Deuteronomy 5:21

5:21 You must not desire another man’s wife, nor should you crave his house, his field, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, or anything else he owns.”

Deuteronomy 6:7

6:7 and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

Deuteronomy 7:26

7:26 You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, 10  for it is an object of divine wrath.

Deuteronomy 11:19

11:19 Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, 11  as you lie down, and as you get up.

Deuteronomy 20:5

20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, 12  “Who among you 13  has built a new house and not dedicated 14  it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else 15  dedicate it.

Deuteronomy 21:13

21:13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, 16  and stay 17  in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations 18  with her and become her husband and she your wife.

Deuteronomy 24:1

24:1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive 19  in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

Deuteronomy 24:3

24:3 If the second husband rejects 20  her and then divorces her, 21  gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,

Deuteronomy 28:30

28:30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape 22  her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

tn The Hebrew verb used here (חָמַד, khamad) is different from the one translated “crave” (אָוַה, ’avah) in the next line. The former has sexual overtones (“lust” or the like; cf. Song of Sol 2:3) whereas the latter has more the idea of a desire or craving for material things.

tn Heb “your neighbor’s.” See note on the term “fellow man” in v. 19.

tn Heb “your neighbor’s.” The pronoun is used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

tn Heb “or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

tn Heb “repeat” (so NLT). If from the root I שָׁנַן (shanan), the verb means essentially to “engrave,” that is, “to teach incisively” (Piel); note NAB “Drill them into your children.” Cf. BDB 1041-42 s.v.

tn Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”

tn Heb “come under the ban” (so NASB); NRSV “be set apart for destruction.” The same phrase occurs again at the end of this verse.

sn The Hebrew word translated an object of divine wrath (חֵרֶם, kherem) refers to persons or things placed under God’s judgment, usually to the extent of their complete destruction. See note on the phrase “divine judgment” in Deut 2:34.

tn Or “like it is.”

tn This Hebrew verb (שָׁקַץ, shaqats) is essentially synonymous with the next verb (תָעַב, taav; cf. תּוֹעֵבָה, toevah; see note on the word “abhorrent” in v. 25), though its field of meaning is more limited to cultic abomination (cf. Lev 11:11, 13; Ps 22:25).

10 tn Heb “detesting you must detest and abhorring you must abhor.” Both verbs are preceded by a cognate infinitive absolute indicating emphasis.

11 tn Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”

12 tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).

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

14 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).

15 tn Heb “another man.”

16 tn Heb “she is to…remove the clothing of her captivity” (cf. NASB); NRSV “discard her captive’s garb.”

17 tn Heb “sit”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “remain.”

18 tn Heb “go unto,” a common Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations.

19 tn Heb “nakedness of a thing.” The Hebrew phrase עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers here to some gross sexual impropriety (see note on “indecent” in Deut 23:14). Though the term usually has to do only with indecent exposure of the genitals, it can also include such behavior as adultery (cf. Lev 18:6-18; 20:11, 17, 20-21; Ezek 22:10; 23:29; Hos 2:10).

20 tn Heb “hates.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15.

21 tn Heb “writes her a document of divorce.”

22 tc For MT reading שָׁגַל (shagal, “ravish; violate”), the Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate presume the less violent שָׁכַב (shakhav, “lie with”). The unexpected counterpart to betrothal here favors the originality of the MT.