Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 10:2 
Context10:2 I will write on the tablets the same words 1 that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”
Deuteronomy 13:9
Context13:9 Instead, you must kill him without fail! 2 Your own hand must be the first to strike him, 3 and then the hands of the whole community.
Deuteronomy 25:6
Context25:6 Then 4 the first son 5 she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.
1 sn The same words. The care with which the replacement copy must be made underscores the importance of verbal precision in relaying the
2 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with the words “without fail” (cf. NIV “you must certainly put him to death”).
3 tn Heb “to put him to death,” but this is misleading in English for such an action would leave nothing for the others to do.
4 tn Heb “and it will be that.”
5 tn Heb “the firstborn.” This refers to the oldest male child.
