Deuteronomy 1:39

1:39 Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, ¹  and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, ²  will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

Deuteronomy 17:12

17:12 The person who pays no attention ³  to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 18:20

18:20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized ⁴  him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

Deuteronomy 20:5

20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, ⁵  “Who among you ⁶  has built a new house and not dedicated ⁷  it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else ⁸  dedicate it.

Deuteronomy 20:7

20:7 Or who among you ⁹  has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

Deuteronomy 22:22

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ¹⁰  a married woman ¹¹  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ¹²  evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 24:7

24:7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, ¹³  and regards him as mere property ¹⁴  and sells him, that kidnapper ¹⁵  must die. In this way you will purge ¹⁶  evil from among you.

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¹ tn Heb “would be a prey.”

² sn Do not know good from bad. This is a figure of speech called a merism (suggesting a whole by referring to its extreme opposites). Other examples are the tree of “the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen 2:9), the boy who knows enough “to reject the wrong and choose the right” (Isa 7:16; 8:4), and those who “cannot tell their right hand from their left” (Jonah 4:11). A young child is characterized by lack of knowledge.

³ tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).

⁴ tn Or “commanded” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

⁵ tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).

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

⁷ 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).

⁸ tn Heb “another man.”

⁹ tn Heb “Who [is] the man.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

¹¹ tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

¹² tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

¹³ tn Heb “from his brothers, from the sons of Israel.” The terms “brothers” and “sons of Israel” are in apposition; the second defines the first more specifically.

¹⁴ tn Or “and enslaves him.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “that thief.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the word “purge” in Deut 19:19.