Deuteronomy 2:1

The Journey from Kadesh Barnea to Moab

2:1 Then we turned and set out toward the desert land on the way to the Red Sea ¹  just as the Lord told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.

Deuteronomy 8:7

8:7 For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, ²  springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

Deuteronomy 10:3

10:3 So I made an ark of acacia ³  wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Deuteronomy 14:28

14:28 At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.

Deuteronomy 17:5

17:5 you must bring to your city gates ⁴  that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death. ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 18:6

18:6 Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will ⁶  from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, ⁷  to the place the Lord chooses

Deuteronomy 22:15

22:15 Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity ⁸  for the elders of the city at the gate.

Deuteronomy 26:7

26:7 So we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and he ⁹  heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

Deuteronomy 29:28

29:28 So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”

[2:1]  ¹ tn Heb “Reed Sea.” See note on the term “Red Sea” in Deut 1:40.

[8:7]  ² tn Or “wadis.”

[10:3]  ³ sn Acacia wood (Heb “shittim wood”). This is wood from the acacia, the most common timber tree of the Sinai region. Most likely it is the species Acacia raddiana because this has the largest trunk. See F. N. Hepper, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Bible Plants, 63.

[17:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”

[18:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to all the desire of his soul.”

[18:6]  ⁶ tn Or “sojourning.” The verb used here refers to living temporarily in a place, not settling down.

[22:15]  ⁶ sn In light of v. 17 this would evidently be blood-stained sheets indicative of the first instance of intercourse. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 302-3.

[26:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 26:2.