Ulangan 16:16

16:16 Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him ¹  empty-handed.

Ulangan 20:5

20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, ²  “Who among you ³  has built a new house and not dedicated ⁴  it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else ⁵  dedicate it.

Ulangan 24:4

24:4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry ⁶  her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. ⁷  You must not bring guilt on the land ⁸  which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

[16:16]  ¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[20:5]  ² tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).

[20:5]  ³ tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).

[20:5]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term חָנַךְ (khanakh) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form (חָנֻכָּה, khanukah) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar (2 Chr 7:9) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).

[20:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “another man.”

[24:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”

[24:4]  ⁷ sn The issue here is not divorce and its grounds per se but prohibition of remarriage to a mate whom one has previously divorced.

[24:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).