Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 23:14 
Context23:14 For the Lord your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat 1 your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent 2 among you and turn away from you.
Deuteronomy 25:19
Context25:19 So when the Lord your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he 3 is giving you as an inheritance, 4 you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven 5 – do not forget! 6
Deuteronomy 28:31
Context28:31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.
Deuteronomy 28:68
Context28:68 Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
1 tn Heb “give [over] your enemies.”
2 tn Heb “nakedness of a thing”; NLT “any shameful thing.” The expression עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers specifically to sexual organs and, by extension, to any function associated with them. There are some aspects of human life that are so personal and private that they ought not be publicly paraded. Cultically speaking, even God is offended by such impropriety (cf. Gen 9:22-23; Lev 18:6-12, 16-19; 20:11, 17-21). See B. Seevers, NIDOTTE 3:528-30.
3 tn Heb “ the
4 tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.”
5 tn Or “from beneath the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
6 sn This command is fulfilled in 1 Sam 15:1-33.
