Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 17:5 
Context17:5 you must bring to your city gates 1 that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death. 2
Deuteronomy 19:3
Context19:3 You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent 3 of your land that the Lord your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.
Deuteronomy 19:15
Context19:15 A single witness may not testify 4 against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established 5 only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Deuteronomy 21:8
Context21:8 Do not blame 6 your people Israel whom you redeemed, O Lord, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.” 7 Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.
Deuteronomy 22:26
Context22:26 You must not do anything to the young woman – she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person 8 and murders him,
Deuteronomy 24:7
Context24:7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, 9 and regards him as mere property 10 and sells him, that kidnapper 11 must die. In this way you will purge 12 evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 25:2
Context25:2 Then, 13 if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, 14 the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves. 15
Deuteronomy 28:29
Context28:29 You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; 16 you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.
Deuteronomy 29:19
Context29:19 When such a person 17 hears the words of this oath he secretly 18 blesses himself 19 and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” 20 This will destroy 21 the watered ground with the parched. 22
1 tn Heb “gates.”
2 tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”
3 tn Heb “border.”
4 tn Heb “rise up” (likewise in v. 16).
5 tn Heb “may stand.”
6 tn Heb “Atone for.”
7 tn Heb “and do not place innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel.”
8 tn Heb “his neighbor.”
9 tn Heb “from his brothers, from the sons of Israel.” The terms “brothers” and “sons of Israel” are in apposition; the second defines the first more specifically.
10 tn Or “and enslaves him.”
11 tn Heb “that thief.”
12 tn Heb “burn.” See note on the word “purge” in Deut 19:19.
13 tn Heb “and it will be.”
14 tn Heb “if the evil one is a son of smiting.”
15 tn Heb “according to his wickedness, by number.”
16 tn Heb “you will not cause your ways to prosper.”
17 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the subject of the warning in v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
18 tn Heb “in his heart.”
19 tn Or “invokes a blessing on himself.” A formalized word of blessing is in view, the content of which appears later in the verse.
20 tn Heb “heart.”
21 tn Heb “thus destroying.” For stylistic reasons the translation begins a new sentence here.
22 tn Heb “the watered with the parched.” The word “ground” is implied. The exact meaning of the phrase is uncertain although it appears to be figurative. This appears to be a proverbial observation employing a figure of speech (a merism) suggesting totality. That is, the Israelite who violates the letter and even spirit of the covenant will harm not only himself but everything he touches – “the watered and the parched.” Cf. CEV “you will cause the rest of Israel to be punished along with you.”
