Deuteronomy 1:31

1:31 and in the desert, where you saw him ¹  carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”

Deuteronomy 8:18

8:18 You must remember the Lord your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, ²  even as he has to this day.

Deuteronomy 17:12

17:12 The person who pays no attention ³  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 20:8

20:8 In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s ⁴  heart as fearful ⁵  as his own.”

Deuteronomy 21:16-17

21:16 In the day he divides his inheritance ⁶  he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other ⁷  wife’s son who is actually the firstborn. 21:17 Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved ⁸  wife as firstborn and give him the double portion ⁹  of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power ¹⁰  – to him should go the right of the firstborn.

Deuteronomy 23:14

23:14 For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat ¹¹  your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent ¹²  among you and turn away from you.

Deuteronomy 28:29

28:29 You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; ¹³  you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.

Deuteronomy 28:56

28:56 Likewise, the most ¹⁴  tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, ¹⁵  will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

[1:31]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun (“him”) has been employed in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:18]  ² tc Smr and Lucian add “Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” the standard way of rendering this almost stereotypical formula (cf. Deut 1:8; 6:10; 9:5, 27; 29:13; 30:20; 34:4). The MT’s harder reading presumptively argues for its originality, however.

[17:12]  ³ tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).

[20:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “his brother’s.”

[20:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “melted.”

[21:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “when he causes his sons to inherit what is his.”

[21:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “the hated.”

[21:17]  ⁶ tn See note on the word “other” in v. 15.

[21:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “measure of two.” The Hebrew expression פִּי שְׁנַיִם (piy shÿnayim) suggests a two-thirds split; that is, the elder gets two parts and the younger one part. Cf. 2 Kgs 2:9; Zech 13:8. The practice is implicit in Isaac’s blessing of Jacob (Gen 25:31-34) and Jacob’s blessing of Ephraim (Gen 48:8-22).

[21:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “his generative power” (אוֹן, ’on; cf. HALOT 22 s.v.). Cf. NAB “the first fruits of his manhood”; NRSV “the first issue of his virility.”

[23:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “give [over] your enemies.”

[23:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “nakedness of a thing”; NLT “any shameful thing.” The expression עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers specifically to sexual organs and, by extension, to any function associated with them. There are some aspects of human life that are so personal and private that they ought not be publicly paraded. Cultically speaking, even God is offended by such impropriety (cf. Gen 9:22-23; Lev 18:6-12, 16-19; 20:11, 17-21). See B. Seevers, NIDOTTE 3:528-30.

[28:29]  ⁸ tn Heb “you will not cause your ways to prosper.”

[28:56]  ⁹ tc The LXX adds σφόδρα (sfodra, “very”) to bring the description into line with v. 54.

[28:56]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “delicateness and tenderness.”