24:16 Fathers must not be put to death for what their children 1 do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.
24:1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive 3 in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.
25:4 You must not muzzle your 4 ox when it is treading grain.
1 tn Heb “sons” (so NASB; twice in this verse). Many English versions, including the KJV, read “children” here.
2 tn Heb “his house.”
3 tn Heb “nakedness of a thing.” The Hebrew phrase עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers here to some gross sexual impropriety (see note on “indecent” in Deut 23:14). Though the term usually has to do only with indecent exposure of the genitals, it can also include such behavior as adultery (cf. Lev 18:6-18; 20:11, 17, 20-21; Ezek 22:10; 23:29; Hos 2:10).
4 tn Heb “an.” By implication this is one’s own animal.