Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 3:18 
Context3:18 At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites 1 equipped for battle.
Deuteronomy 20:5
Context20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, 2 “Who among you 3 has built a new house and not dedicated 4 it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else 5 dedicate it.
Deuteronomy 20:7
Context20:7 Or who among you 6 has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”
1 tn Heb “your brothers, the sons of Israel.”
2 tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).
3 tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).
4 tn The Hebrew term חָנַךְ (khanakh) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form (חָנֻכָּה, khanukah) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar (2 Chr 7:9) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).
5 tn Heb “another man.”
6 tn Heb “Who [is] the man.”
