Deuteronomy 3:4

3:4 We captured all his cities at that time – there was not a town we did not take from them – sixty cities, all the region of Argob, ¹  the dominion of Og in Bashan.

Deuteronomy 4:19

4:19 When you look up ²  to the sky ³  and see the sun, moon, and stars – the whole heavenly creation ⁴  – you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, ⁵  for the Lord your God has assigned ⁶  them to all the people ⁷  of the world. ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 5:27

5:27 You go near so that you can hear everything the Lord our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he ⁹  says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”

Deuteronomy 5:29

5:29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey ¹⁰  all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 6:2

6:2 and that you may so revere the Lord your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments ¹¹  that I am giving ¹²  you – you, your children, and your grandchildren – all your lives, to prolong your days.

Deuteronomy 11:6

11:6 or what he did to Dathan and Abiram, ¹³  sons of Eliab the Reubenite, ¹⁴  when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp ¹⁵  and swallowed them, their families, ¹⁶  their tents, and all the property they brought with them. ¹⁷ 

Deuteronomy 12:2

12:2 You must by all means destroy ¹⁸  all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods – on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree. ¹⁹ 

Deuteronomy 13:16

13:16 You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza ²⁰  and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin ²¹  forever – it must never be rebuilt again.

Deuteronomy 17:19

17:19 It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.

Deuteronomy 19:9

19:9 and then you are careful to observe all these commandments ²²  I am giving ²³  you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities ²⁴  to these three.

Deuteronomy 28:1

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ²⁵  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ²⁶  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:15

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

28:15 “But if you ignore ²⁷  the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: ²⁸ 

Deuteronomy 29:2

The Exodus, Wandering, and Conquest Reviewed

29:2 Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows: “You have seen all that the Lord did ²⁹  in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land.

Deuteronomy 29:23

29:23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger. ³⁰ 

Deuteronomy 31:11

31:11 when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them ³¹  within their hearing.

[3:4]  ¹ sn Argob. This is a subdistrict of Bashan, perhaps north of the Yarmuk River. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 314.

[4:19]  ² tn Heb “lest you lift up your eyes.” In the Hebrew text vv. 16-19 are subordinated to “Be careful” in v. 15, but this makes for an unduly long sentence in English.

[4:19]  ³ tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[4:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the host of heaven.”

[4:19]  ⁵ tn In the Hebrew text the verbal sequence in v. 19 is “lest you look up…and see…and be seduced…and worship them…and serve them.” However, the first two actions are not prohibited in and of themselves. The prohibition pertains to the final three actions. The first two verbs describe actions that are logically subordinate to the following actions and can be treated as temporal or circumstantial: “lest, looking up…and seeing…, you are seduced.” See Joüon 2:635 §168.h.

[4:19]  ⁶ tn Or “allotted.”

[4:19]  ⁷ tn Or “nations.”

[4:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “under all the heaven.”

[5:27]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord our God.” See note on “He” in 5:3.

[5:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “keep” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[6:2]  ⁵ tn Here the terms are not the usual חֻקִּים (khuqqim) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim; as in v. 1) but חֻקֹּת (khuqqot, “statutes”) and מִצְוֹת (mitsot, “commandments”). It is clear that these terms are used interchangeably and that their technical precision ought not be overly stressed.

[6:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “commanding.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation.

[11:6]  ⁶ sn Dathan and Abiram. These two (along with others) had challenged Moses’ leadership in the desert with the result that the earth beneath them opened up and they and their families disappeared (Num 16:1-3, 31-35).

[11:6]  ⁷ tn Or “the descendant of Reuben”; Heb “son of Reuben.”

[11:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the midst of all Israel” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV); NASB “among all Israel.” In the Hebrew text these words appear at the end of the verse, but they are logically connected with the verbs. To make this clear the translation places the phrase after the first verb.

[11:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “their houses,” referring to all who lived in their household. Cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “households.”

[11:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and all the substance which was at their feet.”

[12:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “destroying you must destroy”; KJV “Ye shall utterly (surely ASV) destroy”; NRSV “must demolish completely.” The Hebrew infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis, which is reflected in the translation by the words “by all means.”

[12:2]  ⁸ sn Every leafy tree. This expression refers to evergreens which, because they keep their foliage throughout the year, provided apt symbolism for nature cults such as those practiced in Canaan. The deity particularly in view is Asherah, wife of the great god El, who was considered the goddess of fertility and whose worship frequently took place at shrines near or among clusters (groves) of such trees (see also Deut 7:5). See J. Hadley, NIDOTTE 1:569-70; J. DeMoor, TDOT 1:438-44.

[13:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “street.”

[13:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “mound”; NAB “a heap of ruins.” The Hebrew word תֵּל (tel) refers to this day to a ruin represented especially by a built-up mound of dirt or debris (cf. Tel Aviv, “mound of grain”).

[19:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “all this commandment.” This refers here to the entire covenant agreement of the Book of Deuteronomy as encapsulated in the Shema (Deut 6:4-5).

[19:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today.”

[19:9]  ¹¹ sn You will add three more cities. Since these are alluded to nowhere else and thus were probably never added, this must be a provision for other cities of refuge should they be needed (cf. v. 8). See P. C. Craigie, Deuteronomy (NICOT), 267.

[28:1]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

[28:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

[28:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”

[28:15]  ¹² tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”

[29:2]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text includes “to your eyes,” but this is redundant in English style (cf. the preceding “you have seen”) and is omitted in the translation.

[29:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” This construction is a hendiadys intended to intensify the emotion.

[31:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “before all Israel.”