19:15 A single witness may not testify 2 against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established 3 only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
20:16 As for the cities of these peoples that 4 the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing 5 to survive.
1 tn Heb “was left to him.” The final phrase “to him” is redundant in English and has been left untranslated.
2 tn Heb “rise up” (likewise in v. 16).
3 tn Heb “may stand.”
4 tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”
5 tn Heb “any breath.”
6 tn Heb “set him apart.”
7 tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”