Deuteronomy 4:30

4:30 In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, ¹  if you return to the Lord your God and obey him ² 

Deuteronomy 6:25

6:25 We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments ³  before the Lord our God, just as he demands.” ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 10:15

10:15 However, only to your ancestors did he ⁵  show his loving favor, ⁶  and he chose you, their descendants, ⁷  from all peoples – as is apparent today.

Deuteronomy 12:5

12:5 But you must seek only the place he ⁸  chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, ⁹  and you must go there.

Deuteronomy 13:9

13:9 Instead, you must kill him without fail! ¹⁰  Your own hand must be the first to strike him, ¹¹  and then the hands of the whole community.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Provision for Justice

16:18 You must appoint judges and civil servants ¹²  for each tribe in all your villages ¹³  that the Lord your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly. ¹⁴ 

Deuteronomy 20:18

20:18 so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship ¹⁵  their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 21:6

21:6 and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse ¹⁶  must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. ¹⁷ 

Deuteronomy 26:18

26:18 And today the Lord has declared you to be his special people (as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

Deuteronomy 32:4

32:4 As for the Rock, ¹⁸  his work is perfect,

for all his ways are just.

He is a reliable God who is never unjust,

he is fair ¹⁹  and upright.

Deuteronomy 32:27

32:27 But I fear the reaction ²⁰  of their enemies,

for ²¹  their adversaries would misunderstand

and say, “Our power is great, ²² 

and the Lord has not done all this!”’

Deuteronomy 33:12

Blessing on Benjamin

33:12 Of Benjamin he said:

The beloved of the Lord will live safely by him;

he protects him all the time,

and the Lord ²³  places him on his chest. ²⁴ 

[4:30]  ¹ sn The phrase is not used here in a technical sense for the eschaton, but rather refers to a future time when Israel will be punished for its sin and experience exile. See Deut 31:29.

[4:30]  ² tn Heb “hear his voice.” The expression is an idiom meaning “obey,” occurring in Deut 8:20; 9:23; 13:18; 21:18, 20; 26:14, 17; 27:10; 28:1-2, 15, 45, 62; 30:2, 8, 10, 20.

[6:25]  ³ tn The term “commandment” (מִצְוָה, mitsvah), here in the singular, refers to the entire body of covenant stipulations.

[6:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “as he has commanded us” (so NIV, NRSV).

[10:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

[10:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “take delight to love.” Here again the verb אָהַב (’ahav, “love”), juxtaposed with בָחַר (bakhar, “choose”), is a term in covenant contexts that describes the Lord’s initiative in calling the patriarchal ancestors to be the founders of a people special to him (cf. the note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37).

[10:15]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text includes “after them,” but it is redundant in English style and has not been included in the translation.

[12:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[12:5]  ⁸ tc Some scholars, on the basis of v. 11, emend the MT reading שִׁכְנוֹ (shikhno, “his residence”) to the infinitive construct לְשָׁכֵן (lÿshakhen, “to make [his name] to dwell”), perhaps with the 3rd person masculine singular sf לְשַׁכְּנוֹ (lÿshakÿno, “to cause it to dwell”). Though the presupposed nounשֵׁכֶן (shekhen) is nowhere else attested, the parallel here with שַׁמָּה (shammah, “there”) favors retaining the MT as it stands.

[13:9]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with the words “without fail” (cf. NIV “you must certainly put him to death”).

[13:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to put him to death,” but this is misleading in English for such an action would leave nothing for the others to do.

[16:18]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew term וְשֹׁטְרִים (vÿshoterim), usually translated “officers” (KJV, NCV) or “officials” (NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT), derives from the verb שֹׁטֵר (shoter, “to write”). The noun became generic for all types of public officials. Here, however, it may be appositionally epexegetical to “judges,” thus resulting in the phrase, “judges, that is, civil officers,” etc. Whoever the שֹׁטְרִים are, their task here consists of rendering judgments and administering justice.

[16:18]  ¹² tn Heb “gates.”

[16:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “with judgment of righteousness”; ASV, NASB “with righteous judgment.”

[20:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “to do according to all their abominations which they do for their gods.”

[21:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “slain [one].”

[21:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “wadi,” a seasonal watercourse through a valley.

[32:4]  ¹⁷ tc The LXX reads Θεός (qeos, “God”) for the MT’s “Rock.”

[32:4]  ¹⁸ tn Or “just” (KJV, NAB, NRSV, NLT) or “righteous” (NASB).

[32:27]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “anger.”

[32:27]  ²⁰ tn Heb “lest.”

[32:27]  ²¹ tn Heb “Our hand is high.” Cf. NAB “Our own hand won the victory.”

[33:12]  ²¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:12]  ²² tn Heb “between his shoulders.” This suggests the scene in John 13:23 with Jesus and the Beloved Disciple.