Deuteronomy 7:13
7:13 He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, 1 with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.
Deuteronomy 14:21
14:21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages 2 and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. 3
Deuteronomy 22:6
22:6 If you happen to notice a bird’s nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them, 4 you must not take the mother from the young. 5
Deuteronomy 22:19
22:19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation 6 ruined the reputation 7 of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
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 thing 8 in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge 9 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 violated 10 his neighbor’s fiancée; 11 in this way you will purge 12 evil from among you.
1 tn Heb “will bless the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “gates” (also in vv. 27, 28, 29).
3 sn Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. This strange prohibition – one whose rationale is unclear but probably related to pagan ritual – may seem out of place here but actually is not for the following reasons: (1) the passage as a whole opens with a prohibition against heathen mourning rites (i.e., death, vv. 1-2) and closes with what appear to be birth and infancy rites. (2) In the other two places where the stipulation occurs (Exod 23:19 and Exod 34:26) it similarly concludes major sections. (3) Whatever the practice signified it clearly was abhorrent to the Lord and fittingly concludes the topic of various breaches of purity and holiness as represented by the ingestion of unclean animals (vv. 3-21). See C. M. Carmichael, “On Separating Life and Death: An Explanation of Some Biblical Laws,” HTR 69 (1976): 1-7; J. Milgrom, “You Shall Not Boil a Kid In Its Mother’s Milk,” BRev 1 (1985): 48-55; R. J. Ratner and B. Zuckerman, “In Rereading the ‘Kid in Milk’ Inscriptions,” BRev 1 (1985): 56-58; and M. Haran, “Seething a Kid in its Mother’s Milk,” JJS 30 (1979): 23-35.
4 tn Heb “and the mother sitting upon the chicks or the eggs.”
5 tn Heb “sons,” used here in a generic sense for offspring.
6 tn Heb “for he”; the referent (the man who made the accusation) has been specified in the translation to avoid confusion with the young woman’s father, the last-mentioned male.
7 tn Heb “brought forth a bad name.”
8 tn 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.”
9 tn Heb “burn.” See note on Deut 21:21.
10 tn Heb “humbled.”
11 tn Heb “wife.”
12 tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.