Ulangan 21:7

21:7 Then they must proclaim, “Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we ¹  witnessed the crime. ² 

Ulangan 22:13-14

Purity in the Marriage Relationship

22:13 Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, ³  and then rejects ⁴  her, 22:14 accusing her of impropriety ⁵  and defaming her reputation ⁶  by saying, “I married this woman but when I had sexual relations ⁷  with her I discovered she was not a virgin!”

Ulangan 28:41

28:41 You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

Ulangan 28:44

28:44 They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!

[21:7]  ¹ tn Heb “our eyes.” This is a figure of speech known as synecdoche in which the part (the eyes) is put for the whole (the entire person).

[21:7]  ² tn Heb “seen”; the implied object (the crime committed) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:13]  ³ tn Heb “goes to her,” a Hebrew euphemistic idiom for sexual relations.

[22:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “hate.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15. Cf. NAB “comes to dislike”; NASB “turns against”; TEV “decides he doesn’t want.”

[22:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “deeds of things”; NRSV “makes up charges against her”; NIV “slanders her.”

[22:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “brings against her a bad name”; NIV “gives her a bad name.”

[22:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “drew near to her.” This is another Hebrew euphemism for having sexual relations.