Deuteronomy 24:2

24:2 When she has left him ¹  she may go and become someone else’s wife.

Deuteronomy 20:6-7

20:6 Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it. 20:7 Or who among you ²  has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

Deuteronomy 28:30

28:30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape ³  her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

Deuteronomy 28:32

28:32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it. ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 20:5

20:5 Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, ⁵  “Who among you ⁶  has built a new house and not dedicated ⁷  it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else ⁸  dedicate it.

¹ tn Heb “his house.”

² tn Heb “Who [is] the man.”

³ tc For MT reading שָׁגַל (shagal, “ravish; violate”), the Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate presume the less violent שָׁכַב (shakhav, “lie with”). The unexpected counterpart to betrothal here favors the originality of the MT.

⁴ tn Heb “and there will be no power in your hand”; NCV “there will be nothing you can do.”

⁵ tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).

⁶ tn Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8).

⁷ tn The Hebrew term חָנַךְ (khanakh) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form (חָנֻכָּה, khanukah) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar (2 Chr 7:9) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).

⁸ tn Heb “another man.”