Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 22:13 
Context22:13 Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, 1 and then rejects 2 her,
Deuteronomy 22:18
Context22:18 The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish 3 him.
Deuteronomy 23:1
Context23:1 A man with crushed 4 or severed genitals 5 may not enter the assembly of the Lord. 6
Deuteronomy 33:1
Context33:1 This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.
1 tn Heb “goes to her,” a Hebrew euphemistic idiom for sexual relations.
2 tn Heb “hate.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15. Cf. NAB “comes to dislike”; NASB “turns against”; TEV “decides he doesn’t want.”
3 tn Heb “discipline.”
4 tn Heb “bruised by crushing,” which many English versions take to refer to crushed testicles (NAB, NRSV, NLT); TEV “who has been castrated.”
5 tn Heb “cut off with respect to the penis”; KJV, ASV “hath his privy member cut off”; English versions vary in their degree of euphemism here; cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV, NLT “penis”; NASB “male organ”; NCV “sex organ”; CEV “private parts”; NIV “emasculated by crushing or cutting.”
6 sn The Hebrew term translated “assembly” (קָהָל, qahal) does not refer here to the nation as such but to the formal services of the tabernacle or temple. Since emasculated or other sexually abnormal persons were commonly associated with pagan temple personnel, the thrust here may be primarily polemical in intent. One should not read into this anything having to do with the mentally and physically handicapped as fit to participate in the life and ministry of the church.
