Deuteronomy 32:50

32:50 You will die ¹  on the mountain that you ascend and join your deceased ancestors, ²  just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor ³  and joined his deceased ancestors,

Deuteronomy 5:4

5:4 The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

Deuteronomy 1:6

Events at Horeb

1:6 The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb and said, “You have stayed ⁴  in the area of this mountain long enough.

Deuteronomy 27:13

27:13 And these other tribes must stand for the curse on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

Deuteronomy 1:44

1:44 The Amorite inhabitants of that area ⁵  confronted ⁶  you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 27:4

27:4 So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal ⁸  these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.

Deuteronomy 1:7

1:7 Get up now, ⁹  resume your journey, heading for ¹⁰  the Amorite hill country, to all its areas ¹¹  including the arid country, ¹²  the highlands, the Shephelah, ¹³  the Negev, ¹⁴  and the coastal plain – all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 5:5

5:5 (I was standing between the Lord and you at that time to reveal to you the message ¹⁵  of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:

Deuteronomy 5:22

The Narrative of the Sinai Revelation and Israel’s Response

5:22 The Lord said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. ¹⁶  Then he inscribed the words ¹⁷  on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 9:9-10

9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there ¹⁸  forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. 9:10 The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger ¹⁹  of God, and on them was everything ²⁰  he ²¹  said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

Deuteronomy 10:4

10:4 The Lord ²²  then wrote on the tablets the same words, ²³  the ten commandments, ²⁴  which he ²⁵  had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he ²⁶  gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 10:10

10:10 As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The Lord listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.

[32:50]  ¹ tn In the Hebrew text the forms translated “you will die…and join” are imperatives, but the actions in view cannot really be commanded. The imperative is used here in a rhetorical, emphatic manner to indicate the certainty of Moses’ death on the mountain. On the rhetorical use of the imperative see IBHS 572 §34.4c.

[32:50]  ² tn Heb “be gathered to your people.” The same phrase occurs again later in this verse.

[32:50]  ³ sn Mount Hor. See note on the name “Moserah” in Deut 10:6.

[1:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “lived”; “dwelled.”

[1:44]  ⁷ tn Heb “in that hill country,” repeating the end of v. 43.

[1:44]  ⁸ tn Heb “came out to meet.”

[1:44]  ⁹ sn Hormah is probably Khirbet el-Meshash, 5.5 mi (9 km) west of Arad and 7.5 mi (12 km) SE of Beer Sheba. Its name is a derivative of the verb חָרָם (kharam, “to ban; to exterminate”). See Num 21:3.

[27:4]  ¹⁰ tc Smr reads “Mount Gerizim” for the MT reading “Mount Ebal” to justify the location of the Samaritan temple there in the postexilic period. This reading is patently self-serving and does not reflect the original. In the NT when the Samaritan woman of Sychar referred to “this mountain” as the place of worship for her community she obviously had Gerizim in mind (cf. John 4:20).

[1:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “turn”; NAB “Leave here”; NIV, TEV “Break camp.”

[1:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “go (to).”

[1:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “its dwelling places.”

[1:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the Arabah” (so ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[1:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “lowlands” (so TEV) or “steppes”; NIV, CEV, NLT “the western foothills.”

[1:7]  ¹⁸ sn The Hebrew term Negev means literally “desert” or “south” (so KJV, ASV). It refers to the area south of Beer Sheba and generally west of the Arabah Valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.

[5:5]  ¹⁶ tn Or “word” (so KJV, NASB, NIV); NRSV “words.”

[5:22]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and he added no more” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NLT “This was all he said at that time.”

[5:22]  ²⁰ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the words spoken by the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:9]  ²² tn Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[9:10]  ²⁵ sn The very finger of God. This is a double figure of speech (1) in which God is ascribed human features (anthropomorphism) and (2) in which a part stands for the whole (synecdoche). That is, God, as Spirit, has no literal finger nor, if he had, would he write with his finger. Rather, the sense is that God himself – not Moses in any way – was responsible for the composition of the Ten Commandments (cf. Exod 31:18; 32:16; 34:1).

[9:10]  ²⁶ tn Heb “according to all the words.”

[9:10]  ²⁷ tn Heb “the Lord” (likewise at the beginning of vv. 12, 13). See note on “he” in 9:3.

[10:4]  ²⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:4]  ²⁹ tn Heb “according to the former writing.” See note on the phrase “the same words” in v. 2.

[10:4]  ³⁰ tn Heb “ten words.” The “Ten Commandments” are known in Hebrew as the “Ten Words,” which in Greek became the “Decalogue.”

[10:4]  ³¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[10:4]  ³² tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” earlier in this verse.