Deuteronomy 1:15

1:15 So I chose ¹  as your tribal leaders wise and well-known men, placing them over you as administrators of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and also as other tribal officials.

Deuteronomy 3:4

3:4 We captured all his cities at that time – there was not a town we did not take from them – sixty cities, all the region of Argob, ²  the dominion of Og in Bashan.

Deuteronomy 3:14

3:14 Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites ³  and Maacathites ⁴  (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair, ⁵  which it retains to this very day.)

Deuteronomy 4:34

4:34 Or has God ⁶  ever before tried to deliver ⁷  a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, ⁸  signs, wonders, war, strength, power, ⁹  and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

Deuteronomy 7:25

7:25 You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent ¹⁰  to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 9:9

9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there ¹¹  forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

Deuteronomy 9:21

9:21 As for your sinful thing ¹²  that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ¹³  ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

Deuteronomy 10:17

10:17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe,

Deuteronomy 21:3

21:3 Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse ¹⁴  must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked – that has never pulled with the yoke –

Deuteronomy 22:6

22:6 If you happen to notice a bird’s nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them, ¹⁵  you must not take the mother from the young. ¹⁶ 

Deuteronomy 22:14

22:14 accusing her of impropriety ¹⁷  and defaming her reputation ¹⁸  by saying, “I married this woman but when I had sexual relations ¹⁹  with her I discovered she was not a virgin!”

Deuteronomy 24:1

24:1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive ²⁰  in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

Deuteronomy 24:3-4

24:3 If the second husband rejects ²¹  her and then divorces her, ²²  gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies, 24:4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry ²³  her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. ²⁴  You must not bring guilt on the land ²⁵  which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 24:19

24:19 Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, ²⁶  you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the Lord your God may bless all the work you do. ²⁷ 

Deuteronomy 25:5

Respect for the Sanctity of Others

25:5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, ²⁸  and perform the duty of a brother-in-law. ²⁹ 

Deuteronomy 25:7

25:7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she ³⁰  must go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”

Deuteronomy 26:2

26:2 you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he ³¹  chooses to locate his name. ³² 

[1:15]  ¹ tn Or “selected”; Heb “took.”

[3:4]  ² sn Argob. This is a subdistrict of Bashan, perhaps north of the Yarmuk River. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 314.

[3:14]  ³ sn Geshurites. Geshur was a city and its surrounding area somewhere northeast of Bashan (cf. Josh 12:5 ; 13:11, 13). One of David’s wives was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur and mother of Absalom (cf. 2 Sam 13:37; 15:8; 1 Chr 3:2).

[3:14]  ⁴ sn Maacathites. These were the people of a territory southwest of Mount Hermon on the Jordan River. The name probably has nothing to do with David’s wife from Geshur (see note on “Geshurites” earlier in this verse).

[3:14]  ⁵ sn Havvoth-Jair. The Hebrew name means “villages of Jair,” the latter being named after a son (i.e., descendant) of Manasseh who took the area by conquest.

[4:34]  ⁴ tn The translation assumes the reference is to Israel’s God in which case the point is this: God’s intervention in Israel’s experience is unique in the sense that he has never intervened in such power for any other people on earth. The focus is on the uniqueness of Israel’s experience. Some understand the divine name here in a generic sense, “a god,” or “any god.” In this case God’s incomparability is the focus (cf. v. 35, where this theme is expressed).

[4:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “tried to go to take for himself.”

[4:34]  ⁶ tn Heb “by testings.” The reference here is the judgments upon Pharaoh in the form of plagues. See Deut 7:19 (cf. v. 18) and 29:3 (cf. v. 2).

[4:34]  ⁷ tn Heb “by strong hand and by outstretched arm.”

[7:25]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “abhorrent; detestable”) describes anything detestable to the Lord because of its innate evil or inconsistency with his own nature and character. Frequently such things (or even persons) must be condemned to annihilation (חֵרֶם, kherem) lest they become a means of polluting or contaminating others (cf. Deut 13:17; 20:17-18). See M. Grisanti, NIDOTTE 4:315.

[9:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[9:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “your sin.” This is a metonymy in which the effect (sin) stands for the cause (the metal calf).

[9:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “burned it with fire.”

[21:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “slain [one].”

[22:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the mother sitting upon the chicks or the eggs.”

[22:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “sons,” used here in a generic sense for offspring.

[22:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “deeds of things”; NRSV “makes up charges against her”; NIV “slanders her.”

[22:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “brings against her a bad name”; NIV “gives her a bad name.”

[22:14]  ¹² tn Heb “drew near to her.” This is another Hebrew euphemism for having sexual relations.

[24:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “nakedness of a thing.” The Hebrew phrase עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers here to some gross sexual impropriety (see note on “indecent” in Deut 23:14). Though the term usually has to do only with indecent exposure of the genitals, it can also include such behavior as adultery (cf. Lev 18:6-18; 20:11, 17, 20-21; Ezek 22:10; 23:29; Hos 2:10).

[24:3]  ¹² tn Heb “hates.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15.

[24:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “writes her a document of divorce.”

[24:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”

[24:4]  ¹⁴ sn The issue here is not divorce and its grounds per se but prohibition of remarriage to a mate whom one has previously divorced.

[24:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).

[24:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in the field.”

[24:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “of your hands.” This law was later applied in the story of Ruth who, as a poor widow, was allowed by generous Boaz to glean in his fields (Ruth 2:1-13).

[25:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “take her as wife”; NRSV “taking her in marriage.”

[25:5]  ¹⁶ sn This is the so-called “levirate” custom (from the Latin term levir, “brother-in-law”), an ancient provision whereby a man who died without male descendants to carry on his name could have a son by proxy, that is, through a surviving brother who would marry his widow and whose first son would then be attributed to the brother who had died. This is the only reference to this practice in an OT legal text but it is illustrated in the story of Judah and his sons (Gen 38) and possibly in the account of Ruth and Boaz (Ruth 2:8; 3:12; 4:6).

[25:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister in law.” In the second instance the pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation to avoid redundancy.

[26:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[26:2]  ¹⁸ sn The place where he chooses to locate his name. This is a circumlocution for the central sanctuary, first the tabernacle and later the Jerusalem temple. See Deut 12:1-14 and especially the note on the word “you” in v. 14.