Deuteronomy 19:16

19:16 If a false ¹  witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime, ² 

Deuteronomy 22:13

Purity in the Marriage Relationship

22:13 Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, ³  and then rejects ⁴  her,

Deuteronomy 22:18

22:18 The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish ⁵  him.

Deuteronomy 24:12

24:12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering. ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “violent” (חָמָס, khamas). This is a witness whose motivation from the beginning is to do harm to the accused and who, therefore, resorts to calumny and deceit. See I. Swart and C. VanDam, NIDOTTE 2:177-80.

² tn Or “rebellion.” Rebellion against God’s law is in view (cf. NAB “of a defection from the law”).

³ tn Heb “goes to her,” a Hebrew euphemistic idiom for sexual relations.

⁴ tn Heb “hate.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15. Cf. NAB “comes to dislike”; NASB “turns against”; TEV “decides he doesn’t want.”

⁵ tn Heb “discipline.”

⁷ tn Heb “may not lie down in his pledge.” What is in view is the use of clothing as guarantee for the repayment of loans, a matter already addressed elsewhere (Deut 23:19-20; 24:6; cf. Exod 22:25-26; Lev 25:35-37). Cf. NAB “you shall not sleep in the mantle he gives as a pledge”; NRSV “in the garment given you as the pledge.”