Deuteronomy 21:12

21:12 you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, ¹  trim her nails,

Deuteronomy 23:11

23:11 When evening arrives he must wash himself with water and then at sunset he may reenter the camp.

Deuteronomy 3:16

3:16 To the Reubenites and Gadites I allocated the territory extending from Gilead as far as Wadi Arnon (the exact middle of the wadi was a boundary) all the way to the Wadi Jabbok, the Ammonite border.

Deuteronomy 13:16

13:16 You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza ²  and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin ³  forever – it must never be rebuilt again.

Deuteronomy 22:2

22:2 If the owner ⁴  does not live ⁵  near you or you do not know who the owner is, ⁶  then you must corral the animal ⁷  at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.

Deuteronomy 23:10

23:10 If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, ⁸  he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

¹ sn This requirement for the woman to shave her head may symbolize the putting away of the old life and customs in preparation for being numbered among the people of the Lord. The same is true for the two following requirements.

² tn Heb “street.”

³ tn Heb “mound”; NAB “a heap of ruins.” The Hebrew word תֵּל (tel) refers to this day to a ruin represented especially by a built-up mound of dirt or debris (cf. Tel Aviv, “mound of grain”).

³ tn Heb “your brother” (also later in this verse).

⁴ tn Heb “is not.” The idea of “residing” is implied.

⁵ tn Heb “and you do not know him.”

⁶ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the ox or sheep mentioned in v. 1) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “nocturnal happening.” The Hebrew term קָרֶה (qareh) merely means “to happen” so the phrase here is euphemistic (a “night happening”) for some kind of bodily emission such as excrement or semen. Such otherwise normal physical functions rendered one ritually unclean whether accidental or not. See Lev 15:16-18; 22:4.