Font Size
Deuteronomy 29:20-21
New English Translation
Deuteronomy 29:20-21
New English Translation
20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger[a] will rage[b] against that man; all the curses[c] written in this scroll will fall upon him,[d] and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.[e] 21 The Lord will single him out[f] for judgment[g] from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Deuteronomy 29:20 tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.
- Deuteronomy 29:20 tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”
- Deuteronomy 29:20 tn Heb “the entire oath.”
- Deuteronomy 29:20 tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”
- Deuteronomy 29:20 tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”
- Deuteronomy 29:21 tn Heb “set him apart.”
- Deuteronomy 29:21 tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”
New English Translation (NET)
NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.