Deuteronomy 11:8

The Abundance of the Land of Promise

11:8 Now pay attention to all the commandments ¹  I am giving ²  you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed, ³ 

Deuteronomy 17:4

17:4 When it is reported to you and you hear about it, you must investigate carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing ⁴  is being done in Israel,

Deuteronomy 23:10

23:10 If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, ⁵  he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

Deuteronomy 28:19

28:19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. ⁶ 

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¹ tn Heb “the commandment.” The singular מִצְוָה (mitsvah, “commandment”) speaks here as elsewhere of the whole corpus of covenant stipulations in Deuteronomy (cf. 6:1, 25; 7:11; 8:1).

² tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in vv. 13, 27).

³ tn Heb “which you are crossing over there to possess it.”

⁴ tn Heb “an abomination” (תּוֹעֵבָה); see note on the word “offensive” in v. 1.

⁵ tn Heb “nocturnal happening.” The Hebrew term קָרֶה (qareh) merely means “to happen” so the phrase here is euphemistic (a “night happening”) for some kind of bodily emission such as excrement or semen. Such otherwise normal physical functions rendered one ritually unclean whether accidental or not. See Lev 15:16-18; 22:4.

⁶ sn See note on the similar expression in v. 6.