Ulangan 1:22

1:22 So all of you approached me and said, “Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”

Ulangan 5:15

5:15 Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there by strength and power. ¹  That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to observe ²  the Sabbath day.

Ulangan 5:31

5:31 But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, ³  statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them.” ⁴ 

Ulangan 13:17

13:17 You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. ⁵  Then the Lord will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.

Ulangan 20:19

20:19 If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, ⁶  you must not chop down its trees, ⁷  for you may eat fruit ⁸  from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it! ⁹ 

Ulangan 22:21

22:21 the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing ¹⁰  in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge ¹¹  evil from among you.

Ulangan 22:24-25

22:24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated ¹²  his neighbor’s fiancée; ¹³  in this way you will purge ¹⁴  evil from among you. 22:25 But if the man came across ¹⁵  the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped ¹⁶  her, then only the rapist ¹⁷  must die.

Ulangan 23:14

23:14 For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat ¹⁸  your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent ¹⁹  among you and turn away from you.

Ulangan 25:9

25:9 then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. ²⁰  She will then respond, “Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother’s family line!” ²¹ 

[5:15]  ¹ tn Heb “by a strong hand and an outstretched arm,” the hand and arm symbolizing divine activity and strength. Cf. NLT “with amazing power and mighty deeds.”

[5:15]  ² tn Or “keep” (so KJV, NRSV).

[5:31]  ³ tn Heb “commandment.” The MT actually has the singular (הַמִּצְוָה, hammitsvah), suggesting perhaps that the following terms (חֻקִּים [khuqqim] and מִשְׁפָּטִים [mishpatim]) are in epexegetical apposition to “commandment.” That is, the phrase could be translated “the entire command, namely, the statutes and ordinances.” This would essentially make מִצְוָה (mitsvah) synonymous with תּוֹרָה (torah), the usual term for the whole collection of law.

[5:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “to possess it” (so KJV, ASV); NLT “as their inheritance.”

[13:17]  ⁵ 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.

[20:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “to fight against it to capture it.”

[20:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “you must not destroy its trees by chopping them with an iron” (i.e., an ax).

[20:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “you may eat from them.” The direct object is not expressed; the word “fruit” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[20:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “to go before you in siege.”

[22:21]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term נְבָלָה (nÿvalah) means more than just something stupid. It refers to a moral lapse so serious as to jeopardize the whole covenant community (cf. Gen 34:7; Judg 19:23; 20:6, 10; Jer 29:23). See C. Pan, NIDOTTE 3:11-13. Cf. NAB “she committed a crime against Israel.”

[22:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “burn.” See note on Deut 21:21.

[22:24]  ¹² tn Heb “humbled.”

[22:24]  ¹³ tn Heb “wife.”

[22:24]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

[22:25]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.

[22:25]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.

[22:25]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”

[23:14]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “give [over] your enemies.”

[23:14]  ¹⁹ 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.

[25:9]  ²⁰ sn The removal of the sandal was likely symbolic of the relinquishment by the man of any claim to his dead brother’s estate since the sandal was associated with the soil or land (cf. Ruth 4:7-8). Spitting in the face was a sign of utmost disgust or disdain, an emotion the rejected widow would feel toward her uncooperative brother-in-law (cf. Num 12:14; Lev 15:8). See W. Bailey, NIDOTTE 2:544.

[25:9]  ²¹ tn Heb “build the house of his brother”; TEV “refuses to give his brother a descendant”; NLT “refuses to raise up a son for his brother.”