Deuteronomy 2:4

2:4 Instruct ¹  these people as follows: ‘You are about to cross the border of your relatives ²  the descendants of Esau, ³  who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid of you, so watch yourselves carefully.

Deuteronomy 4:5

4:5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in ⁴  the land you are about to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 4:12

4:12 Then the Lord spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything – only a voice was heard. ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 6:1

Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles

6:1 Now these are the commandments, ⁶  statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 7:2

7:2 and he ⁸  delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate ⁹  them. Make no treaty ¹⁰  with them and show them no mercy!

Deuteronomy 7:7

The Basis of Israel’s Election

7:7 It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the Lord favored and chose you – for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.

Deuteronomy 7:24

7:24 He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. ¹¹  Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

Deuteronomy 11:11

11:11 Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy ¹²  is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains, ¹³ 

Deuteronomy 11:18

11:18 Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, ¹⁴  and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols ¹⁵  on your forehead.

Deuteronomy 11:31

11:31 For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

Deuteronomy 12:7

12:7 Both you and your families ¹⁶  must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he ¹⁷  has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 12:12

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 ¹⁸  (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you). ¹⁹ 

Deuteronomy 12:29

The Abomination of Pagan Gods

12:29 When the Lord your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land. ²⁰ 

Deuteronomy 29:9-10

The Present Covenant Setting

29:9 “Therefore, keep the terms ²¹  of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do. 29:10 You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, ²²  your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

Deuteronomy 29:16

The Results of Disobedience

29:16 “(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

Deuteronomy 29:25

29:25 Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 31:4

31:4 The Lord will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

[2:4]  ¹ tn Heb “command” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “charge the people as follows.”

[2:4]  ² tn Heb “brothers”; NAB “your kinsmen.”

[2:4]  ³ sn The descendants of Esau (Heb “sons of Esau”; the phrase also occurs in 2:8, 12, 22, 29). These are the inhabitants of the land otherwise known as Edom, south and east of the Dead Sea. Jacob’s brother Esau had settled there after his bitter strife with Jacob (Gen 36:1-8). “Edom” means “reddish,” probably because of the red sandstone of the region, but also by popular etymology because Esau, at birth, was reddish (Gen 25:25).

[4:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).

[4:12]  ⁷ tn The words “was heard” are supplied in the translation to avoid the impression that the voice was seen.

[6:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “commandment.” The word מִצְוָה (mitsvah) again is in the singular, serving as a comprehensive term for the whole stipulation section of the book. See note on the word “commandments” in 5:31.

[6:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “where you are going over to possess it” (so NASB); NRSV “that you are about to cross into and occupy.”

[7:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[7:2]  ¹⁴ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive absolute before the finite verb emphasizes the statement. The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. Cf. ASV “shalt (must NRSV) utterly destroy them”; CEV “must destroy them without mercy.”

[7:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”

[7:24]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “you will destroy their name from under heaven” (cf. KJV); NRSV “blot out their name from under heaven.”

[11:11]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “which you are crossing over there to possess it.”

[11:11]  ²⁰ tn Heb “rain of heaven.”

[11:18]  ²² tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[11:18]  ²³ tn On the Hebrew term טוֹטָפֹת (totafot, “reminders”), cf. Deut 6:4-9.

[12:7]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and your houses,” referring to entire households. The pronouns “you” and “your” are plural in the Hebrew text.

[12:7]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:12]  ²⁸ tn Heb “within your gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “who belongs to your community.”

[12:12]  ²⁹ sn They have no allotment or inheritance with you. See note on the word “inheritance” in Deut 10:9.

[12:29]  ³¹ tn Heb “dwell in their land” (so NASB). In the Hebrew text vv. 29-30 are one long sentence. For stylistic reasons the translation divides it into two.

[29:9]  ³⁴ tn Heb “words.”

[29:10]  ³⁷ tc Heb “your heads, your tribes.” The Syriac presupposes either “heads of your tribes” or “your heads, your judges,” etc. (reading שֹׁפְטֵכֶם [shofÿtekhem] for שִׁבְטֵיכֶם [shivtekhem]). Its comparative difficulty favors the originality of the MT reading. Cf. KJV “your captains of your tribes”; NRSV “the leaders of your tribes”; NLT “your tribal leaders.”