Ulangan 22:8

22:8 If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail ¹  around your roof to avoid being culpable ²  in the event someone should fall from it.

Ulangan 25:1

25:1 If controversy arises between people, ³  they should go to court for judgment. When the judges ⁴  hear the case, they shall exonerate ⁵  the innocent but condemn ⁶  the guilty.

Ulangan 20:20

20:20 However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, ⁷  and you may use it to build siege works ⁸  against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.

Ulangan 22:13

Purity in the Marriage Relationship

22:13 Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, ⁹  and then rejects ¹⁰  her,

Ulangan 2:34

2:34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them ¹¹  under divine judgment, ¹²  including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

Ulangan 3:6

3:6 We put all of these under divine judgment ¹³  just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, ¹⁴  including women and children.

Ulangan 20:17

20:17 Instead you must utterly annihilate them ¹⁵  – the Hittites, ¹⁶  Amorites, ¹⁷  Canaanites, ¹⁸  Perizzites, ¹⁹  Hivites, ²⁰  and Jebusites ²¹  – just as the Lord your God has commanded you,

Ulangan 22:16

22:16 The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected ²²  her.

Ulangan 7:2

7:2 and he ²³  delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate ²⁴  them. Make no treaty ²⁵  with them and show them no mercy!

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 ²⁶  evil from among you.

Ulangan 30:7

30:7 Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

Ulangan 32:35

32:35 I will get revenge and pay them back

at the time their foot slips;

for the day of their disaster is near,

and the impending judgment ²⁷  is rushing upon them!”

Ulangan 19:16

19:16 If a false ²⁸  witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime, ²⁹ 

Ulangan 32:9

32:9 For the Lord’s allotment is his people,

Jacob is his special possession. ³⁰ 

Ulangan 21:22

Disposition of a Criminal’s Remains

21:22 If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse ³¹  on a tree,

Ulangan 25:2

25:2 Then, ³²  if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, ³³  the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves. ³⁴ 

Ulangan 13:9

13:9 Instead, you must kill him without fail! ³⁵  Your own hand must be the first to strike him, ³⁶  and then the hands of the whole community.

Ulangan 17:6

17:6 At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

Ulangan 17:11

17:11 You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you.

Ulangan 19:15

19:15 A single witness may not testify ³⁷  against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established ³⁸  only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Ulangan 29:22

29:22 The generation to come – your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places – will see ³⁹  the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the Lord has brought on it.

Ulangan 13:5

13:5 As for that prophet or dreamer, ⁴⁰  he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the Lord your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within. ⁴¹ 

Ulangan 21:5

21:5 Then the Levitical priests ⁴²  will approach (for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name, ⁴³  and to decide ⁴⁴  every judicial verdict ⁴⁵ )

Ulangan 22:17

22:17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out ⁴⁶  before the city’s elders.

[22:8]  ¹ tn Or “a parapet” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “a battlement”; NLT “a barrier.”

[22:8]  ² tn Heb “that you not place bloodshed in your house.”

[25:1]  ³ tn Heb “men.”

[25:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the judges) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “declare to be just”; KJV, NASB “justify the righteous”; NAB, NIV “acquitting the innocent.”

[25:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “declare to be evil”; NIV “condemning the guilty (+ party NAB).”

[20:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “however, a tree which you know is not a tree for food you may destroy and cut down.”

[20:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “[an] enclosure.” The term מָצוֹר (matsor) may refer to encircling ditches or to surrounding stagings. See R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 238.

[22:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “goes to her,” a Hebrew euphemistic idiom for sexual relations.

[22:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “hate.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15. Cf. NAB “comes to dislike”; NASB “turns against”; TEV “decides he doesn’t want.”

[2:34]  ¹¹ tn Heb “every city of men.” This apparently identifies the cities as inhabited.

[2:34]  ¹² tn Heb “under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). The verb employed is חָרַם (kharam, usually in the Hiphil) and the associated noun is חֵרֶם (kherem). See J. Naudé, NIDOTTE, 2:276-77, and, for a more thorough discussion, Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible, 28-77.

[2:34]  sn Divine judgment refers to God’s designation of certain persons, places, and things as objects of his special wrath and judgment because, in his omniscience, he knows them to be impure and hopelessly unrepentant.

[3:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “we put them under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). See note at 2:34.

[3:6]  sn The divine curse. See note on this phrase in Deut 2:34.

[3:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “city of men.”

[20:17]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “utterly.” Cf. CEV “completely wipe out.”

[20:17]  sn The Hebrew verb refers to placing persons or things so evil and/or impure as to be irredeemable under God’s judgment, usually to the extent of their complete destruction. See also the note on the phrase “the divine judgment” in Deut 2:34.

[20:17]  ¹⁶ sn Hittite. The center of Hittite power was in Anatolia (central modern Turkey). In the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 b.c.) they were at their zenith, establishing outposts and colonies near and far. Some elements were obviously in Canaan at the time of the Conquest (1400-1350 b.c.).

[20:17]  ¹⁷ sn Amorite. Originally from the upper Euphrates region (Amurru), the Amorites appear to have migrated into Canaan beginning in 2200 b.c. or thereabouts.

[20:17]  ¹⁸ sn Canaanite. These were the indigenous peoples of the land of Palestine, going back to the beginning of recorded history (ca. 3000 b.c.). The OT identifies them as descendants of Ham (Gen 10:6), the only Hamites to have settled north and east of Egypt.

[20:17]  ¹⁹ sn Perizzite. This probably refers to a subgroup of Canaanites (Gen 13:7; 34:30).

[20:17]  ²⁰ sn Hivite. These are usually thought to be the same as the Hurrians, a people well-known in ancient Near Eastern texts. They are likely identical to the Horites (see note on “Horites” in Deut 2:12).

[20:17]  ²¹ tc The LXX adds “Girgashites” here at the end of the list in order to list the full (and usual) complement of seven (see note on “seven” in Deut 7:1).

[20:17]  sn Jebusite. These people inhabited the hill country, particularly in and about Jerusalem (cf. Num 13:29; Josh 15:8; 2 Sam 5:6; 24:16).

[22:16]  ²² tn Heb “hated.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15.

[7:2]  ²³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[7:2]  ²⁴ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive absolute before the finite verb emphasizes the statement. The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. Cf. ASV “shalt (must NRSV) utterly destroy them”; CEV “must destroy them without mercy.”

[7:2]  ²⁵ tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”

[19:19]  ²⁶ 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).

[32:35]  ²⁷ tn Heb “prepared things,” “impending things.” See BDB 800 s.v. עָתִיד.

[19:16]  ²⁸ tn Heb “violent” (חָמָס, khamas). This is a witness whose motivation from the beginning is to do harm to the accused and who, therefore, resorts to calumny and deceit. See I. Swart and C. VanDam, NIDOTTE 2:177-80.

[19:16]  ²⁹ tn Or “rebellion.” Rebellion against God’s law is in view (cf. NAB “of a defection from the law”).

[32:9]  ³⁰ tc Heb “the portion of his inheritance.” The LXX and Smr add “Israel” and BHS suggests the reconstruction: “The Lord’s allotment is Jacob, the portion of his inheritance is Israel” (cf. NAB). While providing good parallelism, it destroys a fine chiastic structure: “allotment” (a), “his people” (b), “Jacob (b’), and “inheritance” (a’).

[21:22]  ³¹ tn Heb “him.”

[25:2]  ³² tn Heb “and it will be.”

[25:2]  ³³ tn Heb “if the evil one is a son of smiting.”

[25:2]  ³⁴ tn Heb “according to his wickedness, by number.”

[13:9]  ³⁵ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with the words “without fail” (cf. NIV “you must certainly put him to death”).

[13:9]  ³⁶ tn Heb “to put him to death,” but this is misleading in English for such an action would leave nothing for the others to do.

[19:15]  ³⁷ tn Heb “rise up” (likewise in v. 16).

[19:15]  ³⁸ tn Heb “may stand.”

[29:22]  ³⁹ tn Heb “will say and see.” One expects a quotation to appear, but it seems to be omitted. To avoid confusion in the translation, the verb “will say” is omitted.

[13:5]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

[13:5]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “your midst” (so NAB, NRSV). The severity of the judgment here (i.e., capital punishment) is because of the severity of the sin, namely, high treason against the Great King. Idolatry is a violation of the first two commandments (Deut 5:6-10) as well as the spirit and intent of the Shema (Deut 6:4-5).

[21:5]  ⁴² tn Heb “the priests, the sons of Levi.”

[21:5]  ⁴³ tn Heb “in the name of the Lord.” See note on Deut 10:8. The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[21:5]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “by their mouth.”

[21:5]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “every controversy and every blow.”

[22:17]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “they will spread the garment.”