Deuteronomy 10:18

10:18 who justly treats ¹  the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 21:22

Disposition of a Criminal’s Remains

21:22 If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse ²  on a tree,

Deuteronomy 24:17

24:17 You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

Deuteronomy 27:19

27:19 ‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 16:18-19

Provision for Justice

16:18 You must appoint judges and civil servants ³  for each tribe in all your villages ⁴  that the Lord your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly. ⁵  16:19 You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort ⁶  the words of the righteous. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 18:3

18:3 This shall be the priests’ fair allotment ⁸  from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep – they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

Deuteronomy 32:4

32:4 As for the Rock, ⁹  his work is perfect,

for all his ways are just.

He is a reliable God who is never unjust,

he is fair ¹⁰  and upright.

Deuteronomy 19:6

19:6 Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, ¹¹  and kill him, ¹²  though this is not a capital case ¹³  since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

Deuteronomy 21:17

21:17 Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved ¹⁴  wife as firstborn and give him the double portion ¹⁵  of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power ¹⁶  – to him should go the right of the firstborn.

[10:18]  ¹ tn Or “who executes justice for” (so NAB, NRSV); NLT “gives justice to.”

[21:22]  ² tn Heb “him.”

[16:18]  ³ tn The Hebrew term וְשֹׁטְרִים (vÿshoterim), usually translated “officers” (KJV, NCV) or “officials” (NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT), derives from the verb שֹׁטֵר (shoter, “to write”). The noun became generic for all types of public officials. Here, however, it may be appositionally epexegetical to “judges,” thus resulting in the phrase, “judges, that is, civil officers,” etc. Whoever the שֹׁטְרִים are, their task here consists of rendering judgments and administering justice.

[16:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “gates.”

[16:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “with judgment of righteousness”; ASV, NASB “with righteous judgment.”

[16:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “twist, overturn”; NRSV “subverts the cause.”

[16:19]  ⁵ tn Or “innocent”; NRSV “those who are in the right”; NLT “the godly.”

[18:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “judgment”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “the priest’s due.”

[32:4]  ⁶ tc The LXX reads Θεός (qeos, “God”) for the MT’s “Rock.”

[32:4]  ⁷ tn Or “just” (KJV, NAB, NRSV, NLT) or “righteous” (NASB).

[19:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “and overtake him, for the road is long.”

[19:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “smite with respect to life,” that is, fatally.

[19:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “no judgment of death.”

[21:17]  ⁸ tn See note on the word “other” in v. 15.

[21:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “measure of two.” The Hebrew expression פִּי שְׁנַיִם (piy shÿnayim) suggests a two-thirds split; that is, the elder gets two parts and the younger one part. Cf. 2 Kgs 2:9; Zech 13:8. The practice is implicit in Isaac’s blessing of Jacob (Gen 25:31-34) and Jacob’s blessing of Ephraim (Gen 48:8-22).

[21:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “his generative power” (אוֹן, ’on; cf. HALOT 22 s.v.). Cf. NAB “the first fruits of his manhood”; NRSV “the first issue of his virility.”