Deuteronomy 4:22

4:22 So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that ¹  good land.

Deuteronomy 19:12

19:12 The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger ²  to die.

Deuteronomy 20:6

20:6 Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

Deuteronomy 22:25

22:25 But if the man came across ³  the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped ⁴  her, then only the rapist ⁵  must die.

Deuteronomy 32:50

32:50 You will die ⁶  on the mountain that you ascend and join your deceased ancestors, ⁷  just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor ⁸  and joined his deceased ancestors,

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¹ tn Heb “this.” The translation uses “that” to avoid confusion; earlier in the verse Moses refers to Transjordan as “this land.”

² tn The גֹאֵל הַדָּם (go’el haddam, “avenger of blood”) would ordinarily be a member of the victim’s family who, after due process of law, was invited to initiate the process of execution (cf. Num 35:16-28). See R. Hubbard, NIDOTTE 1:789-94.

³ tn Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.

⁴ tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.

⁵ tn Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”

⁶ tn In the Hebrew text the forms translated “you will die…and join” are imperatives, but the actions in view cannot really be commanded. The imperative is used here in a rhetorical, emphatic manner to indicate the certainty of Moses’ death on the mountain. On the rhetorical use of the imperative see IBHS 572 §34.4c.

⁷ tn Heb “be gathered to your people.” The same phrase occurs again later in this verse.

⁸ sn Mount Hor. See note on the name “Moserah” in Deut 10:6.