanctuary, are in mind.

¹⁴ tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “from his mouth” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV).