Psalms 119:36

119:36 Give me a desire for your rules, ¹ 

rather than for wealth gained unjustly. ² 

Deuteronomy 2:30

2:30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our ³  God had made him obstinate ⁴  and stubborn ⁵  so that he might deliver him over to you ⁶  this very day.

Deuteronomy 29:4

29:4 But to this very day the Lord has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears! ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 29:1

Narrative Interlude

29:1 (28:69) ⁸  These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ¹⁰  I am giving ¹¹  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ¹²  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ¹³ 

Deuteronomy 22:22

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ¹⁴  a married woman ¹⁵  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ¹⁶  evil from Israel.

Isaiah 63:17

63:17 Why, Lord, do you make us stray ¹⁷  from your ways, ¹⁸ 

and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? ¹⁹ 

Return for the sake of your servants,

the tribes of your inheritance!

Matthew 6:13

6:13 And do not lead us into temptation, ²⁰  but deliver us from the evil one. ²¹ 

James 1:13

1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, ²²  and he himself tempts no one.

[119:36]  ¹ tn Heb “turn my heart to your rules.”

[119:36]  ² tn Heb “and not unjust gain.”

[2:30]  ³ tc The translation follows the LXX in reading the first person pronoun. The MT, followed by many English versions, has a second person masculine singular pronoun, “your.”

[2:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”

[2:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”

[2:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “into your hand.”

[29:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “a heart to know, eyes to see and ears to hear” (NASB similar); NAB, NRSV “a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.”

[29:1]  ⁸ sn Beginning with 29:1, the verse numbers through 29:29 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 29:1 ET = 28:69 HT, 29:2 ET = 29:1 HT, 29:3 ET = 29:2 HT, etc., through 29:29 ET = 29:28 HT. With 30:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[29:1]  ⁹ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (which some English versions substitute here for clarity, cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

[8:1]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ¹² tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[22:22]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

[22:22]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

[22:22]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

[63:17]  ¹⁷ tn Some suggest a tolerative use of the Hiphil here, “[why do] you allow us to stray?” (cf. NLT). Though the Hiphil of תָעָה (ta’ah) appears to be tolerative in Jer 50:6, elsewhere it is preferable or necessary to take it as causative. See Isa 3:12; 9:15; and 30:28, as well as Gen 20:13; 2 Kgs 21:9; Job 12:24-25; Prov 12:26; Jer 23:13, 32; Hos 4:12; Amos 2:4; Mic 3:5.

[63:17]  ¹⁸ tn This probably refers to God’s commands.

[63:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “[Why do] you harden our heart[s] so as not to fear you.” The interrogative particle is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[6:13]  ²⁰ tn Or “into a time of testing.”

[6:13]  ²¹ tc Most mss (L W Θ 0233 ˹³ 33 Ï sy sa Didache) read (though some with slight variation) ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, ἀμήν (“for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, amen”) here. The reading without this sentence, though, is attested by generally better witnesses (א B D Z 0170 ˹ pc lat mae Or). The phrase was probably composed for the liturgy of the early church and most likely was based on 1 Chr 29:11-13; a scribe probably added the phrase at this point in the text for use in public scripture reading (see TCGNT 13-14). Both external and internal evidence argue for the shorter reading.

[1:13]  ²² tn Or “God must not be tested by evil people.”