Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 3:5 
Context3:5 All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; 1 in addition there were a great many open villages. 2
Deuteronomy 14:27
Context14:27 As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.
Deuteronomy 15:22
Context15:22 You may eat it in your villages, 3 whether you are ritually impure or clean, 4 just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.
Deuteronomy 23:16
Context23:16 Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages 5 he prefers; you must not oppress him.
1 tn Or “high walls and barred gates” (NLT); Heb “high walls, gates, and bars.” Since “bars” could be understood to mean “saloons,” the qualifying adjective “locking” has been supplied in the translation.
2 tn The Hebrew term פְּרָזִי (pÿraziy) refers to rural areas, at the most “unwalled villages” (KJV, NASB “unwalled towns”).
3 tn Heb “in your gates.”
4 tc The LXX adds ἐν σοί (en soi, “among you”) to make clear that the antecedent is the people and not the animals. That is, the people, whether ritually purified or not, may eat such defective animals.
5 tn Heb “gates.”
