Deuteronomy 14:7

14:7 However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger.¹ (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

Deuteronomy 16:11

16:11 You shall rejoice before him² – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages,³ the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.

Deuteronomy 22:21

22:21 the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing⁴ in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge⁵ evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 22:24

22:24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated⁶ his neighbor’s fiancée;⁷ in this way you will purge⁸ evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 23:14

23:14 For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat⁹ your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent¹⁰ among you and turn away from you.

Deuteronomy 31:17

31:17 At that time¹¹ my anger will erupt against them¹² and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome¹³ them¹⁴ so that they¹⁵ will say at that time, ‘Have not these disasters¹⁶ overcome us¹⁷ because our¹⁸ God is not among us¹⁹?’

¹tn The Hebrew term שָׁפָן (shafan) may refer to the “coney” (cf. KJV, NIV) or hyrax (“rock badger,” cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).

²tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

³tn Heb “gates.”

⁴tn The Hebrew term נְבָלָה (nÿvalah) means more than just something stupid. It refers to a moral lapse so serious as to jeopardize the whole covenant community (cf. Gen 34:7; Judg 19:23; 20:6, 10; Jer 29:23). See C. Pan, NIDOTTE 3:11-13. Cf. NAB “she committed a crime against Israel.”

⁵tn Heb “burn.” See note on Deut 21:21.

⁶tn Heb “humbled.”

⁷tn Heb “wife.”

⁸tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

⁹tn Heb “give [over] your enemies.”

¹⁰tn Heb “nakedness of a thing”; NLT “any shameful thing.” The expression עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers specifically to sexual organs and, by extension, to any function associated with them. There are some aspects of human life that are so personal and private that they ought not be publicly paraded. Cultically speaking, even God is offended by such impropriety (cf. Gen 9:22-23; Lev 18:6-12, 16-19; 20:11, 17-21). See B. Seevers, NIDOTTE 3:528-30.

¹¹tn Heb “on that day.” This same expression also appears later in the verse and in v. 18.

¹²tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

¹³tn Heb “find,” “encounter.”

¹⁴tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

¹⁵tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

¹⁶tn Heb “evils.”

¹⁷tn Heb “me.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “us,” which is necessary in any case in the translation because of contemporary English style.

¹⁸tn Heb “my.”

¹⁹tn Heb “me.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “us,” which is necessary in any case in the translation because of contemporary English style.