Deuteronomy 2:6

2:6 You may purchase ¹  food to eat and water to drink from them.

Deuteronomy 2:28

2:28 Sell me food for cash ²  so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. ³  Just allow me to go through on foot,

Deuteronomy 23:19

Respect for Others’ Property

23:19 You must not charge interest on a loan to your fellow Israelite, ⁴  whether on money, food, or anything else that has been loaned with interest.

Deuteronomy 12:23

12:23 However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself ⁵  – you must not eat the life with the meat!

¹ tn Heb includes “with silver.”

² tn Heb “silver.”

³ tn Heb “and water for silver give to me so that I may drink.”

³ tn Heb “to your brother” (likewise in the following verse). Since this is not limited to actual siblings, “fellow Israelite” is used in the translation (cf. NAB, NASB “countrymen”).

⁴ sn The blood is life itself. This is a figure of speech (metonymy) in which the cause or means (the blood) stands for the result or effect (life). That is, life depends upon the existence and circulation of blood, a truth known empirically but not scientifically tested and proved until the 17th century a.d. (cf. Lev 17:11).