Deuteronomy 1:16

1:16 I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they ¹  should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens ²  and judge fairly, ³  whether between one citizen and another ⁴  or a citizen and a resident foreigner. ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 1:44

1:44 The Amorite inhabitants of that area ⁶  confronted ⁷  you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah. ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 2:34

2:34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them ⁹  under divine judgment, ¹⁰  including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

Deuteronomy 3:8

3:8 So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon ¹¹ 

Deuteronomy 3:12

Distribution of the Transjordanian Allotments

3:12 This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer ¹²  by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites. ¹³ 

Deuteronomy 4:14

4:14 Moreover, at that same time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess. ¹⁴ 

Deuteronomy 9:19

9:19 For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger ¹⁵  that threatened to destroy you. But he ¹⁶  listened to me this time as well.

Deuteronomy 10:1

The Opportunity to Begin Again

10:1 At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark. ¹⁷ 

Deuteronomy 12:3

12:3 You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, ¹⁸  burn up their sacred Asherah poles, ¹⁹  and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

Deuteronomy 17:10

17:10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

Deuteronomy 21:6

21:6 and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse ²⁰  must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. ²¹ 

Deuteronomy 24:7

24:7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, ²²  and regards him as mere property ²³  and sells him, that kidnapper ²⁴  must die. In this way you will purge ²⁵  evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 29:27

29:27 That is why the Lord’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses ²⁶  written in this scroll.

Deuteronomy 31:18

31:18 But I will certainly ²⁷  hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they ²⁸  will have done by turning to other gods.

[1:16]  ¹ tn Or “you.” A number of English versions treat the remainder of this verse and v. 17 as direct discourse rather than indirect discourse (cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[1:16]  ² tn Heb “brothers.” The term “brothers” could, in English, be understood to refer to siblings, so “fellow citizens” has been used in the translation.

[1:16]  ³ tn The Hebrew word צֶדֶק (tsedeq, “fairly”) carries the basic idea of conformity to a norm of expected behavior or character, one established by God himself. Fair judgment adheres strictly to that norm or standard (see D. Reimer, NIDOTTE 3:750).

[1:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “between a man and his brother.”

[1:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “his stranger” or “his sojourner”; NAB, NIV “an alien”; NRSV “resident alien.” The Hebrew word גֵּר (ger) commonly means “foreigner.”

[1:44]  ⁶ tn Heb “in that hill country,” repeating the end of v. 43.

[1:44]  ⁷ tn Heb “came out to meet.”

[1:44]  ⁸ sn Hormah is probably Khirbet el-Meshash, 5.5 mi (9 km) west of Arad and 7.5 mi (12 km) SE of Beer Sheba. Its name is a derivative of the verb חָרָם (kharam, “to ban; to exterminate”). See Num 21:3.

[2:34]  ¹¹ tn Heb “every city of men.” This apparently identifies the cities as inhabited.

[2:34]  ¹² tn Heb “under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). The verb employed is חָרַם (kharam, usually in the Hiphil) and the associated noun is חֵרֶם (kherem). See J. Naudé, NIDOTTE, 2:276-77, and, for a more thorough discussion, Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible, 28-77.

[3:8]  ¹⁶ sn Mount Hermon. This is the famous peak at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range known today as Jebel es-Sheik.

[3:12]  ²¹ tn The words “the territory extending” are not in the Hebrew text; they are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[3:12]  ²² sn Reubenites and Gadites. By the time of Moses’ address the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had already been granted permission to settle in the Transjordan, provided they helped the other tribes subdue the occupants of Canaan (cf. Num 32:28-42).

[4:14]  ²⁶ tn Heb “to which you are crossing over to possess it.”

[9:19]  ³¹ tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” Although many English versions translate as two terms, this construction is a hendiadys which serves to intensify the emotion (cf. NAB, TEV “fierce anger”).

[9:19]  ³² tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

[10:1]  ³⁶ tn Or “chest” (so NIV, CEV); NLT “sacred chest”; TEV “wooden box.” This chest was made of acacia wood; it is later known as the ark of the covenant.

[12:3]  ⁴¹ sn Sacred pillars. These are the stelae (stone pillars; the Hebrew term is מַצֵּבֹת, matsevot) associated with Baal worship, perhaps to mark a spot hallowed by an alleged visitation of the gods. See also Deut 7:5.

[12:3]  ⁴² sn Sacred Asherah poles. The Hebrew term (plural) is אֲשֵׁרִים (’asherim). See note on the word “(leafy) tree” in v. 2, and also Deut 7:5.

[21:6]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “slain [one].”

[21:6]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “wadi,” a seasonal watercourse through a valley.

[24:7]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “from his brothers, from the sons of Israel.” The terms “brothers” and “sons of Israel” are in apposition; the second defines the first more specifically.

[24:7]  ⁵² tn Or “and enslaves him.”

[24:7]  ⁵³ tn Heb “that thief.”

[24:7]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the word “purge” in Deut 19:19.

[29:27]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “the entire curse.”

[31:18]  ⁶¹ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “certainly.”

[31:18]  ⁶² tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.