Deuteronomy 1:25

1:25 Then they took ¹  some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, “The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.”

Deuteronomy 4:30

4:30 In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, ²  if you return to the Lord your God and obey him ³ 

Deuteronomy 4:39

4:39 Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other!

Deuteronomy 20:6-7

20:6 Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it. 20:7 Or who among you ⁴  has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

Deuteronomy 23:13

23:13 You must have a spade among your other equipment and when you relieve yourself ⁵  outside you must dig a hole with the spade ⁶  and then turn and cover your excrement. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 28:31

28:31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.

Deuteronomy 30:2

30:2 Then if you and your descendants ⁸  turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being ⁹  just as ¹⁰  I am commanding you today,

Deuteronomy 30:8

30:8 You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving ¹¹  you today.

Deuteronomy 32:43

32:43 Cry out, O nations, with his people,

for he will avenge his servants’ blood;

he will take vengeance against his enemies,

and make atonement for his land and people.

[1:25]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text includes “in their hand,” which is unnecessary and somewhat redundant in English style.

[4:30]  ² sn The phrase is not used here in a technical sense for the eschaton, but rather refers to a future time when Israel will be punished for its sin and experience exile. See Deut 31:29.

[4:30]  ³ tn Heb “hear his voice.” The expression is an idiom meaning “obey,” occurring in Deut 8:20; 9:23; 13:18; 21:18, 20; 26:14, 17; 27:10; 28:1-2, 15, 45, 62; 30:2, 8, 10, 20.

[20:7]  ³ tn Heb “Who [is] the man.”

[23:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “sit.” This expression is euphemistic.

[23:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “with it”; the referent (the spade mentioned at the beginning of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “what comes from you,” a euphemism.

[30:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “children.”

[30:2]  ⁶ tn Or “heart and soul” (also in vv. 6, 10).

[30:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “according to all.”

[30:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I now enjoin on you.”