Deuteronomy 3:18

Instructions to the Transjordanian Tribes

3:18 At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites ¹  equipped for battle.

Deuteronomy 3:20-21

3:20 You must fight ²  until the Lord gives your countrymen victory ³  as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.” 3:21 I also commanded Joshua at the same time, “You have seen everything the Lord your God did to these two kings; he ⁴  will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going. ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 4:2

4:2 Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I am delivering to ⁶  you.

Deuteronomy 4:23

4:23 Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he ⁷  has forbidden ⁸  you.

Deuteronomy 4:34

4:34 Or has God ⁹  ever before tried to deliver ¹⁰  a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, ¹¹  signs, wonders, war, strength, power, ¹²  and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

Deuteronomy 9:23

9:23 And when he ¹³  sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God ¹⁴  and would neither believe nor obey him.

Deuteronomy 10:17

10:17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe,

Deuteronomy 11:2

11:2 Bear in mind today that I am not speaking ¹⁵  to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments ¹⁶  of the Lord your God, which revealed ¹⁷  his greatness, strength, and power. ¹⁸ 

Deuteronomy 11:13

11:13 Now, if you pay close attention ¹⁹  to my commandments that I am giving you today and love ²⁰  the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being, ²¹ 

Deuteronomy 11:22

11:22 For if you carefully observe all of these commandments ²²  I am giving you ²³  and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, ²⁴  and remain loyal to him,

Deuteronomy 11:25

11:25 Nobody will be able to resist you; the Lord your God will spread the fear and terror of you over the whole land on which you walk, just as he promised you.

Deuteronomy 11:28

11:28 and the curse if you pay no attention ²⁵  to his ²⁶  commandments and turn from the way I am setting before ²⁷  you today to pursue ²⁸  other gods you have not known.

Deuteronomy 12:11

12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing ²⁹  everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, ³⁰  and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. ³¹ 

Deuteronomy 31:12-13

31:12 Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law. 31:13 Then their children, who have not known this law, ³²  will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

[3:18]  ¹ tn Heb “your brothers, the sons of Israel.”

[3:20]  ² tn The words “you must fight” are not present in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[3:20]  ³ tn Heb “gives your brothers rest.”

[3:21]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord.” The translation uses the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

[3:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “which you are crossing over there.”

[4:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “commanding.”

[4:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 4:3.

[4:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “commanded.”

[4:34]  ⁶ tn The translation assumes the reference is to Israel’s God in which case the point is this: God’s intervention in Israel’s experience is unique in the sense that he has never intervened in such power for any other people on earth. The focus is on the uniqueness of Israel’s experience. Some understand the divine name here in a generic sense, “a god,” or “any god.” In this case God’s incomparability is the focus (cf. v. 35, where this theme is expressed).

[4:34]  ⁷ tn Heb “tried to go to take for himself.”

[4:34]  ⁸ tn Heb “by testings.” The reference here is the judgments upon Pharaoh in the form of plagues. See Deut 7:19 (cf. v. 18) and 29:3 (cf. v. 2).

[4:34]  ⁹ tn Heb “by strong hand and by outstretched arm.”

[9:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

[9:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.

[11:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “that not.” The words “I am speaking” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[11:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the Lord.” The collocation of the verbs “know” and “see” indicates that personal experience (knowing by seeing) is in view. The term translated “discipline” (KJV, ASV “chastisement”) may also be rendered “instruction,” but vv. 2b-6 indicate that the referent of the term is the various acts of divine judgment the Israelites had witnessed.

[11:2]  ¹⁰ tn The words “which revealed” have been supplied in the translation to show the logical relationship between the terms that follow and the divine judgments. In the Hebrew text the former are in apposition to the latter.

[11:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his strong hand and his stretched-out arm.”

[11:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “if hearing, you will hear.” The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute to emphasize the verbal idea. The translation renders this emphasis with the word “close.”

[11:13]  ¹⁰ tn Again, the Hebrew term אָהַב (’ahav) draws attention to the reciprocation of divine love as a condition or sign of covenant loyalty (cf. Deut 6:5).

[11:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[11:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “this commandment.” See note at Deut 5:30.

[11:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “commanding you to do it.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation and “to do it” has been left untranslated.

[11:22]  ¹² tn Heb “walk in all his ways” (so KJV, NIV); TEV “do everything he commands.”

[11:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “do not listen to,” that is, do not obey.

[11:28]  ¹² tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[11:28]  ¹³ tn Heb “am commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

[11:28]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “walk after”; NIV “by following”; NLT “by worshiping.” This is a violation of the first commandment, the most serious of the covenant violations (Deut 5:6-7).

[12:11]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”

[12:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[31:13]  ¹³ tn The phrase “this law” is not in the Hebrew text, but English style requires an object for the verb here. Other translations also supply the object which is otherwise implicit (cf. NIV “who do not know this law”; TEV “who have never heard the Law of the Lord your God”).