Deuteronomy 1:35

1:35 “Not a single person ¹  of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

Deuteronomy 3:5

3:5 All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; ²  in addition there were a great many open villages. ³ 

Deuteronomy 4:30

4:30 In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, ⁴  if you return to the Lord your God and obey him ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 5:3

5:3 He ⁶  did not make this covenant with our ancestors ⁷  but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

Deuteronomy 6:24

6:24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him ⁸  so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

Deuteronomy 10:21

10:21 He is the one you should praise; ⁹  he is your God, the one who has done these great and awesome things for you that you have seen.

Deuteronomy 11:18

11:18 Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, ¹⁰  and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols ¹¹  on your forehead.

Deuteronomy 20:15-16

20:15 This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations

20:16 As for the cities of these peoples that ¹²  the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing ¹³  to survive.

Deuteronomy 22:5

22:5 A woman must not wear men’s clothing, ¹⁴  nor should a man dress up in women’s clothing, for anyone who does this is offensive ¹⁵  to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 22:17

22:17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out ¹⁶  before the city’s elders.

Deuteronomy 25:3

25:3 The judge ¹⁷  may sentence him to forty blows, ¹⁸  but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite ¹⁹  with contempt.

Deuteronomy 26:16

Narrative Interlude

26:16 Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul. ²⁰ 

Deuteronomy 27:4

27:4 So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal ²¹  these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.

Deuteronomy 27:12

27:12 “The following tribes ²²  must stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

Deuteronomy 30:7

30:7 Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

Deuteronomy 31:28

31:28 Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

[1:35]  ¹ tn Heb “Not a man among these men.”

[3:5]  ² tn Or “high walls and barred gates” (NLT); Heb “high walls, gates, and bars.” Since “bars” could be understood to mean “saloons,” the qualifying adjective “locking” has been supplied in the translation.

[3:5]  ³ tn The Hebrew term פְּרָזִי (pÿraziy) refers to rural areas, at the most “unwalled villages” (KJV, NASB “unwalled towns”).

[4:30]  ³ 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]  ⁴ 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.

[5:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[5:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “fathers.”

[6:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord our God.” See note on the word “his” in v. 17.

[10:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “your praise.” The pronoun is subjective and the noun “praise” is used here metonymically for the object of their praise (the Lord).

[11:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[11:18]  ⁸ tn On the Hebrew term טוֹטָפֹת (totafot, “reminders”), cf. Deut 6:4-9.

[20:16]  ⁸ tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”

[20:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “any breath.”

[22:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “a man’s clothing.”

[22:5]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “offense”) speaks of anything that runs counter to ritual or moral order, especially (in the OT) to divine standards. Cross-dressing in this covenant context may suggest homosexuality, fertility cult ritual, or some other forbidden practice.

[22:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they will spread the garment.”

[25:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the judge) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:3]  ¹² tn Heb “Forty blows he may strike him”; however, since the judge is to witness the punishment (v. 2) it is unlikely the judge himself administered it.

[25:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “your brothers” but not limited only to an actual sibling; cf. NAB) “your kinsman”; NRSV, NLT “your neighbor.”

[26:16]  ¹² tn Or “mind and being”; cf. NCV “with your whole being”; TEV “obey them faithfully with all your heart.”

[27:4]  ¹³ tc Smr reads “Mount Gerizim” for the MT reading “Mount Ebal” to justify the location of the Samaritan temple there in the postexilic period. This reading is patently self-serving and does not reflect the original. In the NT when the Samaritan woman of Sychar referred to “this mountain” as the place of worship for her community she obviously had Gerizim in mind (cf. John 4:20).

[27:12]  ¹⁴ tn The word “tribes” has been supplied here and in the following verse in the translation for clarity.