Deuteronomy 12:7-12

12:7 Both you and your families ¹  must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he ²  has blessed you. 12:8 You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone ³  doing what seems best to him, 12:9 for you have not yet come to the final stop ⁴  and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you. 12:10 When you do go across the Jordan River ⁵  and settle in the land he ⁶  is granting you as an inheritance and you find relief from all the enemies who surround you, you will live in safety. ⁷  12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing ⁸  everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, ⁹  and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. ¹⁰  12:12 You shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages ¹¹  (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you). ¹² 

Deuteronomy 16:11

16:11 You shall rejoice before him ¹³  – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, ¹⁴  the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.

Deuteronomy 32:13-15

32:13 He enabled him ¹⁵  to travel over the high terrain of the land,

and he ate of the produce of the fields.

He provided honey for him from the cliffs, ¹⁶ 

and olive oil ¹⁷  from the hardest of ¹⁸  rocks, ¹⁹ 

32:14 butter from the herd

and milk from the flock,

along with the fat of lambs,

rams and goats of Bashan,

along with the best of the kernels of wheat;

and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

Israel’s Rebellion

32:15 But Jeshurun ²⁰  became fat and kicked,

you ²¹  got fat, thick, and stuffed!

Then he deserted the God who made him,

and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.

Nehemiah 9:35

9:35 Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible ²²  goodness that you had lavished ²³  on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set ²⁴  before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.

Nehemiah 9:1

The People Acknowledge Their Sin before God

9:1 On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.

Nehemiah 6:17-19

6:17 In those days the aristocrats of Judah repeatedly sent letters to Tobiah, and responses from Tobiah were repeatedly coming to them. 6:18 For many in Judah had sworn allegiance to him, ²⁵  because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah. His son Jonathan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah. 6:19 They were telling me about his good deeds and then taking back to him the things I said. ²⁶  Tobiah, on the other hand, sent letters in order to scare ²⁷  me.

[12:7]  ¹ tn Heb “and your houses,” referring to entire households. The pronouns “you” and “your” are plural in the Hebrew text.

[12:7]  ² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:8]  ³ tn Heb “a man.”

[12:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “rest.”

[12:10]  ⁵ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[12:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:10]  ⁷ tn In the Hebrew text vv. 10-11 are one long, complex sentence. For stylistic reasons the translation divides this into two sentences.

[12:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “and it will be (to) the place where the Lord your God chooses to cause his name to dwell you will bring.”

[12:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”

[12:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “within your gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “who belongs to your community.”

[12:12]  ¹² sn They have no allotment or inheritance with you. See note on the word “inheritance” in Deut 10:9.

[16:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[16:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “gates.”

[32:13]  ¹⁵ tn The form of the suffix on this verbal form indicates that the verb is a preterite, not an imperfect. As such it simply states the action factually. Note as well the preterites with vav (ו) consecutive that follow in the verse.

[32:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he made him suck honey from the rock.”

[32:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “oil,” but this probably refers to olive oil; see note on the word “rock” at the end of this verse.

[32:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “flinty.”

[32:13]  ¹⁹ sn Olive oil from rock probably suggests olive trees growing on rocky ledges and yet doing so productively. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 415; cf. TEV “their olive trees flourished in stony ground.”

[32:15]  ²⁰ tn To make the continuity of the referent clear, some English versions substitute “Jacob” here (NAB, NRSV) while others replace “Jeshurun” with “Israel” (NCV, CEV, NLT) or “the Lord’s people” (TEV).

[32:15]  ²¹ tc The LXX reads the third person masculine singular (“he”) for the MT second person masculine singular (“you”), but such alterations are unnecessary in Hebrew poetic texts where subjects fluctuate frequently and without warning.

[9:35]  ²² tn Heb “great.”

[9:35]  ²³ tn Heb “given them.”

[9:35]  ²⁴ tn Heb “given.”

[6:18]  ²⁵ tn Heb “were lords of oath.”

[6:19]  ²⁶ tn Heb “my words.”

[6:19]  ²⁷ tn Or “to intimidate” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).