Ulangan 6:15
Konteks6:15 for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land. 1
Ulangan 14:8
Konteks14:8 Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, 2 it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.
Ulangan 18:14
Konteks18:14 Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.
Ulangan 19:21
Konteks19:21 You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot. 3
[6:15] 1 tn Heb “lest the anger of the
[14:8] 2 tc The MT lacks (probably by haplography) the phrase וְשֹׁסַע שֶׁסַע פַּרְסָה (vÿshosa’ shesa’ parsah, “and is clovenfooted,” i.e., “has parted hooves”), a phrase found in the otherwise exact parallel in Lev 11:7. The LXX and Smr attest the longer reading here. The meaning is, however, clear without it.
[19:21] 3 sn This kind of justice is commonly called lex talionis or “measure for measure” (cf. Exod 21:23-25; Lev 24:19-20). It is likely that it is the principle that is important and not always a strict application. That is, the punishment should fit the crime and it may do so by the payment of fines or other suitable and equitable compensation (cf. Exod 22:21; Num 35:31). See T. S. Frymer-Kensky, “Tit for Tat: The Principle of Equal Retribution in Near Eastern and Biblical Law,” BA 43 (1980): 230-34.