Deuteronomy 12:21

12:21 If the place he ¹  chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he ²  has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages ³  just as you wish.

Deuteronomy 16:11

16:11 You shall rejoice before him ⁴  – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, ⁵  the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.

Deuteronomy 16:1

The Passover-Unleavened Bread Festival

16:1 Observe the month Abib ⁶  and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month ⁷  he ⁸  brought you out of Egypt by night.

Deuteronomy 8:16

8:16 fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you ⁹  and eventually bring good to you.

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ¹⁰  I am giving ¹¹  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ¹²  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ¹³ 

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ¹⁴  I am giving ¹⁵  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ¹⁶  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ¹⁷ 

Psalms 132:14

132:14 He said, ¹⁸  “This will be my resting place forever;

I will live here, for I have chosen it. ¹⁹ 

Zechariah 3:2

3:2 The Lord ²⁰  said to Satan, “May the Lord rebuke you, Satan! May the Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, ²¹  rebuke you! Isn’t this man like a burning stick snatched from the fire?”

[12:21]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:21]  ² tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:21]  ³ tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in your own community.”

[16:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[16:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “gates.”

[16:1]  ⁶ sn The month Abib, later called Nisan (Neh 2:1; Esth 3:7), corresponds to March-April in the modern calendar.

[16:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the month Abib.” The demonstrative “that” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[16:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[8:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “in order to humble you and in order to test you.” See 8:2.

[8:1]  ¹⁰ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

[8:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ¹² tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[8:1]  ¹⁴ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

[8:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[132:14]  ¹⁸ tn The words “he said” are added in the translation to clarify that what follows are the Lord’s words.

[132:14]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “for I desired it.”

[3:2]  ²⁰ sn The juxtaposition of the messenger of the Lord in v. 1 and the Lord in v. 2 shows that here, at least, they are one and the same. See Zech 1:11, 12 where they are distinguished from each other.

[3:2]  ²¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.