Deuteronomy 1:3

1:3 However, it was not until ¹  the first day of the eleventh month ²  of the fortieth year ³  that Moses addressed the Israelites just as ⁴  the Lord had instructed him to do.

Deuteronomy 1:22

1:22 So all of you approached me and said, “Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”

Deuteronomy 4:1

The Privileges of the Covenant

4:1 Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances ⁵  I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, ⁶  is giving you.

Deuteronomy 5:1

The Opening Exhortation

5:1 Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them: ⁷  “Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!

Deuteronomy 5:22

The Narrative of the Sinai Revelation and Israel’s Response

5:22 The Lord said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. ⁸  Then he inscribed the words ⁹  on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 5:27

5:27 You go near so that you can hear everything the Lord our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he ¹⁰  says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”

Deuteronomy 10:4

10:4 The Lord ¹¹  then wrote on the tablets the same words, ¹²  the ten commandments, ¹³  which he ¹⁴  had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he ¹⁵  gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 13:3

13:3 You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, ¹⁶  for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him ¹⁷  with all your mind and being. ¹⁸ 

Deuteronomy 17:12

17:12 The person who pays no attention ¹⁹  to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 18:14

18:14 Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.

Deuteronomy 22:2

22:2 If the owner ²⁰  does not live ²¹  near you or you do not know who the owner is, ²²  then you must corral the animal ²³  at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.

Deuteronomy 23:10

23:10 If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, ²⁴  he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

Deuteronomy 29:2

The Exodus, Wandering, and Conquest Reviewed

29:2 Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows: “You have seen all that the Lord did ²⁵  in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land.

Deuteronomy 31:2

31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, ²⁶  and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’

Deuteronomy 31:7

31:7 Then Moses called out to Joshua ²⁷  in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will accompany these people to the land that the Lord promised to give their ancestors, ²⁸  and you will enable them to inherit it.

Deuteronomy 31:9

The Deposit of the Covenant Text

31:9 Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all Israel’s elders.

Deuteronomy 31:20

31:20 For after I have brought them ²⁹  to the land I promised to their ³⁰  ancestors – one flowing with milk and honey – and they ³¹  eat their fill ³²  and become fat, then they ³³  will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.

[1:3]  ¹ tn Heb “in” or “on.” Here there is a contrast between the ordinary time of eleven days (v. 2) and the actual time of forty years, so “not until” brings out that vast disparity.

[1:3]  ² sn The eleventh month is Shebat in the Hebrew calendar, January/February in the modern (Gregorian) calendar.

[1:3]  ³ sn The fortieth year would be 1406 b.c. according to the “early” date of the exodus. See E. H. Merrill, Kingdom of Priests, 66-75.

[1:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “according to all which.”

[4:1]  ⁵ tn These technical Hebrew terms (חֻקִּים [khuqqim] and מִשְׁפָּטִים [mishpatim]) occur repeatedly throughout the Book of Deuteronomy to describe the covenant stipulations to which Israel had been called to subscribe (see, in this chapter alone, vv. 1, 5, 6, 8). The word חֻקִּים derives from the verb חֹק (khoq, “to inscribe; to carve”) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim) from שָׁפַט (shafat, “to judge”). They are virtually synonymous and are used interchangeably in Deuteronomy.

[4:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 31, 37).

[5:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “and Moses called to all Israel and he said to them”; NAB, NASB, NIV “Moses summoned (convened NRSV) all Israel.”

[5:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “and he added no more” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NLT “This was all he said at that time.”

[5:22]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the words spoken by the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:27]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the Lord our God.” See note on “He” in 5:3.

[10:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:4]  ²² tn Heb “according to the former writing.” See note on the phrase “the same words” in v. 2.

[10:4]  ²³ tn Heb “ten words.” The “Ten Commandments” are known in Hebrew as the “Ten Words,” which in Greek became the “Decalogue.”

[10:4]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[10:4]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” earlier in this verse.

[13:3]  ²⁵ tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

[13:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[13:3]  ²⁷ tn Heb “all your heart and soul” (so NRSV, CEV, NLT); or “heart and being” (NCV “your whole being”). See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[17:12]  ²⁹ tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).

[22:2]  ³³ tn Heb “your brother” (also later in this verse).

[22:2]  ³⁴ tn Heb “is not.” The idea of “residing” is implied.

[22:2]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and you do not know him.”

[22:2]  ³⁶ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the ox or sheep mentioned in v. 1) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:10]  ³⁷ tn Heb “nocturnal happening.” The Hebrew term קָרֶה (qareh) merely means “to happen” so the phrase here is euphemistic (a “night happening”) for some kind of bodily emission such as excrement or semen. Such otherwise normal physical functions rendered one ritually unclean whether accidental or not. See Lev 15:16-18; 22:4.

[29:2]  ⁴¹ tn The Hebrew text includes “to your eyes,” but this is redundant in English style (cf. the preceding “you have seen”) and is omitted in the translation.

[31:2]  ⁴⁵ tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”

[31:7]  ⁴⁹ tn The Hebrew text includes “and said to him.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[31:7]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 20).

[31:20]  ⁵³ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:20]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “his.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “their.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:20]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:20]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “and are satisfied.”

[31:20]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.