Ulangan 4:9

Reminder of the Horeb Covenant

4:9 Again, however, pay very careful attention, ¹  lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.

Ulangan 15:9

15:9 Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude ²  be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite ³  and you do not lend ⁴  him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you and you will be regarded as having sinned. ⁵ 

Ulangan 21:14

21:14 If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go ⁶  where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell ⁷  her; ⁸  you must not take advantage of ⁹  her, since you have already humiliated ¹⁰  her.

Ulangan 23:14

23:14 For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat ¹¹  your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent ¹²  among you and turn away from you.

[4:9]  ¹ tn Heb “watch yourself and watch your soul carefully.”

[15:9]  ² tn Heb “your eye.”

[15:9]  ³ tn Heb “your needy brother.”

[15:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “give” (likewise in v. 10).

[15:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “it will be a sin to you.”

[21:14]  ⁶ sn Heb “send her off.” The Hebrew term שִׁלַּחְתָּה (shillakhtah) is a somewhat euphemistic way of referring to divorce, the matter clearly in view here (cf. Deut 22:19, 29; 24:1, 3; Jer 3:1; Mal 2:16). This passage does not have the matter of divorce as its principal objective, so it should not be understood as endorsing divorce generally. It merely makes the point that if grounds for divorce exist (see Deut 24:1-4), and then divorce ensues, the husband could in no way gain profit from it.

[21:14]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates by the words “in any case.”

[21:14]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text includes “for money.” This phrase has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[21:14]  ⁹ tn Or perhaps “must not enslave her” (cf. ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); Heb “[must not] be tyrannical over.”

[21:14]  ¹⁰ sn You have humiliated her. Since divorce was considered rejection, the wife subjected to it would “lose face” in addition to the already humiliating event of having become a wife by force (21:11-13). Furthermore, the Hebrew verb translated “humiliated” here (עָנָה, ’anah), commonly used to speak of rape (cf. Gen 34:2; 2 Sam 13:12, 14, 22, 32; Judg 19:24), likely has sexual overtones as well. The woman may not be enslaved or abused after the divorce because it would be double humiliation (see also E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy [NAC], 291).

[23:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “give [over] your enemies.”

[23:14]  ¹² 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.