Deuteronomy 1:39

1:39 Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, ¹  and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, ²  will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

Deuteronomy 9:18

9:18 Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.

Deuteronomy 17:2

17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ³  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ⁴  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 17:5

17:5 you must bring to your city gates ⁵  that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death. ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 17:12

17:12 The person who pays no attention ⁷  to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:14

22:14 accusing her of impropriety ⁸  and defaming her reputation ⁹  by saying, “I married this woman but when I had sexual relations ¹⁰  with her I discovered she was not a virgin!”

Deuteronomy 22:19

22:19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ¹¹  ruined the reputation ¹²  of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 22:21-22

22:21 the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing ¹³  in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge ¹⁴  evil from among you.

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ¹⁵  a married woman ¹⁶  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ¹⁷  evil from Israel.

¹ tn Heb “would be a prey.”

² sn Do not know good from bad. This is a figure of speech called a merism (suggesting a whole by referring to its extreme opposites). Other examples are the tree of “the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen 2:9), the boy who knows enough “to reject the wrong and choose the right” (Isa 7:16; 8:4), and those who “cannot tell their right hand from their left” (Jonah 4:11). A young child is characterized by lack of knowledge.

³ tn Heb “gates.”

⁴ tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

⁵ tn Heb “gates.”

⁶ tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”

⁷ tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).

⁹ tn Heb “deeds of things”; NRSV “makes up charges against her”; NIV “slanders her.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “brings against her a bad name”; NIV “gives her a bad name.”

¹¹ tn Heb “drew near to her.” This is another Hebrew euphemism for having sexual relations.

¹¹ tn Heb “for he”; the referent (the man who made the accusation) has been specified in the translation to avoid confusion with the young woman’s father, the last-mentioned male.

¹² tn Heb “brought forth a bad name.”

¹³ tn The Hebrew term נְבָלָה (nÿvalah) means more than just something stupid. It refers to a moral lapse so serious as to jeopardize the whole covenant community (cf. Gen 34:7; Judg 19:23; 20:6, 10; Jer 29:23). See C. Pan, NIDOTTE 3:11-13. Cf. NAB “she committed a crime against Israel.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “burn.” See note on Deut 21:21.

¹⁵ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

¹⁶ tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.