Ulangan 12:8

12:8 You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone ¹  doing what seems best to him,

Ulangan 19:19

19:19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge ²  evil from among you.

Ulangan 20:16

Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations

20:16 As for the cities of these peoples that ³  the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing ⁴  to survive.

[12:8]  ¹ tn Heb “a man.”

[19:19]  ² tn Heb “you will burn out” (בִּעַרְתָּ, bi’arta). Like a cancer, unavenged sin would infect the whole community. It must, therefore, be excised by the purging out of its perpetrators who, presumably, remained unrepentant (cf. Deut 13:6; 17:7, 12; 21:21; 22:21-22, 24; 24:7).

[20:16]  ³ tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”

[20:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “any breath.”