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 22:22
Context22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with 3 a married woman 4 both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge 5 evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:25
Context32:25 The sword will make people childless outside,
and terror will do so inside;
they will destroy 6 both the young man and the virgin,
the infant and the gray-haired man.
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 “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.
4 tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”
5 tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.
6 tn A verb is omitted here in the Hebrew text; for purposes of English style one suitable to the context is supplied.
