Deuteronomy 3:5

3:5 All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; ¹  in addition there were a great many open villages. ² 

Deuteronomy 5:3

5:3 He ³  did not make this covenant with our ancestors ⁴  but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

Deuteronomy 11:18

11:18 Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, ⁵  and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols ⁶  on your forehead.

Deuteronomy 18:12

18:12 Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord and because of these detestable things ⁷  the Lord your God is about to drive them out ⁸  from before you.

Deuteronomy 22:5

22:5 A woman must not wear men’s clothing, ⁹  nor should a man dress up in women’s clothing, for anyone who does this is offensive ¹⁰  to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 25:3

25:3 The judge ¹¹  may sentence him to forty blows, ¹²  but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite ¹³  with contempt.

Deuteronomy 27:12

27:12 “The following tribes ¹⁴  must stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

Deuteronomy 32:17

32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,

to gods they had not known;

to new gods who had recently come along,

gods your ancestors ¹⁵  had not known about.

[3:5]  ¹ tn Or “high walls and barred gates” (NLT); Heb “high walls, gates, and bars.” Since “bars” could be understood to mean “saloons,” the qualifying adjective “locking” has been supplied in the translation.

[3:5]  ² tn The Hebrew term פְּרָזִי (pÿraziy) refers to rural areas, at the most “unwalled villages” (KJV, NASB “unwalled towns”).

[5:3]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[5:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “fathers.”

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

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

[18:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “these abhorrent things.” The repetition is emphatic. For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, the same term used earlier in the verse has been translated “detestable” here.

[18:12]  ⁸ tn The translation understands the Hebrew participial form as having an imminent future sense here.

[22:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “a man’s clothing.”

[22:5]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “offense”) speaks of anything that runs counter to ritual or moral order, especially (in the OT) to divine standards. Cross-dressing in this covenant context may suggest homosexuality, fertility cult ritual, or some other forbidden practice.

[25:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the judge) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:3]  ¹² tn Heb “Forty blows he may strike him”; however, since the judge is to witness the punishment (v. 2) it is unlikely the judge himself administered it.

[25:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “your brothers” but not limited only to an actual sibling; cf. NAB) “your kinsman”; NRSV, NLT “your neighbor.”

[27:12]  ¹³ tn The word “tribes” has been supplied here and in the following verse in the translation for clarity.

[32:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “your fathers.”