Ulangan 15:2

15:2 This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; ¹  he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, ²  for it is to be recognized as “the Lord’s cancellation of debts.”

Ulangan 18:5

18:5 For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand ³  and serve in his name ⁴  permanently.

Ulangan 21:16

21:16 In the day he divides his inheritance ⁵  he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other ⁶  wife’s son who is actually the firstborn.

[15:2]  ¹ tn Heb “his neighbor,” used idiomatically to refer to another person.

[15:2]  ² tn Heb “his neighbor and his brother.” The words “his brother” may be a scribal gloss identifying “his neighbor” (on this idiom, see the preceding note) as a fellow Israelite (cf. v. 3). In this case the conjunction before “his brother” does not introduce a second category, but rather has the force of “that is.”

[18:5]  ³ tc Smr and some Greek texts add “before the Lord your God” to bring the language into line with a formula found elsewhere (Deut 10:8; 2 Chr 29:11). This reading is not likely to be original, however.

[18:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “the name of the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[21:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “when he causes his sons to inherit what is his.”

[21:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “the hated.”