Deuteronomy 4:3

4:3 You have witnessed what the Lord did at Baal Peor, ¹  how he ²  eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor. ³ 

Deuteronomy 17:12

17:12 The person who pays no attention ⁴  to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

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.

Deuteronomy 20:8

20:8 In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s ⁹  heart as fearful ¹⁰  as his own.”

Deuteronomy 22:22

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ¹¹  a married woman ¹²  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ¹³  evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:29

22:29 The man who has raped her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has violated her; he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 25:7

25:7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she ¹⁴  must go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”

¹ tc The LXX and Syriac read “to Baal Peor,” that is, the god worshiped at that place; see note on the name “Beth Peor” in Deut 3:29.

² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

³ tn Or “followed the Baal of Peor” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV), referring to the pagan god Baal.

⁴ tn Heb “who acts presumptuously not to listen” (cf. NASB).

⁷ tn Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9).

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

⁹ 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).

¹⁰ tn Heb “another man.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “his brother’s.”

¹¹ tn Heb “melted.”

¹³ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

¹⁴ tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

¹⁶ tn Heb “want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister in law.” In the second instance the pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation to avoid redundancy.