Deuteronomy 4:15

The Nature of Israel’s God

4:15 Be very careful, ¹  then, because you saw no form at the time the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.

Deuteronomy 11:18

11:18 Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, ²  and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols ³  on your forehead.

Deuteronomy 19:11

19:11 However, suppose a person hates someone else ⁴  and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, ⁵  and then flees to one of these cities.

Deuteronomy 21:14

21:14 If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go ⁶  where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell ⁷  her; ⁸  you must not take advantage of ⁹  her, since you have already humiliated ¹⁰  her.

Deuteronomy 24:7

24:7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, ¹¹  and regards him as mere property ¹²  and sells him, that kidnapper ¹³  must die. In this way you will purge ¹⁴  evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 26:16

Narrative Interlude

26:16 Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul. ¹⁵ 

Deuteronomy 30:2

30:2 Then if you and your descendants ¹⁶  turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being ¹⁷  just as ¹⁸  I am commanding you today,

Deuteronomy 30:6

30:6 The Lord your God will also cleanse ¹⁹  your heart and the hearts of your descendants ²⁰  so that you may love him ²¹  with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

[4:15]  ¹ tn Heb “give great care to your souls.”

[11:18]  ² tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

[11:18]  ³ tn On the Hebrew term טוֹטָפֹת (totafot, “reminders”), cf. Deut 6:4-9.

[19:11]  ³ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

[19:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “rises against him and strikes him fatally.”

[21:14]  ⁴ sn Heb “send her off.” The Hebrew term שִׁלַּחְתָּה (shillakhtah) is a somewhat euphemistic way of referring to divorce, the matter clearly in view here (cf. Deut 22:19, 29; 24:1, 3; Jer 3:1; Mal 2:16). This passage does not have the matter of divorce as its principal objective, so it should not be understood as endorsing divorce generally. It merely makes the point that if grounds for divorce exist (see Deut 24:1-4), and then divorce ensues, the husband could in no way gain profit from it.

[21:14]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates by the words “in any case.”

[21:14]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text includes “for money.” This phrase has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[21:14]  ⁷ tn Or perhaps “must not enslave her” (cf. ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); Heb “[must not] be tyrannical over.”

[21:14]  ⁸ sn You have humiliated her. Since divorce was considered rejection, the wife subjected to it would “lose face” in addition to the already humiliating event of having become a wife by force (21:11-13). Furthermore, the Hebrew verb translated “humiliated” here (עָנָה, ’anah), commonly used to speak of rape (cf. Gen 34:2; 2 Sam 13:12, 14, 22, 32; Judg 19:24), likely has sexual overtones as well. The woman may not be enslaved or abused after the divorce because it would be double humiliation (see also E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy [NAC], 291).

[24:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “from his brothers, from the sons of Israel.” The terms “brothers” and “sons of Israel” are in apposition; the second defines the first more specifically.

[24:7]  ⁶ tn Or “and enslaves him.”

[24:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “that thief.”

[24:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the word “purge” in Deut 19:19.

[26:16]  ⁶ tn Or “mind and being”; cf. NCV “with your whole being”; TEV “obey them faithfully with all your heart.”

[30:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “children.”

[30:2]  ⁸ tn Or “heart and soul” (also in vv. 6, 10).

[30:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “according to all.”

[30:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “circumcise” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “will give you and your descendents obedient hearts.” See note on the word “cleanse” in Deut 10:16.

[30:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).

[30:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.