Deuteronomy 4:6

4:6 So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding ¹  to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise ²  people.”

Deuteronomy 6:24

6:24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him ³  so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

Deuteronomy 10:11

10:11 Then he ⁴  said to me, “Get up, set out leading ⁵  the people so they may go and possess ⁶  the land I promised to give to their ancestors.” ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 13:17

13:17 You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. ⁸  Then the Lord will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 17:12

17:12 The person who pays no attention ⁹  to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 23:14

23:14 For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat ¹⁰  your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent ¹¹  among you and turn away from you.

Deuteronomy 23:20

23:20 You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the Lord your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.

Deuteronomy 24:7

24:7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, ¹²  and regards him as mere property ¹³  and sells him, that kidnapper ¹⁴  must die. In this way you will purge ¹⁵  evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 24:13

24:13 You must by all means ¹⁶  return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just ¹⁷  deed by the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:55

28:55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict ¹⁸  you in your villages.

Deuteronomy 30:19

30:19 Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!

Deuteronomy 32:21

32:21 They have made me jealous ¹⁹  with false gods, ²⁰ 

enraging me with their worthless gods; ²¹ 

so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, ²² 

with a nation slow to learn ²³  I will enrage them.

Deuteronomy 34:9

The Epitaph of Moses

34:9 Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had placed his hands on him; ²⁴  and the Israelites listened to him and did just what the Lord had commanded Moses.

[4:6]  ¹ tn Heb “it is wisdom and understanding.”

[4:6]  ² tn Heb “wise and understanding.”

[6:24]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord our God.” See note on the word “his” in v. 17.

[10:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 10:4.

[10:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “before” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, NRSV “at the head of.”

[10:11]  ⁷ tn After the imperative these subordinated jussive forms (with prefixed vav) indicate purpose or result.

[10:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 15, 22).

[13:17]  ⁷ tn Or “anything that has been put under the divine curse”; Heb “anything of the ban” (cf. NASB). See note on the phrase “divine judgment” in Deut 2:34.

[17:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).

[23:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “give [over] your enemies.”

[23:14]  ¹² tn Heb “nakedness of a thing”; NLT “any shameful thing.” The expression עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers specifically to sexual organs and, by extension, to any function associated with them. There are some aspects of human life that are so personal and private that they ought not be publicly paraded. Cultically speaking, even God is offended by such impropriety (cf. Gen 9:22-23; Lev 18:6-12, 16-19; 20:11, 17-21). See B. Seevers, NIDOTTE 3:528-30.

[24:7]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn Or “and enslaves him.”

[24:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “that thief.”

[24:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the word “purge” in Deut 19:19.

[24:13]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “by all means.”

[24:13]  ¹⁶ tn Or “righteous” (so NIV, NLT).

[28:55]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “besiege,” redundant with the noun “siege.”

[32:21]  ¹⁹ sn They have made me jealous. The “jealousy” of God is not a spirit of pettiness prompted by his insecurity, but righteous indignation caused by the disloyalty of his people to his covenant grace (see note on the word “God” in Deut 4:24). The jealousy of Israel, however (see next line), will be envy because of God’s lavish attention to another nation. This is an ironic wordplay. See H. Peels, NIDOTTE 3:938-39.

[32:21]  ²⁰ tn Heb “what is not a god,” or a “nondeity.”

[32:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “their empty (things).” The Hebrew term used here to refer pejoratively to the false gods is הֶבֶל (hevel, “futile” or “futility”), used frequently in Ecclesiastes (e.g., Eccl 1:1, “Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher, “Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”).

[32:21]  ²² tn Heb “what is not a people,” or a “nonpeople.” The “nonpeople” (לֹא־עָם, lo’-’am) referred to here are Gentiles who someday would become God’s people in the fullest sense (cf. Hos 1:9; 2:23).

[32:21]  ²³ tn Heb “a foolish nation” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV); NIV “a nation that has no understanding”; NLT “I will provoke their fury by blessing the foolish Gentiles.”

[34:9]  ²¹ sn See Num 27:18.