Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 17:7 
Context17:7 The witnesses 1 must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people 2 are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 17:12
Context17:12 The person who pays no attention 3 to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 21:21
Context21:21 Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out 4 wickedness from among you, and all Israel 5 will hear about it and be afraid.
Deuteronomy 22:22
Context22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with 6 a married woman 7 both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge 8 evil from Israel.
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.
1 tn Heb “the hand of the witnesses.” This means the two or three witnesses are to throw the first stones (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
2 tn Heb “the hand of all the people.”
3 tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).
4 tn The Hebrew term בִּעַרְתָּה (bi’artah), here and elsewhere in such contexts (cf. Deut 13:5; 17:7, 12; 19:19; 21:9), suggests God’s anger which consumes like fire (thus בָעַר, ba’ar, “to burn”). See H. Ringgren, TDOT 2:203-4.
5 tc Some LXX traditions read הַנִּשְׁאָרִים (hannish’arim, “those who remain”) for the MT’s יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra’el, “Israel”), understandable in light of Deut 19:20. However, the more difficult reading found in the MT is more likely original.
6 tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.
7 tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”
8 tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.
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.
