Deuteronomy 8:13

8:13 when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,

Deuteronomy 17:17

17:17 Furthermore, he must not marry many ¹  wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.

Deuteronomy 1:10

1:10 The Lord your God has increased your population ²  to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky. ³ 

Deuteronomy 30:5

30:5 Then he ⁴  will bring you to the land your ancestors ⁵  possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 17:16

17:16 Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, ⁶  for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.

Deuteronomy 3:5

3:5 All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; ⁷  in addition there were a great many open villages. ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 7:22

7:22 He, ⁹  the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.

Deuteronomy 11:21

11:21 so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself. ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 6:3

6:3 Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number ¹¹  – as the Lord, God of your ancestors, ¹²  said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 7:13

7:13 He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, ¹³  with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ¹⁴  I am giving ¹⁵  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ¹⁶  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ¹⁷ 

Deuteronomy 13:17

13:17 You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. ¹⁸  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 14:24

14:24 When he ¹⁹  blesses you, if the ²⁰  place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

Deuteronomy 19:6

19:6 Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, ²¹  and kill him, ²²  though this is not a capital case ²³  since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

Deuteronomy 28:63

28:63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he ²⁴  will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

Deuteronomy 30:16

30:16 What ²⁵  I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess. ²⁶ 

[17:17]  ¹ tn Heb “must not multiply” (cf. KJV, NASB); NLT “must not take many.”

[1:10]  ¹ tn Heb “multiplied you.”

[1:10]  ² tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[30:5]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.

[30:5]  ² tn Heb “fathers” (also later in this verse and in vv. 9, 20).

[17:16]  ¹ tn Heb “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV).

[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”).

[7:22]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 7:19.

[11:21]  ¹ tn Heb “like the days of the heavens upon the earth,” that is, forever.

[6:3]  ¹ tn Heb “may multiply greatly” (so NASB, NRSV); the words “in number” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[6:3]  ² tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 10, 18, 23).

[7:13]  ¹ tn Heb “will bless the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[8:1]  ¹ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

[8:1]  ² tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ³ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[13:17]  ¹ 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.

[14:24]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “He” in 14:2.

[14:24]  ² tn The Hebrew text includes “way is so far from you that you are unable to carry it because the.” These words have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because they are redundant.

[19:6]  ¹ tn Heb “and overtake him, for the road is long.”

[19:6]  ² tn Heb “smite with respect to life,” that is, fatally.

[19:6]  ³ tn Heb “no judgment of death.”

[28:63]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[30:16]  ¹ tc A number of LXX mss insert before this verse, “if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,” thus translating אֲשֶׁר (’asher) as “which” and the rest as “I am commanding you today, to love,” etc., “then you will live,” etc.

[30:16]  ² tn Heb “which you are going there to possess it.” This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.