Deuteronomy 17:15

17:15 you must select without fail ¹  a king whom the Lord your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens ²  you must appoint a king – you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites. ³ 

Deuteronomy 17:2

17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ⁴  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ⁵  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 21:6

21:6 and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse ⁶  must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. ⁷ 

¹ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, indicated in the translation by the words “without fail.”

² tn Heb “your brothers,” but not referring to siblings (cf. NIV “your brother Israelites”; NLT “a fellow Israelite”). The same phrase also occurs in v. 20.

³ tn Heb “your brothers.” See the preceding note on “fellow citizens.”

⁴ tn Heb “gates.”

⁵ tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

⁶ tn Heb “slain [one].”

⁷ tn Heb “wadi,” a seasonal watercourse through a valley.