Deuteronomy 27:24

27:24 ‘Cursed is the one who kills ¹  his neighbor in private.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 25:3

25:3 The judge ²  may sentence him to forty blows, ³  but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite ⁴  with contempt.

Deuteronomy 28:61

28:61 Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, ⁵  until you have perished.

¹ tn Or “strikes down” (so NRSV).

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the judge) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “Forty blows he may strike him”; however, since the judge is to witness the punishment (v. 2) it is unlikely the judge himself administered it.

⁴ tn Heb “your brothers” but not limited only to an actual sibling; cf. NAB) “your kinsman”; NRSV, NLT “your neighbor.”

³ tn The Hebrew term תּוֹרָה (torah) can refer either (1) to the whole Pentateuch or, more likely, (2) to the book of Deuteronomy or even (3) only to this curse section of the covenant text. “Scroll” better reflects the actual document, since “book” conveys the notion of a bound book with pages to the modern English reader. Cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “the book of this law”; NIV, NLT “this Book of the Law”; TEV “this book of God’s laws and teachings.”