Deuteronomy 7:14

7:14 You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness ¹  among you or your livestock.

Deuteronomy 17:2

17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ²  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ³  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 22:28

22:28 Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes ⁴  her and they are discovered.

Deuteronomy 23:17

Purity in Cultic Personnel

23:17 There must never be a sacred prostitute ⁵  among the young women ⁶  of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute ⁷  among the young men ⁸  of Israel.

Deuteronomy 24:3

24:3 If the second husband rejects ⁹  her and then divorces her, ¹⁰  gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,

Deuteronomy 25:11

25:11 If two men ¹¹  get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals, ¹² 

¹ sn One of the ironies about the promises to the patriarchs concerning offspring was the characteristic barrenness of the wives of the men to whom these pledges were made (cf. Gen 11:30; 25:21; 29:31). Their affliction is in each case described by the very Hebrew word used here (עֲקָרָה, ’aqarah), an affliction that will no longer prevail in Canaan.

² tn Heb “gates.”

³ tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

³ tn Heb “lies with.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew term translated “sacred prostitute” here (קְדֵשָׁה [qÿdeshah], from קַדֵשׁ [qadesh, “holy”]; cf. NIV “shrine prostitute”; NASB “cult prostitute”; NRSV, TEV, NLT “temple prostitute”) refers to the pagan fertility cults that employed female and male prostitutes in various rituals designed to evoke agricultural and even human fecundity (cf. Gen 38:21-22; 1 Kgs 14:24; 15:12; 22:47; 2 Kgs 23:7; Hos 4:14). The Hebrew term for a regular, noncultic (i.e., “secular”) female prostitute is זוֹנָה (zonah).

⁵ tn Heb “daughters.”

⁶ tn The male cultic prostitute was called קָדֵשׁ (qadesh; see note on the phrase “sacred prostitute” earlier in this verse). The colloquial Hebrew term for a “secular” male prostitute (i.e., a sodomite) is the disparaging epithet כֶּלֶב (kelev, “dog”) which occurs in the following verse (cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB).

⁷ tn Heb “sons.”

⁵ tn Heb “hates.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15.

⁶ tn Heb “writes her a document of divorce.”

⁶ tn Heb “a man and his brother.”

⁷ tn Heb “shameful parts.” Besides the inherent indelicacy of what she has done, the woman has also threatened the progenitive capacity of the injured man. The level of specificity given this term in modern translations varies: “private parts” (NAB, NIV, CEV); “genitals” (NASB, NRSV, TEV); “sex organs” (NCV); “testicles” (NLT).