Genesis 17:14

17:14 Any uncircumcised male ¹  who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off ²  from his people – he has failed to carry out my requirement.” ³ 

Leviticus 26:15

26:15 if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep ⁴  all my commandments and you break my covenant –

Deuteronomy 31:16

31:16 Then the Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die, ⁵  and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they ⁶  are going. They ⁷  will reject ⁸  me and break my covenant that I have made with them. ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 31:20

31:20 For after I have brought them ¹⁰  to the land I promised to their ¹¹  ancestors – one flowing with milk and honey – and they ¹²  eat their fill ¹³  and become fat, then they ¹⁴  will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.

Isaiah 24:5

24:5 The earth is defiled by ¹⁵  its inhabitants, ¹⁶ 

for they have violated laws,

disregarded the regulation, ¹⁷ 

and broken the permanent treaty. ¹⁸ 

Jeremiah 11:10

11:10 They have gone back to the evil ways ¹⁹  of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to ²⁰  other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah ²¹  have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

Jeremiah 31:32

31:32 It will not be like the old ²²  covenant that I made with their ancestors ²³  when I delivered them ²⁴  from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” ²⁵  says the Lord. ²⁶ 

Hebrews 8:9

8:9 “It will not be like the covenant ²⁷  that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

[17:14]  ¹ tn The disjunctive clause calls attention to the “uncircumcised male” and what will happen to him.

[17:14]  ² tn Heb “that person will be cut off.” The words “that person” have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[17:14]  ³ tn Heb “he has broken my covenant.” The noun בְּרִית (bÿrit) here refers to the obligation required by God in conjunction with the covenantal agreement. For the range of meaning of the term, see the note on the word “requirement” in v. 9.

[26:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “to not do.”

[31:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “lie down with your fathers” (so NASB); NRSV “ancestors.”

[31:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they,” which is necessary in any case in the translation because of contemporary English style. The third person singular also occurs in the Hebrew text twice more in this verse, three times in v. 17, once in v. 18, five times in v. 20, and four times in v. 21. Each time it is translated as third person plural for stylistic reasons.

[31:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:16]  ⁸ tn Or “abandon” (TEV, NLT).

[31:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “their.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:20]  ¹² tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “and are satisfied.”

[31:20]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[24:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “beneath”; cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV “under”; NAB “because of.”

[24:5]  ¹⁶ sn Isa 26:21 suggests that the earth’s inhabitants defiled the earth by shedding the blood of their fellow human beings. See also Num 35:33-34, which assumes that bloodshed defiles a land.

[24:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “moved past [the?] regulation.”

[24:5]  ¹⁸ tn Or “everlasting covenant” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “the ancient covenant”; CEV “their agreement that was to last forever.”

[11:10]  ¹⁹ tn Or “They have repeated the evil actions of….”

[11:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “have walked/followed after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for the idiom.

[11:10]  ²¹ tn Heb “house of Israel and house of Judah.”

[31:32]  ²² tn The word “old” is not in the text but is implicit in the use of the word “new.” It is supplied in the translation for greater clarity.

[31:32]  ²³ tn Heb “fathers.”

[31:32]  ²⁴ tn Heb “when I took them by the hand and led them out.”

[31:32]  ²⁵ tn Or “I was their master.” See the study note on 3:14.

[31:32]  ²⁶ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[8:9]  ²⁷ tn Grk “not like the covenant,” continuing the description of v. 8b.